At 07:27 AM Tuesday 9/25/2007, Russell Chapman wrote: >Ray Ludenia wrote: > > Maybe in your neck of the woods, Rob. In Melbourne and most of the > > state of Victoria (and much of the rest of Australia), watering lawns > > is a big no-no. >Of course, a significant region of Victoria (not that far from >Melbourne) suffered terrible flooding with loss of homes, livestock and >infrastructure a month or two ago. >Here we have dams at 21% capacity, virtually no external use of water at >all (and if your shower lasts for 4:01 mins you're in big trouble), but >60 miles up the road, my brother had to use sandbags to keep the >floodwaters out of his kitchen. >Ya gotta love this country... > >Cheers >Russell C.
Not just that one . . . For much of the past several months we've been in a so-called "exceptional" drought (apparently that's the level above such things as "severe" drought and "extreme" drought: whenever I heard that term on the news I kept expecting someone to channel _Spaceballs_ and announce a "ludicrous drought") with Stage 3 water restrictions basically prohibiting outside watering and surcharges for excess water use added to bills (because it has cooled off some and the remnants of Humberto dropped a fair amount of rain on the area a few days ago late last week the PTB announced that the surcharges have been discontinued and some watering will be allowed on certain days) whereas a couple of states while we were in the worst of the drought (you could see where everyone's sewer line was because it was marked by a narrow line of green in the otherwise brown expanse of the lawn) were dealing with flooding and the rain kept on coming and kept on coming and kept on coming . . . Like The Statistician Who Was Lying With His Feet In A Fire And His Head On A Block Of Ice, On Average Things Were Fine Maru -- Ronn in Birmingham, AL :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
