Windstorm!

What about that wind storm?? I haven't seen any trees down, but I don't know why not. The trees along the creek over in the reserve were amazing, they sounded likes waves on the ocean! Totally awesome. The silky oak over the back from here looked as if it was going to snap off, it was bent so hard. Certainly cleaned the air though, the air smelled really clear very quickly. And today it so cold - then I found out it snowed at Orange today. And the wind was coming from that direction. The electric blanket goes on tonight!

Rainbows and thunder

(this was suppose to be on the 13th April - I lost the post)

There was a huge full arc rainbow this afternoon! One end of it was doubled. Makes up for the huge storm and thunder that shook the roof of the house and made me turn everything off for the duration.

The problem with this time of year is that the grass never dries. It's just not hot enough. It is a very green world right now.

Don't you love this area? We cleaned out a kitchen cupboard and found redbacks in a box at the back. Watch out for those dark corners. The good news is that after years of thinking redbacks kill people I found out a while back that it's highly unlikely that would happen. The main problem with the bloody things is the extreme pain and how it doesn't go away. It's debilitating and persistent and it's hard to function which is why they have an anti-venom. Good basic info here: http://www.australianprescriber.com/magazine/29/6/156/8/

Storm

Just in case you hadn't noticed, it's wet again! Big storm this arvo, lightning and all. Of course it was all over by the time I got home, just a bit of rain! The creek is up just a little.

I want someone to tell me about something that happened in Tregear lately! I think I live in the quietest corner of the suburb!

More rain! Fancy that.

It was sunny during the day and rather hot. Then the rain came back! With a vengance! I turned everything off while the storm was happening but it's gone again. I keep wondering if South Creek has flooded again, but I can't be bothered going out to find out. I also want Ropes Creek to break it's banks. It's been too long. Lots of people round here have never seen our reserve flooded. The rain radar is stunning, one massive amount of rain that is just traveling across the whole of Sydney. It looks like it has a big blank area with no rain in the middle.

As for the missing kids yesterday - no one has been reported missing so the thought is the kids got out by themselves and don't want to own up. The next day or so will make it more obvious.

And isn't it amazing how many papers picked up the brawl at the community centre? It's pushed all the other bits of news off this page and it's just cycling through all the different papers that have covered that story. I hope the girl is ok. My best wishes go out to you, whoever you are.

Storm!

It's all of 20 dec C out there today. Still very cloudy and wet and cool. It would have been interesting to look at the rain radar to see what the storms yesterday were looking like, but really, I wasn't about to plug this computer in while that was going on! That would be a recipe for disaster. No tv either (and did everyone remember to unplug your aerial as well?) so there was a lot of lounging around and reading.

I was out the front doing some garden work when it was sprinkling. It was the first time it's been cool enough to do anything out there for a while. Got quite a bit of pruning done. Then it started thundering again and I scuttled back inside quick smart.

I'll be checking the dam levels again on Thursday when they post them. It will be interesting to see how they are going after all this and I swear it was over the catchment area as well.

No damage close by. The wind was so strong I'm surprised there wasn't.