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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2012 15:44:49 GMT -5
Yeah, the one that pinned me to a roof happened on a sunny day. Tricksy boogers to be sure.
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Post by Random Panther on Apr 4, 2012 17:09:42 GMT -5
I've known a couple of workmates that were blown off buildings in high winds,must be dodgy to work construction in tornado country.
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2012 17:17:26 GMT -5
Well, there was what appeared to be a small cloud, we were re-roofing a house, and I was keeping a watch on the cloud. Suddenly I screamed for everyone to get off the roof. They all made it, except for me. I had turned to set one more nail in a vent and was slammed face down on the roof.
Hell showed up. I managed to get sitting and the rain was so hard it was coming halfway up my back just going down the roof. I noticed some tar paper coming up and managed to crawl down to re-secure it. I was losing the battle when one of the crew came back up in all that to help me. We were 6 feet apart and could not yell loud enough to hear each other. We couldn't see past 10 feet.
Suddenly everything went dead quiet, the rain stopped, and the sun came out. Our senses were totally numb and it took a few minutes for them to return.
When they did, we saw giant cottonwood trees downed across the street and knee deep water was running down the roads.
The owner came out and was screaming at us and just wouldn't accept that there was no way I could have gotten off the roof.
We wrapped up for the day and went to the bar.
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Post by Jenne on Apr 4, 2012 19:50:37 GMT -5
Shit I think you were owed a round or two after that ordeal. Damn.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 21:58:19 GMT -5
Well our drought's broken: lol That's the Manning River. Two years ago sheep were dropping dead of thirst in the paddocks round there. Now 8,000 of the buggers have drowned.... I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains. I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea, Her beauty and her terror – The wide brown land for melol
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2012 23:06:43 GMT -5
Damn, that sucks.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 23:21:58 GMT -5
No...it's wonderful. It needs to flood. It needs to burn too but that's a lot crueller.
It is not a land that has a northern hemisphere climate...we have a Wet and a Dry...not spring summer autumn and winter....and the dry will last 20 years at times...the fossil record shows it... decades of drought. Then this happens and it all comes alive again.
It's not been dead...it looks dead. The ground snaps and cracks open.It looks as if nothing will ever grow here again. Trees that have stood a century die of thirst and drop across dry river beds 20 metres down from the bank they were germinated on...but its only sleeping.
It's the rain that wakes it.
It's so incredible to see . I have birds in my yard I haven't seen in 10 years. Lizards and geckos and skinks. The spiders are everywhere and they're fat and sleek; their webs drape all over the yard. Wild flowers that last bloomed when Clinton was President are covering deserts in South Australia .
Lake Eyre has pelicans on it!!
I love this land. I hate this country but I love the land. I am besotted with everything that lives on it and in it. It's the goddess's own garden. It really truly is.
No. It's not her garden. It is the goddess. She is the land for sure.
And she is at her most beautiful when she first wakes.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 23:36:35 GMT -5
Lake Eyre was dry for two decades. Look at it now:
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2012 23:37:18 GMT -5
Liar. That's the fucking ocean.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 23:48:20 GMT -5
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2012 23:50:00 GMT -5
I live in the desert. It's full of cactus, creosote bushes and buffalo grass. NO FUCKING WATER.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 23:51:47 GMT -5
That full flood it is in now was last seen in 1972. All the inland rivers end up there. This was the longest driest drought on record and it had got to the point where that yacht club could only get a row-boat out on the water in it. Now it's burst its banks and spread over the flood plain.
It's the most beautiful thing in the world isn't it... Water in the desert?
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Post by admin on Apr 4, 2012 23:53:46 GMT -5
Yeah, how long will it last now?
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 23:54:06 GMT -5
I live in the desert. It's full of cactus, creosote bushes and buffalo grass. NO FUCKING WATER. lol I told you - we don't got your climate. We don't got your topography. We don't got your flora or fauna. We got this. "Australia is a lucky country, run by dull people who share its luck"
Donald Horne.
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Post by StormInateacup on Apr 4, 2012 23:56:07 GMT -5
Yeah, how long will it last now? Another season and a half...18 months at most. And we're letting all that life giving water run to the oceans and through storm-water drains because we haven't the wit to keep our rivers clear and our houses built up on stilts. See above Donald Horne quote for explanation of that.
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