dlowan wrote:is it ravishing in Melbs, too, Msolga? You prolly have our yeasterday's weather.
Yes, just lovely!
I'm SO glad I finished those wretched reports yesterday & was able to leave the laptop alone today. Felt like a New Woman getting out of the house, I did!
(BTW did Adelaide cop those outrageous storms last week? "Worst storm in over 100 years" our weather bureau advised us. I have now discovered that a spot in the lounge room ceiling leaks ... It smells mouldy in there!)
We had storms - but not that bad.
It's a winter wonderland here in New York. Big snow blew through here Friday and all of Saturday too. New Yorkers are secretly ecstatic, so much too gripe about, so little time before it melts.\\\
We are experiencing a rainstorm moving through the Pacific Northwest. It began in earnest just following the little ice age about 12,000 years ago. It has, I confess, gotten a little wearying and we here are really hoping that nothing like Kyoto arrives on the political stage. We are enthused about climate change. We support Halliburton and Shell Oil and SUVs.
The little ice age is nothing to what is going to happen to Britain if the global warming continues. We were all hoping for tropical plants, warm sunny days etc. but since the Gulf Stream will probably be diverted (possibly in a sudden happening maybe 10-30 years from now) we will end up like northeastern CANADA!!!! Loads of snow and ice and several months of winter.
There was a piece printed in a Vancouver paper last week on the ski industry's understanding of their future. They understand that many resorts will not survive.
One of the arguments I find particularly offensive (for its stupidness) is that 'even if significant change happens, well, we'll just accomodate...besides, then Oregon will become sunny California...no problem'
Quote:I used to ask them to hand-tighten, not use those damned machines, when I bought new tyres, or had them aligned etc., but they always nodded and never did it.
Tell them you don't want your damn rotors warped. But, then, I've never encountered lug nuts so tight I couldn't get 'em off myself, so maybe you folks do these things a little differently there.
dog
Nor have I. Might it be the Fosters bluster of the Australian male...froth, little substance?
It IS weird - and very annoying. I mean, so far it has been ok if I have had to wait for someone with a damn machine to come, but imagine late at night in a scary place? It generally takes ages for them to come.
Global warming is posited to be very bad for Oz - where I am, for instance, which is the driest state, rainfall is projected to become even less - already a huge part of it is desert - but to come in the form of more storms and deluges.
You cannot tell what weather is doing easily - but that certainly seems to be coming true. Dammit.
deb
One of the projections is for unusually severe weather phenomena, and that too seems to be playing out already. I'm not very optimistic. Population displacements and disease epidemics and the political consequences of those scare the bloody hell out of me. The US, now Russia, and even Canada's amost new PM are refusing to follow Kyoto because of 'cost'. When the view into the future is determined by shareholder demands for the next quarter, we don't have much of a future.
Did I mention that we won the world cup at Rugby, apparently we beat some Southern Hemisphere side
hiama wrote:Did I mention that we won the world cup at Rugby, apparently we beat some Southern Hemisphere side
Did you know that Aussies, for all their obsession about sport, generally forget about games 10 minutes after their over? Living in the sun drenched island paradise that we do, we've got other things in our lives.
Wilso wrote:
Quote:Did you know that Aussies, for all their obsession about sport, generally forget about games 10 minutes after their over? Living in the sun drenched island paradise that we do, we've got other things in our lives.
Tell that to David Campese
