DMt. wrote:Wishing you all plenty of Manchester's rain, Fishy...
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Thanks Dave.
It took a long while to get here but it finally arrived.
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We've been having a "bit" of a weather event in South Aus over the last few days.
The most severe storms in over 50 years have dumped half a year's worth of water.
Winds of up to 140kph and an estimated 80,000 lightning strikes have wrecked 22 of the states major power line pylons used to distribute electricity around the state.
One of the larger power stations was put out of action by lightning.
The interconnecters to bring power from neighbouring states have also been damaged.
All this of course, trips the whole system to shut down.
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Here in my part of Adelaide we were without power for only about 6 hours, but some parts of the state are still working to restore it after 3 days.
Australia is the driest of the inhabited continents, only Antarctica (surprisingly) gets less precipitation.
And South Australia is the driest of the states, so we are not well equipped to deal with this amount of rain.
There are still flood peaks making their way down the rivers and creeks, bursting their banks as they go, and causing extensive damage to the downstream communities.
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My place is in the foothills and out of reach of the flooding but there's still some wind and rain damage to be repaired, so please be a bit more patient.
I'll be back as soon as I can.
Oh, and Dave, no more of Manchester's bloody rain, please.
This is such a lovely little walking path too.
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A final couple of thoughts.
1/ All this water is only going to encourage the growth of a bumper crop of bushfire fuel for the future.
2/ And the absolute worst thing is that some of the stupid climate-change denying politicians in Canberra are blaming this whole thing on our "rush" to use renewable energy.
FFS, it doesn't matter if you generate your electricity by wind, solar, gas, coal, nuclear or fairy dust, if your power lines are blown away you're just not going to get any electricity to the end users.
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