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[blamebrampton]

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!

Comments

[shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com]

I saw the flash flood warnings for Sydney - so Erskinville is flooding - looking at that photo just reminds me of summer/early autumn in Brissie and the Rocklea underpass constantly going under water, not to mention the downstairs of my old house. Hope you continue to experience a relatively trouble free rain event....

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Yipes!

Here in "rainy" London (which apparently does get less rain than Sydney, according to our local water company) we have a mini heat-wave.

Hope you and yours stay dry.

[wivern.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! What is it with the weather?

[nuclearsugars.livejournal.com]

D:

Good luck with keeping your car dry? Also, I have this vision of you leading an army of cats against flash floods.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

The water's gone down mostly now, thank goodness! Our wading pools are attractive, if not necessarily what I would have gone for given the choice. There were masked lapwings pecking about in the park outside the council estate this morning, and my shoes, with their 1.5 inch soles, are sodden ;-)

[auntpurl.livejournal.com]

Holy shit! Stay safe!

[not-an-elf.livejournal.com]

you know what I see in that pic? I see a railway switchboard with very wet feet. This is what we electrical engineers call a major design flaw.

It doesn't go zap today... but all the crud and moisture is in there now, gently corroding the steel, making the copper furry, reducing clearances, weakening insulation....

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I believe that historically, Sydney has more rain than London. In my experience, it saves up several years' worth and then dumps it all at once. And yet there is no stormwater recycling, because New South Wales excels in wretched planning above all else ;-)

[shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com]

Better watch out or catsathome (a certain red head we both know with two incredibly well fed and rotund cats) will mysteriously manage to get some gnomes with fishing pools set up in those wading pools........
Hope the shoes can be saved!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yeah ... look, on the up-side, after this lot stops, it'll probably be another 15 years before it gets wet again ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Safe is easy! Dry may be more of an issue ... (Also, *sends hugs!* I have wanted to send you big and affectionate replies to your last couple of posts, but have been instead running to work and then coming home and being too stupid to be of any friendly use)

[not-an-elf.livejournal.com]

...switches to doomsayer mode....

of course!
that's probably right!
it's like these sorts of things go wrong!
just ask a BP exec... or those guys from petrobras...

at least when stuff blows up, you get a free upgrade to the latest gear....

[alex-s9.livejournal.com]

For a moment there I thought you moved to Poland, girl.

[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 ;-)

[mayela-delarue.livejournal.com]

My event site is flooded and ruined for the weekend. I'm here at work relocating the entire thing to our town Hall and am reconfiguring the whole lay out. I think I'd rather be at your place with you and the cats. Here's hoping your feet stay dry.

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

OMG - this looks awful! I hope the house and the car and you and the cats will stay safe.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Follow me to the dry ground, my feline friends!

So far the car is not wet on the inside. I have given up on checking it -- it's not as though I can drive it anywhere!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Then you and I could take tea in the dry! Excellent result!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Poor sausage! The cats are thrilled, because I have the heater on drying out my shoes, which means I am obviously planning on warming up my cats! I'd say pop in, but I have used up all my seating space with drying out clothes!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's not so bad, the cars are all parked on the lower side of the street, our house is a bit up the hill from there: the water is mostly gushing past save for our little ponds ;-)

[alex-s9.livejournal.com]

No, srsly, your street looks like my route to work and back. I wonder if heavy rains in Australia can be blamed on the Icelandic volcano erupting as well... I mean, it wasn't as serious as the Sumatra eruption in 1818 (?, sorry forgot the exact date.)

[rainien.livejournal.com]

If you see a bunch of animals lining up two by two, grab Mr. Brammers and get in line. The animals know where to go. :D

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

We have two cats, I feel certain they will warn us!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

I will never believe that BP thought it was a good idea to drill that well in the first place, let alone keep everything running to normal when all their safety backups started failing one after the other before the explosion.

Should the switchboard go boom, we're far enough up the street to not be too stressed, and close enough to town to walk it!

[mayela-delarue.livejournal.com]

Hehehe,i should also have mentioned it's an Eco festival with a focus on Climate Change, ah the irony!