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See this pic? See that car in the right?


That's not our car. Our car is a bit further up the street, and so far the water has not made it inside. However, that is our bin bobbing merrily along at the back there.

Sydney does rain the way that London and Paris do snow ;-) We could prepare better for it, but why, when it so rarely happens? 

Am at home now, which has reassured the cats, who are looking to me for leadership. So far no need for any of my emergency house repair skills, though I have a tarp and towels at the ready should a leak spring. The guttering at the back has pulled off the house, but the water is flooding out away from the wall, so I will leave it for now rather than make things worse. We do, however, have a pool in our courtyard! And it didn't cost a cent!

A friend who lives locally offered me a lift home, I took one look at the traffic and said I would walk. I suspect she may still be trapped somewhere on Erskineville Rd. Meanwhile the paved square near my place is filled with the cars of people who have abandoned their quest to return home and have instead turned to the ample bosom of the Rose of Australia, where an enterprising publican has obviously been frying onions since the rains began this morning -- the scent is magnificent!

Sensible post later. News at nine!

Date: 2010-06-04 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wivern.livejournal.com
Oh my God! What is it with the weather?

Date: 2010-06-04 08:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com
Climate change is SO real! Though Australia just has mad weather anyway. The most famous poem here has a line about 'drought and flooding rains', which are pretty much the only two options ;-)

Date: 2010-06-04 01:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wivern.livejournal.com
It really is! I'm going to pick up a new car because my 'old' one was written off due to hail damage. In Melbourne!

Though we'd quite like some of your rain if possuble. *g*

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