uh oh

mrsK · Post by **mrsK** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:01 pm

Weather Channel saying there has been one death because of the storm.

We are getting the warnings here now.

Stay safe Fuzzy.

mrsK · Post by **mrsK** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:52 am

fuzzy butt;823587 wrote: Just recieved a phone call to say it's coming ........I was kinda hoping we'd already had it , but here it comes again :wah:

Yeah a brick wall fell on a woman. It's mostly trees coming down on cars and so forth, the highway is cut off in different places.

Ooh I can here it now just waiting around here for the power to go out .

It's 8:18pm but all is still good lets hope it's a storm in a teacup.:wah:

MRS K this is good news for all of us. The last time this happened it meant the end of the drought (1983) another dust storm for the Mallee and outer Melbourne and chocolate rain !!!!! Lets hope eh?

Fingers crossed for a drought breaker,dust here atm,not to thick but the wind is starting to pick up.

Stay safe :-6

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:17 am

Good luck folks. Let us know how it went.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 2:46 pm

Copuld have been worse - though not for the unfortunate two killed. Any rain? Not in the pics...

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Wed Apr 02, 2008 3:44 pm

fuzzy butt;824501 wrote: Yep this morning and lots of it and it's so cold . I guess we should be all outside dancing in it but we'd probably catch a cold :wah:

It's got me thinking actually . It's kind of put paid to this climate change theory. the cyclces are still happening on a regular basis.

That's good, about the rain.

No such luck on the climate change, I fear. At the moment the symptoms of it are increased amounts of extreme weather - your drought is one example. Are the cyclones getting stronger? More frequent? That's the sort of thing I'd expect to see.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:58 am

fuzzy butt;824760 wrote: Ahhh clodhopper if you ever get the chance try to get a hold of a farmers families log, weather and feed books. Study them. I've seen some that go back a hundred and thirty years and we are actually right on track.

Dont just trust the weather scientists. I don't believe climate change is going to effect our generation but maybe your great great great grandkids. But that's just my opinion.

Yeah the rain is good .....now if the government could find a decent way to collect and hold it it would be much better.

Certainly hope you are right! We definitely are getting more extreme weather than we have had up here - the hottest average temperatures for a month since records began in 1750 or something, wettest and windiest ditto, all in the last ten years, so I'm fairly twitchy about the issue.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Fri Apr 04, 2008 4:29 am

Doomsday Book. chuckle...

Shrug. I don't have children and don't expect to see too massively a great change in the next 40 years, so from a personal pov I'm not too bothered. I live in a beautiful country and don't expect it to turn into a desert overnight.

British meteorologists are very, very good (despite the constant moans about them) and I pay attention to them. They say global warming is happening and we are getting more extreme weather as one of the first symptoms. I believe them.

Some of that warming probably is part of the massive cycles you refer to. According to the IPCC it is "virtually certain" (they define that as more than 99% probable) that human activity is now contributing to the current warming, mostly through atmospheric pollutants, which hang around in the atmosphere for decades, and which the industrialisation of countries like China and India mean are going to be produced in much greater quantities over the next 20 years or so. This means the human contribution to warming is going to increase over the next few decades no matter what we do.

No doubt the "Lucky Country" will continue to be that way...