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 ztnoo
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 05:31 AM |
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Aussie Meltdown
Good Lord guys, I've been reading about the heat wave in southern Australia.
Holy Moley!!!!
"Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city recorded its third consecutive day of temperatures above 109 F for the first time since 1855, when
record-keeping began, the Bureau of Meteorology said.
The temperature in Melbourne topped 113 F on Friday.....
Adelaide, the other major city on the south coast, is expected to match its longest heat wave in a century by Monday, with six consecutive days
exceeding 104 F. The heat there buckled train and tram lines."
How is everyone holding up???
Sounds very serious.
Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........
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LUFTMEISTER
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 06:11 AM |
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This is Australia 
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die-
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold-
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land-
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand-
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.
Dorothea Mackellar
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grogy
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 07:00 AM |
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poetry
ah the days when people learned poetry
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ztnoo
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 08:00 AM |
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absolutely beautiful..............
Regards,
Steve
Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........
* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !
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donn
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 08:41 AM |
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Tops, old it may be but that is the land of Oz, we were talking about that very thing just last Monday.
I dream of a day when a chicken can cross a road without being asked for it's motive!
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 09:43 AM |
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super hot down here atm
saw this pic from a mate down here
http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=PqKKoc9
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General_Failure
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 10:29 AM |
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ehehe. Where is that ice cream truck? I always enjoy that sort of art.
It's insanely hot here around Shepparton. I was going to get the other aircon out of storage, but it's too hot!
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wiked_storm
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 11:30 AM |
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Well everyone else is being brave about it but THE HEAT IS KILLING ME!!!! WAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! 
It never used to be so bad when you could go out the back and sit under the hose or fill up the blowup pool out the back or grab out the good ole
water slide...but with the water restrictions even that is out of the question.
I cant wait for the heat wave to be over!
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MickH
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 11:39 AM |
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You'd be dropping like flies if it was humid....hopefully it will be over soon,bushfires as well!!! Thats gotta suck....
tssnq.com.au
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eraser
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 01:07 PM |
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Yar its bloody hot here, we also dont have enough power to run everyones air conditioners, so we have rolling blackouts, and then you have the
transformers over heating and dieing.
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wiked_storm
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 02:40 PM |
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Yeah that happened to us yesterday. Transformer overheated and half the houses this side of Orange went out....mine included. Couldnt even have my fan
on....all i could do was keep spraying myself with a spray bottle to try and keep cool!
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57 oval
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| posted on January 31st, 2009 at 05:30 PM |
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We are on about our fith day of 44/45 C. Cant even go down to the shed, You sweat just being down there. The ambient temp on the dash of the ute hasnt
dropped below 30C on the way to work each morning and I leave at 630 am. most lunch times over the last week it reads 47C.. makes for a good excuse to
have a nice cold beer.
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Turbo54
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| posted on February 1st, 2009 at 04:44 PM |
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I hear ya 57 oval, driving to work half naked every morning so I am not wet throught by the time I reach the office. Bring on 35 degrees this week.
THe upside is that I went snorkeling this morning at 7am and the water was warm and plently of fish! A big school of snapper cruised past and looked
great until I thought about what eats snapper and then it was time to get out.
T54
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ztnoo
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| posted on February 5th, 2009 at 09:39 AM |
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How about some temp updates from from Down Under?
Regards,
Steve
Fine tuning the proper daily ratio of Maxwell House to Bacardi 151.........
* Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia !
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Kimbo
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| posted on February 5th, 2009 at 12:26 PM |
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As at 13:00 Adelaide time 5th Feb, and the "humid" for Adelaide is an undestatement, this is more like FNQ weather:
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dogo
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| posted on February 5th, 2009 at 02:32 PM |
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Adelaides Maximum Temp
Sun 25/01/2009 30.4
Mon 26/01/2009 36.6
Tue 27/01/2009 43.2 (min temp 30.7)
Wed 28/01/2009 45.7 (min temp 33.6)
Thu 29/01/2009 43.4 (min temp 29.4)
Fri 30/01/2009 43.1
Sat 31/01/2009 41.1
Sun 01/02/2009 40.6
Mon 02/02/2009 38.8
Tue 03/02/2009 36.3
Wed 04/02/2009 33.0
Currently (Thursday 3pm) it's a mild 34.7
Forecast high Fri 06/02/2009 43
Forecast high Sat 07/02/2009 41
Anyone know how to fit Air Conditioning into a '74 'L' Bug?
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57 oval
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| posted on February 6th, 2009 at 09:07 PM |
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Anyone know how to fit Air Conditioning into a '74 'L' Bug?
sure do
open the windows
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