Australia.

AMMO....MY BLUNDER DOG !!

I have decided that just being home , and not travelling,  and also , not writing anything on my travel blogs I might as well still get on here now and again and say HI ! instead of just scanning and posting my postcards that I love to receive.. so..will give it a go.! This last couple of days has encouraged me to do so.

 June 6th.  The rain has stopped ...At last !! Sydney and the whole of the east coast of Australia has had and is still having a huge cyclonic weather depression just about drown us all.....I believe that it started new Brisbane and worked it was down the whole of the east coast over the last four days and upon reaching Sydney began battering the city and outlying areas over the next forty eight plus hours  , after leaving a heavily flooded and wind damaged trail of destruction behind it as it moves south down the coast...The winds were constant and very heavy ,  they mentioned around 125 kilometres / hour in many areas causing roofs to be torn off and many trees brought down with a litany of damage with cars floating also submerged in some streets in flooded areas., inundation of water in houses and shops..power outages in many areas..and literally chaos.everywhere it was happening.. When Mother Nature  gets "pissed off" she reacts in many different ways and this was extreme to say the least...so much rain in such a short period of time sometimes it appeared to be horizontal ...it was so heavy and driven by such strong winds.in such a short time.
   .Myself,  I was fortunate to not have any damage that was substantial...and the water appeared to run off rather quickly..but it made me think also of all that water that now a lot of country people are receiving after such a prolonged drought  of no rain ..in some areas a few years!! I can picture the country kids running around happily shouting in the heavy rain being just so pleased to see it once again and cattle and sheep that had never heard thunder !!...or seen lightning !!..or the feel of heavy rain on their backs.!!..what an amazingly different scene from that of one in the city... My heart goes out to the people down the coast  now that are copping a lot of this cyclonic depression as it moves south...I see the seas are huge with waves to six or eight meters..There goes a lot of the sand from the beautiful beaches..!!
My thoughts go out to all that damage is minimalised in your areas..and everyone and the animals are safe..
..Well..there is only one place for this and that is in bed with a good book while mother nature tells us to behave a little more kinder to the environment.
  .I look at the world news and see the devistating floods in Germany , France and a lot of eastern Europe also , Texas , Southern China..it certainly looks like the world is getting a cleansing.!!! take care stay safe..