A storm - a REAL storm passed through the area last night- I guess these are not that unusual but this was a damaging one. The center was NW of Brisbane so we only caught the edge of it. We got about 3" rain in 17 hrs, but 50 km up N there were tornado-like winds, flooding, roofs ripped off. Its been raining for 3 days.
The damage claims are at $75 Mill so far, power is out for a few thousand people.
Up at the Hinze Dam (our water supply) they have had 600 mm (about 2 feet) more rain this year to date than last year.
Here comes the lightning - again. I have never heard anything like this - it's overhead cloud-to- cloud but it is really concussive - just one enormous BOOM that reverberates, and reverberates, and reverberates, and reverberates just like you hear in the mountains and canyons of the SW. But there are no hills around for the sound to reflect back from. This thunder sounds just like those 4th of July aerial bombs at Folsom field? The ones that rattle your innards? Except, much, much louder.
Molly is not twigged at all. Nancy and I on the other hand... have unplugged everything and are going to go hide in bed - maybe under it.
Fairly intense rain on the way:
"Rainfalls of 80 to 100mm per hour have recently occurred in the Gatton and Rosewood areas." (that is 3-4 inches/hr)
There are locusts swarming in New South Wales.
Flooding in Queensland
Drought in Western Australia
Maybe Tina 'Palin' Fey is right:
"we don’t know if this climate change hoozie-what's-it is man made or if it’s just a natural part of the ‘End of Days."
The Bureau of meteorology warnings map is at the top of the page. The red thing is bad ju-ju - and its coming our way.....
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