Re: OT: A little local flooding to report

[Guest guest]

, Boy what a soggy mess you

have down-under!!!!

We're having blue skies and weather more like our middle of Summer

and not like Spring!!! 80 degrees since Monday..Warm and not too

humid yet!!

I messed up my back a little by doing just a bit more planting in the

pots

on my deck than I should have on Sunday. I've been doing loads of

stretches

and icing down and going to the chiropractor several days this week!!!

I know I should be more careful but when I'm in the dirt I just forget

that I'm supposed

to do less at each session...didn't listen to myself!!!No big surprise

there!

Z fibriotic NSIP/05

Z 65, fibriotic NSIP/05/PA

And

“mild” PH/10/07 and Reynaud’s too!!

No,

NSIP was not self-inflicted…I never smoked!

Potter,

reader,carousel lover and MomMom to Darah and Sara

“I’m

gonna be iron like a lion in Zion” Bob Marley

Vinca

Minor-periwinkle is my flower

wrote:

Lismore is turning on a

Flood today after all the cyclonic rain/wind of the last 2 days added

to the already saturated ground from the preceeding 'Big Wet'

Season. Hubby is having an enforced day off work...downtown Lismore is

empty waiting to see if the Flood Levee breaks its banks.....it'll

go very close.

I had to stay up until

about 2 am this morning keeping watch on my 3 old fireplaces that just

run with water when we get this sort of weather. I lay newspapers on

the bottom bricks & have several litter trays lined up on a rigged

up scaffolding inside ...I emptied 6 buckets of water from them last

night! I'm nearly run out of old newspapers too so the rain had better

CEASE forthwith!

It's a delicate

decanting process ...I tip each litter tray, one at a time into the big

bucket....fun with one hand......huiby had already gone to bed when the

BIG rain came thundering in..he was sound asleep!

By some miracle the

rain just STOPPED at about 1 am.....I stayed up cleaning up &

waiting to see if it was going to start up again...then I decided to go

for a walk down to the nearby 24 hour Petrol Station to stock up on

milk...a flood is fine but that means all the shops are closed & a

gal can't run out of MILK!

The whole town was

abuzz....flood sirens going..people being evacuated from the lowest

part of the town....cars, trucks..everyone heading into their

businesses to pack up stock....it all gets quite exciting..lots of

adrenlalin in the air. This is the very first time I haven't had to be

one of those people helping pack up my own place of work! It's not

often that this process has to happen during the night.

Like all of our Coastal

River towns, Lismore is well practised at the art of floods...many

towns south of us will be doing the same exercise over the next few

days.

If the Levee breaks its

banks we'll get flood water in our back yard & perhaps under the

house..won't the puppies love THAT!

Gosh we have such a lot

of natural excitement Downunder.....

If you Google ABC Radio

Lismore NSW you can have a squizzy at some flood piccies & the

action...there's a lot of noise from TV Journos flying overhead in

helicopters..some with Pollies on Board all coming up to show they

DO know we exist here in the Far North of the State & that they

really Do care....great photo opportunities for them for the evening

news! Fat chance we'll believe 'em especially since they've just

announced last week that 400 jobs are being axed from our Area Health

Services across our region!

Cheers from your In-the

Field Reporter..

GIO

[Guest guest]

To our In-The Field Reporter, GIO.

My golly girl your Downunder is struggling to get up-on-top!

Draining a fireplace is a funny vision but in the reality of it, do take care of your self.

I know you are but are you pushing a little bit too far too?

Hugs to you if I can find you in all the natural excitement!

MamaSher; 70, IPF 3-06, OR. NasturtiumsDon't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

OT: A little local flooding to report

Lismore is turning on a Flood today after all the cyclonic rain/wind of the last 2 days added to the already saturated ground from the preceeding 'Big Wet' Season. Hubby is having an enforced day off work...downtown Lismore is empty waiting to see if the Flood Levee breaks its banks.....it'll go very close.

I had to stay up until about 2 am this morning keeping watch on my 3 old fireplaces that just run with water when we get this sort of weather. I lay newspapers on the bottom bricks & have several litter trays lined up on a rigged up scaffolding inside ...I emptied 6 buckets of water from them last night! I'm nearly run out of old newspapers too so the rain had better CEASE forthwith!

It's a delicate decanting process ...I tip each litter tray, one at a time into the big bucket....fun with one hand......huiby had already gone to bed when the BIG rain came thundering in..he was sound asleep!

