WTF Australia??

[blamebrampton]

Guess what natural disaster is currently rampaging across the top half of New South Wales? 

Go on, guess!

Did you guess flood? A gold star for you.

Now guess what the latest threat from the fires down in Victoria is? 

Contamination of Melbourne's very marginal water supplies.

Oh Australia, you are so hilarious!

An update post on the Victorian fires later tonight, and for anyone wondering when the plague of locusts is going to descend, that was last November.

Comments

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

At least when it comes to making small talk at parties, the weather is actually an interesting subject... also, guaranteed job security for meterologists and climate scientists.

Both more in the small mercy category rather than the saving grace.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Maybe the Murray Darling system will fill up and the good people of Adelaide will have some water for a change?

[i-autumnheart.livejournal.com]

It's entirely possible: got to be better than flooding the lagoony bit with seawater. And while Bourke may be an isolated mess this week, I saw a prediction that the water from there will reach the Meninee lakes, which would be another useful thing.

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

One of the locks in the River Murray failed and let a heap of water out so the little creek that flows by Collette's place is now a mud flat.....