Floods in Oz

Originally Posted by MattCollins

Lozzo, if it makes you feel any better...I can't see why anyone would move there by choice. It is called "Port A-gutta" for a reason. It is mainly to do with the locals, but the place also stinks. It's not the normal salt air smell, but more like all of the trash, dirty storm water and waste water from sewerage plants on the gulf gets pushed up there and mixed in with high concentrations of salt.

I'd heard this before, and it makes me feel a bit happier knowing she lives in a place like that and I live in sweet smelling civilisation.

[Biker Biggles]

OK so you Aussies are not impressed by my "pipeline" nonsense ideas cos you now have too much rain.How about we give you some ashes to dry up the water?

[Littlepeahead]

Don't give the Aussies any money, they'd only go and spend it on buying a decent cricket team. I hear from the England and Wales Cricket Board that such a team can now be purchased from a variety of sources in South Africa.

[MisterTommyH]

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Don't give the Aussies any money, they'd only go and spend it on buying a decent cricket team. I hear from the England and Wales Cricket Board that such a team can now be purchased from a variety of sources in South Africa.

Originally Posted by Littlepeahead

Don't give the Aussies any money, they'd only go and spend it on buying a decent cricket team. I hear from the England and Wales Cricket Board that such a team can now be purchased from a variety of sources in South Africa.

The winner! I like this girl.

[ixlr8]

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

OK so you Aussies are not impressed by my "pipeline" nonsense ideas cos you now have too much rain.How about we give you some ashes to dry up the water?

Oh, yes we are! Our genius recently-ousted State government spent $1 odd billion on a pipeline from the parched north of the state to the much wetter coastal south. Needless to say, not a drop has passed its portals.
And, we felt it only kindly to allow some valued ashes to be kept for a while longer by our former colonists. All heart we are. (You didn't think we could play that badly if we weren't trying to, did you?)

[Biker Biggles]

Dont mention the cricket
I mentioned it once and nearly got away with it.

Id wait a month or two and see how Casey does in MotoGP,then start waltzing with that Matty girl.

It has all started again...

Category 5 tropical cyclone Yasi with a 200mi diameter and wind speeds in excess of 180mph is bearing down on the Queensland coast. Rainfall is expected to be in the region of 1000mm as the cyclone passes.
The expected track is SW to WSW once it makes landfall and is expected to diminish to a category 1 storm by the time it hits the NT border with the evacuation of one community in the border area already under way where 600mm rainfalls and severe flooding is expected.

This will be the biggest cyclone recorded in Australia's history.

At home I am expecting storm force winds and flooding rain over the weekend.

Interesting times ahead.

holly crap...

Thoughts and prayers for all those in affected areas that all stay safe,

[flymo]

good luck Matt, I hope you and your family are safe. My mum is further down the coast so not expecting too much bother there. Just to put it into perspective, the Queensland coast is many many times longer than the entire UK.