Gympie Posts

Gympie On Flood Alert

Yes, it is raining pretty hard here at the moment.  Of course it is, we are moving house after all, and it always rains then.

Last night, it rained pretty much nonstop and it hasn’t let up at all today.  Our backyard is a swimming pool, which probably means a fence is going to have to be built around it to keep council happy! LOL.  Let’s not go there about pool fencing regulations, because we could be here all night.

The radio has just informed us that the Mary River (the only one in Australia to run from the South to the North) is close to bursting her banks, and that she is expected to within the next few hours.

There is already flash flooding in some lower lying areas, but not near us (though the backyard says otherwise).  This is expected to stick around for a while yet.

Over night, they expect the rain to get heavier, and a severe weather warning has been issued for the Wide Bay and Cooloola regions (we are Cooloola) meaning flash flooding, thunder, lightening and possible high winds (not what you need when you are trying to move!!!).

Well, we better get the damned flooding this time because I am still peeved that we didn’t get any from the cyclone a month ago or the rain further south a couple of weeks ago.  Damn it!  Flood Gympie, I want to show everyone what it looks like when the bottom of our street floods!!!!!  With pictures from my own camera!!!!

It looks like we are going to get our 1 in 10 year flood, our 1 in 25 year flood, our 1 in 50 year flood and our 1 in 100 year flood, all of which, we are overdue for.

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I Know Someone Who’d Have Loved To Have Be Here Last Night

Well, let’s just say, there is one member of the Minti.com community who is going to turn even more purple upon reading this (it is rss fed through to my minti homepage).  Minti members are going to know who it is straight away, and the wonderful member is going to be sitting at her computer yelling at me to get to the point.

Hold your pants Queen of the Daft.  I’ll get to it all when I am good and ready.  Not yet…still not ready…maybe soon…got to go for a walk now…Back again…sorry, baby needs feeding…too tired now…

Ok, enough teasing.  I’ll get to it now.

Last night, I went down to the laundry to finish my duties for the night.  Being dark down there, I reached to turn on the light, almost falling over the broom handle in my way.  Light finally on, and I turned around to walk to the washing machine.  Uh oh.

Right in front of my beloved machine was a rather small, scaley, and obviously quite cold reptilian friend.  It was a baby snake (or it could have been a fully grown crown snake, though couldn’t be verified- keep reading to find out why).  I had woken it from its peaceful slumber, all in the name of getting something remotely domestic done for the day.

As my little visitor became aware of the light, it sleepily lifted its head and began testing the air with its thread like tongue.  ‘What?  Who turned on the sun?  I thought it was bed time’.  You had to be there to see the way it moved.

Carefully placing the wash basket back up the stairs (to avoid another tempting hiding place), I went and got Les.  He came down to have a look at our new visitor, which hadn’t moved at all.  Yep, I wasn’t seeing things, phew!

Gradually, as we watched, our new tennant (remind me to remind him the rent is now overdue) began to make his (??- not verified) way very slowly off to the behind of the washing machine.  Now, when I say very slowly, I mean as if it were moving in slow motion- the journey from being in front of the washing machine to disappearing somewhere behind it took about 5 mins. (more…)

No Wonder We Are Melting…

I’ve just found out how hot it got in our little town (Gympie) today!  Are you ready for this?  Might need to be sitting down…..

The maximum temperature for Thursday 1st January 2009 in Gympie was….40 degrees celcius.

Not hot….much!!!!!!!!!!  Put it this way, I will be able to have a warm shower, just by turning the cold tap on!

Ok, unscheduled post.  Just thought I would share how hot it got in my little town.

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