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First it was the drought giving me ridiculous power bills and expensive food.

Now it's the rain cutting my income. I was supposed to be working outside (paid) right now but it's been cancelled due to rain. Smurf's quite happy to get wet, but it's not safe to do that sort of work in the rain etc so it's cancelled.

It's seems that whoever is running this weather is trying to send me broke. :p:

Not to worry though. I'm off outside to put up more Christmas lights. Maybe the heat given off from those will warm the place up a bit? Only another 1500 or so lights to go so nearly there. I might get wet, but at least it's not windy which is a nice change from recent weather. :)
 
CoffeeKing said:
This is'nt about the weather just curious if they still have the old red tram
near the casino in Adelaide that sold the best PIE FLOATER I have ever tasted

Much better than the one from the pie tram in Newcastle (NSW)
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I think it has gone, and the only place selling the true floater is in North Adelaide know, within walking distance of Adelaide Oval (Test Match) so it should be busy later on. Wonder if Roy will be at the Cathedral pub after the match, like last year according my kids.
 
Smurf1976 said:
First it was the drought giving me ridiculous power bills and expensive food.

Now it's the rain cutting my income. I was supposed to be working outside (paid) right now but it's been cancelled due to rain. Smurf's quite happy to get wet, but it's not safe to do that sort of work in the rain etc so it's cancelled.

It's seems that whoever is running this weather is trying to send me broke. :p:

Not to worry though. I'm off outside to put up more Christmas lights. Maybe the heat given off from those will warm the place up a bit? Only another 1500 or so lights to go so nearly there. I might get wet, but at least it's not windy which is a nice change from recent weather. :)
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Don't switch the lights on until December 1st as you will have bad luck for all of 2009 if you do.
 
noirua said:
Don't switch the lights on until December 1st as you will have bad luck for all of 2009 if you do.
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*click*

:angry: So, it was SMURF who caused this World Financial Crisis mess! :angry:

LOL

Back to the Worst Drought Ever topic...

It's hot here in Wodonga. Again. Damned hot :angry: Next 4 days predicted 40, 41, 42, 42.

Hume dam is sinking fast at around -0.2% per day. Leaves about 3 months till empty if Dartmouth isn't drawn down (which it will be shortly for sure).

If anyone needs a link to the new Murray-Darling Basin Authority's website with cool live river data and interactive maps, here 'tis. Check out the inflow graphs for 2008-09. http://www.mdba.gov.au/water/river_info/weekly_reports Looking REAL sick...

http://www.mdba.gov.au/water/river_info

chiz,


aj
 
43 degrees here today, and 41 tomorrow and Thursday then cooling down to 38! And dry, so dry. And our stupid bloody Rann Government suggests people turn off the air-conditioner! :mad:
 
Prospector said:
43 degrees here today, and 41 tomorrow and Thursday then cooling down to 38! And dry, so dry. And our stupid bloody Rann Government suggests people turn off the air-conditioner! :mad:
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Finally some proper summer weather :)

Might have to go back and go skiing and wakeboarding in the home town for a week :D
 
prawn_86 said:
Finally some proper summer weather :)

Might have to go back and go skiing and wakeboarding in the home town for a week :D
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So are you suggesting there is actually water in the River Murray in SA? And watch out for submerged (and not so submerged) debris - it has become way more dangerous now the water level is so low.
 
Prospector said:
So are you suggesting there is actually water in the River Murray in SA? And watch out for submerged (and not so submerged) debris - it has become way more dangerous now the water level is so low.
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Its fine in the Riverland, because they are holding all the water back with the locks. The river is actually crystal clear up there, as there is virtually no flow, so all the sediment has settled, meaning you can see your feet when your swimming!

It might not be there for much longer so might as well make use of the river now... ;)
 
Prospector said:
43 degrees here today, and 41 tomorrow and Thursday then cooling down to 38! And dry, so dry. And our stupid bloody Rann Government suggests people turn off the air-conditioner! :mad:
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I wonder.

Have all Stupid Bloody Rann's gummint ministers voluntarily unplugged THEIR thundering aircons in their palatial mansions in response to their leader's call?

Lemme guess..... :cool:

Oh, I get it! "Do as we say, not as we ourselves are loathe to do..." Enough to make you weep with tears of cynicism, really!
 
Aussiejeff said:
I wonder.

Have all Stupid Bloody Rann's gummint ministers voluntarily unplugged THEIR thundering aircons in their palatial mansions in response to their leader's call?

Lemme guess..... :cool:

Oh, I get it! "Do as we say, not as we ourselves are loathe to do..." Enough to make you weep with tears of cynicism, really!
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Check out this link.
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24968648-5006301,00.html

And now they are saying they sent out the press release to tell people to save money
 
Prospector said:
43 degrees here today, and 41 tomorrow and Thursday then cooling down to 38! And dry, so dry. And our stupid bloody Rann Government suggests people turn off the air-conditioner! :mad:
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It's certainly very hot in SA and Vic the next few days!

Regarding the air-conditioner, well that depends on the power supply.

In short, demand is extremely high in Vic and SA. In both states, peak demand (tomorrow) and available local generation (including the part of the Snowy considered to be in Vic) are about in balance.

So there's enough power as long as not too many things go wrong. However, both NSW and Tas are able to put additional electricity into Vic so in practice there's more than enough as long as nothing unexpected happens (eg a fire burns the lines down etc). And Vic can put power into SA - more than is likely to be needed.

So overall there is certainly high demand but it's so far, so good as far as generation is concerned. A few issues yes, it could be better, but it's good enough unless there are some big failures - always a possibility on any day.

So I'd be running the air-conditioner quite happily without much concern, just aware that there's a small risk that enough things go wrong to cause problems. But you don't go to work 2 hours early just in case the bus breaks down and by the same logic there's no reason to be switching things off just in case a power station breaks down.
 
44 freaking degrees here today. 41 tomorrow, 41 friday. Hell. Lowest temp overnight last night, 34 degrees. Opened the front door at 7am and it was like an oven.

Late yesterday a conductor at Port Adelaide broke down and caused a fire at Adelaide Brighton Cement. Poor people at Port Adelaide and surrounds had no power for a few hours. How we can escape this without a major bushfire will be a miracle. The last couple of fires have been caused by angle grinders, but there have also been I think over 200 fires started since November last year by fire bugs. One day they will be charged with murder. Why they dont get charged with arson is beyond me!
 
http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/article/2009/01/28/35415_hpnews.html

TOWNSVILLE is seeing a return to the wet season of old, experiencing the largest amount of January rainfall in 10 years – and there's even more wet weather on the way.
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I also see the Burdekin Dam is flowing over the spillway again, (as well as our own two Dam's here) like last year and the year before. Last year the Burdekin Dam was flowing over over the top of the spillway at the volume of Sydney Harbour every day :eek:

Not sure if the "predictions" that with climate change, temperate sub tropical climates (south of about Rockhampton) will get hotter and tropical areas will stay about the same and get more rain are coming true but I wish this rain would STOP already !
 
So it is currently 44C (111F) and it is only 12.15; our peak temperature hits at around 3.30 - 4pm. At what temperature does everything just kind of explode?:(
 
Prospector said:
So it is currently 44C (111F) and it is only 12.15; our peak temperature hits at around 3.30 - 4pm. At what temperature does everything just kind of explode?:(
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Its actually hotter in Adel than the Riverland today (by 2 degrees). But one time up there, we threw a thermometer on the sand on a day like this and it cracked from the heat :eek:

You know its hot when the tar is bubbling up through the road. Love it! :cool:
 

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