Perfect Storm set to hit Australia

Marie5656 · Post by **Marie5656** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:07 am

Just saw this article. Hope our Aussie friends make out OK.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070104/sc ... 0104114339

Tigerlily · Post by **Tigerlily** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:28 pm

I had heard that Australians were having a real problem with lack of water from a friend with rels in Adelaide. Hope the Ozzies do a better job of catching it and hanging on to it than Thames Water.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:54 pm

it is packing 145 mile per hour winds..hope you all stay safe in aussie land.....

lester88 · Post by **lester88** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:57 pm

Good luck to all you Aussies

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 4:30 am

How does that work, paying for your water?

We have water rates here which each household has to pay towards sewage, drains, drinking water etc. we can either have a meter installed and pay for what we use on a quarterly bill or pay a set amount (for large families or heavy domestic users metering is not cost effective).

Is it the same for you or does that level of cost just come in when water is short?

Tigerlily · Post by **Tigerlily** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 1:08 pm

A few hundred yards up from the Thames, and after days of deluges, we are still under a hosepipe ban!! Thames Water (owned by a German firm) have made oodles of profit and my garden looks like a mudbath, after looking like a desert all summer.

I hope they manage the blessed rain better Down Under!

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 5:00 pm

You Aussie's sound like us in California when we have our droughts... :-6 Hope you get just enough rain to make things green again, and no flooding.

Lulu2 · Post by **Lulu2** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 7:46 pm

(Is it time to stop our rain dance now?)

Seriously....is everyone ok? All those fires would've left land liable to flooding....

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:30 am

thanks for answering my question about water. When you can turn on a tap when you like you tend to get a bit complacent about it. We save rainwater in a butt in the garden and buckets when that's full! It seems a scandal to use drinking water on your garden, hubby has been known to syphon off bath water to water the lawn with but I think that's 'cos he's tight and we have a water meter!!

The bugs in the water reminded me of when the local police station was struck down with a mysterious bug that only affected a certain shift. Eventually it was tracked down to a dead pigeon in the tank in the roof and an impatient copper who would run hot water to fill the kettle to boil it quicker! The other shifts were ok 'cos they used the mains cold water!!

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Sat Jan 06, 2007 8:50 am

Diuretic;507176 wrote: I hope he got an appropriate nickname Imladris

Oh he definitely got some stick over it!!