Is the Southern Colony Sustainable?

[Leon Roskilly]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/col...0159362729.html

 

COLAC residents may soon find the smell of rotting fish wafting across town, with thousands of fish in the fast-receding Lake Colac expected to begin dying within days if the hot weather continues.

 

Water in the lake 150 kilometres south-west of Melbourne is up to 100 metres from its usual shoreline. Salinity levels are high and the water is 24 degrees.............

 

 

................Further north, residents around Lake Boga have been wearing face masks to shield themselves from the smell of more than 10,000 dead fish.

 

More floods in the North, but bush fires in WA and Victoria, Sydney recovering from violent storms at the weekend.

 

(It's that time of year!)

Edited January 14, 2008 by Leon Roskilly

[Bobj]

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/col...0159362729.html

More floods in the North, but bush fires in WA and Victoria, Sydney recovering from violent storms at the weekend.

 

(It's that time of year!)

 

Too right, mate!!

http://www.weatherzone.com.au/qld/central-coast/ball-bay

[Bobj]

Pity the poor Australian posties....

[Newt]

Hmmmm - soft ground?

 

It looks to be a drainage ditch that was (for some dumb reason) lightly grown over with grass & weed.

 

Oops.

[chevin]

Hmmmm - soft ground?

 

It looks to be a drainage ditch that was (for some dumb reason) lightly grown over with grass & weed.

 

Oops.

 

 

Probably been trying to do a wheelie on soft ground!

[Bobj]

An update for Qld., flooding.

 

Reports on the radio that some small towns are receiving up to 400 mm=16 inches of rain

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story...5-11949,00.html

Edited January 18, 2008 by Bobj

[Bobj]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01...ction=australia

 

Just had 9.5 inches of rain in the Mackay area. Roughly 67% of Qld has been declared 'flood damaged'

[Newt]

Good lord!!!

Those amounts of rain would flood just about anything other than the ocean.

[chevin]

Good lord!!!

Those amounts of rain would flood just about anything other than the ocean.

 

 

The ocean is so full, some fish even swim up the rivers! I was at the beach this morning and a few hours later the ocean had moved about a metre up the beach! And it hasn't rained here for 40 days!

Edited January 21, 2008 by chevin

[Leon Roskilly]

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01...ction=australia

 

Just had 9.5 inches of rain in the Mackay area. Roughly 67% of Qld has been declared 'flood damaged'

 

I think that I've tracked down who's responsible for that!

 

But the future of Driza-Bone coats is threatened by drought. Kathy Marks visits the Queensland factory where they're praying for rain

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/austra...icle3124291.ece

 

(There are a few fellas in Queensland who know how to bring on the rain, if they are suitably rewarded!)