By some miracle the rain just STOPPED at about 1 am.....I stayed up cleaning up & waiting to see if it was going to start up again...then I decided to go for a walk down to the nearby 24 hour Petrol Station to stock up on milk...a flood is fine but that means all the shops are closed & a gal can't run out of MILK!

The whole town was abuzz....flood sirens going..people being evacuated from the lowest part of the town....cars, trucks..everyone heading into their businesses to pack up stock....it all gets quite exciting..lots of adrenlalin in the air. This is the very first time I haven't had to be one of those people helping pack up my own place of work! It's not often that this process has to happen during the night.

Like all of our Coastal River towns, Lismore is well practised at the art of floods...many towns south of us will be doing the same exercise over the next few days.

If the Levee breaks its banks we'll get flood water in our back yard & perhaps under the house..won't the puppies love THAT!

Gosh we have such a lot of natural excitement Downunder.....

If you Google ABC Radio Lismore NSW you can have a squizzy at some flood piccies & the action...there's a lot of noise from TV Journos flying overhead in helicopters..some with Pollies on Board all coming up to show they DO know we exist here in the Far North of the State & that they really Do care....great photo opportunities for them for the evening news! Fat chance we'll believe 'em especially since they've just announced last week that 400 jobs are being axed from our Area Health Services across our region!

Cheers from your In-the Field Reporter..

GIO

[Guest guest]

,

Must be some Aussie magic cuz its been raining off and on for 3 days ..

In Phoenix...In May~! It just doesnt do that here, Now if you could

just send the cool weather too cus it will be close to 90 today

(actually cool for May its usually 100 or more by now and had been

before the rain). I love the critters helping out MB. Australia was

the one place I really wanted to go in my life. If and when I get my

lung I will come to Linsmore to see you I promise! First I have to lose

weight yadda yadda yadda but I will get there! Hugs from Phoenix

Dyane IPF 02

>

>

> Lismore is turning on a Flood today after all the cyclonic rain/wind

of

> the last 2 days added to the already saturated ground from the

> preceeding 'Big Wet' Season. Hubby is having an enforced day off

> work...downtown Lismore is empty waiting to see if the Flood Levee

> breaks its banks.....it'll go very close.

>

> I had to stay up until about 2 am this morning keeping watch on my 3

old

> fireplaces that just run with water when we get this sort of weather.

I

> lay newspapers on the bottom bricks & have several litter trays lined

up

> on a rigged up scaffolding inside ...I emptied 6 buckets of water from

> them last night! I'm nearly run out of old newspapers too so the rain

> had better CEASE forthwith!

>

> It's a delicate decanting process ...I tip each litter tray, one at a

> time into the big bucket....fun with one hand......huiby had already

> gone to bed when the BIG rain came thundering in..he was sound asleep!

>

> By some miracle the rain just STOPPED at about 1 am.....I stayed up

> cleaning up & waiting to see if it was going to start up again...then

I

> decided to go for a walk down to the nearby 24 hour Petrol Station to

> stock up on milk...a flood is fine but that means all the shops are

> closed & a gal can't run out of MILK!

>

> The whole town was abuzz....flood sirens going..people being evacuated

> from the lowest part of the town....cars, trucks..everyone heading

into

> their businesses to pack up stock....it all gets quite exciting..lots

of

> adrenlalin in the air. This is the very first time I haven't had to be

> one of those people helping pack up my own place of work! It's not

often

> that this process has to happen during the night.

>

> Like all of our Coastal River towns, Lismore is well practised at the

> art of floods...many towns south of us will be doing the same exercise

> over the next few days.

>

> If the Levee breaks its banks we'll get flood water in our back yard &

> perhaps under the house..won't the puppies love THAT!

>

> Gosh we have such a lot of natural excitement Downunder.....

>

> If you Google ABC Radio Lismore NSW you can have a squizzy at some

flood

> piccies & the action...there's a lot of noise from TV Journos flying

> overhead in helicopters..some with Pollies on Board all coming up to

> show they DO know we exist here in the Far North of the State & that

> they really Do care....great photo opportunities for them for the

> evening news! Fat chance we'll believe 'em especially since they've

just

> announced last week that 400 jobs are being axed from our Area Health

> Services across our region!

>

> Cheers from your In-the Field Reporter..

>

> GIO

>