As anyone who has ever moved knows – the utilities will always screw up. They are very dependable that way. Normally it is your fault because you called too early or you called to late rather than at the exact picosecond when they were ready to deal with it.
It will be over soon, just keep telling yourself…
]]>Well… the plan was to move this weekend, but because of flooding and several other complications, looks like it will now be the following weekend. (you’d think that an extra week would make it easier, but in fact it makes things difficult. We’d already organized things like changing utilities (phone, electricity, gas, water), and we *KNOW* one or more of them will cut us off, even though we’ve told them the change in plans! So we’ll probably end up with no phone and/or power come Monday. And the Movers weren’t happy since they had to change someone else’s plans to get us on Sat, and now have to change things again.) *sigh*
And yep, Rudd did indeed have to get treatment after wading in the dirty water, and to his credit, said he’d do it again (and I believe he would). 🙂
I’ll post in the new thread about the floods here in Vic! And many thanks once again for posting about this, it’s appreciated by many. 🙂
Oh! I discovered something interesting whilst packing to move… I have hundreds of backup CD’s from the 90’s and past decade. I decided to check them because we know CD’s don’t last forever. However, I did the old backups on expensive Kodak Type S (maximum data life) gold CD’s. (remember them>) 😉 They became hard to find over the last five years or so, and the new CD’s are the silver or bluish tinted types. Well, all of the Kodak Gold CD’s I checked worked, (and some were 12-15 years old), and many of the newer ones from 6-10 years old couldn’t be read! (some had visible anomalies on the dye layer). I guess the expensive Kodak CD’s were well worth the price! If you want long life backup, the new ones are crap! Doncha just love how everything is so much better these days? Pfffffft!
]]>I have been following them, and the discussion of the Super La Niña in the Pacific. They seem to tracking along the same lines of the last time this happened in the mid-1970s, when Australia also experienced massive flooding.
With rain falling at over 100mm/hour I don’t see how you can control water flow, especially when the land is soaked after weeks of rain. I’m not sure that people understand that this has been going on for more than 40 days with only minor periods of respite.
They are already talking about basic food prices rising by 30% worldwide, and if Russia has another dry year it will get worse. Obviously the flooding in the mines will have a major impact on countries that import from Australia, like China, as well as, domestic users, so more commodity prices will rise. And none of that factors in the losses to individuals, especially the loss of family and friends.
i remember reading that Rudd had to be treated for some sort of infection from wading in the water, so disease will follow on after the water recedes. The recovery, to the extent it is possible, will take years. Some businesses will never be back, because the owners just can’t recover from the losses.
I know you are busier than a one-armed paper hanger, but be careful out there, and know that there are people in other places who are watching, even if they don’t always mention it.
]]>Right. Now onto something infinitely more important than duffy’s massively overinflated fantasy-land ego and blissfully willful ignorance of reality.
The floods hit Victoria’s Nth once again this weekend. The Campaspie river broke it’s banks (which was expected, but happened quicker and was worse than expected). 46 Towns have been flooded and/or evacuated as of this morning in Victoria. This is now the worst flood we’ve had here in my memory.
Historic floodwaters swamp Victorian towns
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