Our prayers are with people experiencing the serious flooding in the Sydney area. Anybody here in the comment academy affected?
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Our prayers are with people experiencing the serious flooding in the Sydney area. Anybody here in the comment academy affected?
Up here in the nearby 'mountains' (hills and plateaus) when the amount of water on the ground gets too much it starts to come under the carpet. That happened about midnite Saturday, so I was out with the shovel at 2am digging new channels to divert the water. Finally just now I moved an old stone slab which was the problem. Former owners put in a decorative rock garden over the drainage, grrrr.
ReplyDeleteNot as bad for us as a year ago when local roads and rail tracks washed away. But this time the Warragamba dam is overflowing which has affected towns along the Nepean and Hawkesbury Rivers. So far almost no major losses, which is good. Thanks for your prayers.
Towns affected along the Nepean/Hawkesbury are in one of Australia's earliest settlement areas (so pretty used to flooding) and are named after famous British people 200 yrs ago - Wilberforce, Pitt Town (after William Pitt) and...Cornwallis:
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No doubt named after General Cornwallis, because we were on the British side back then! It's still a military area, now Richmond Air Force Base.
Sounds mighty soggy.
ReplyDeleteSo, Cornwallis had a town named after him, even after Yorktown? I guess his actions in India and Ireland sort of made up for the American loss?
At the time we had been governed by William Bligh of Bounty fame and rebellion was in the air:
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followed by Governor Macquarie who established those towns. Cornwallis had recently died and maybe Macquarie saw C's life as epitomising dogged persistence and imperial discipline.
Hopeful thoughts to you, Bruce, from the other side.
ReplyDeleteWe'd happily take some of that rainfall here in Perth. You can keep the spiders, though.
Thanks Gregory.
ReplyDeleteActually just heard from friends, a young family with kids who live in a brand new house on the Windsor line. They've been told to evacuate because they may be cut off if water rises more, but 'nothing happened' so they're just waiting a bit before going. He's a civil engineer who builds highways, so they'll be ok.
Here in the hills the worst seems to be over.
River flooding comes days after the rain so prayers for those in the riverine areas.
Prayers to Bruce, Gregory, and all those effected in OZ. God bless!
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