sunrise
 

another one

plenty of mud here
 

cleaning the mud from one of our dams before the rain comes

Rain So Far
 

Hi All
Just measured again - 36.5mm. In the last four days we have received 90mm or 3.54". I had a quick talk with upstairs and we will be sending more rain east to you Max and Tony.
:D Rainman Bob

Re: Rain So Far
 

It's raining here in Melbourne too. :D

Rain
 

It's official...... Bandiana is wet. VERY WET And about bl**dy time too. The Hume weir was down to less than 3%. For those of you not in the know. The water released from the Hume flows down the Murray River past Corowa. With the water level that low, That is why there was a distinct lack of DUKWS this year. Still a long way to go yet.................................

Place your orders for where and how much rain you neeed and want to fall so I can do a specifics raindance :kangaroo :sheep: :drunk:

Ma Yappy Kartmann

Gympie 50mm a day for 7 days please Ma :D

Please stop that dance, you've flooded Borneo
 

Karmen,

Can you please be a bit more careful with that Rain Dance, you seem to have missed Australia completely...

Look what you have done to poor old Borneo..

Rain in Borneo floods road
28 Apr 2007

A major road in Borneo has been blocked off after heavy rain led to flash floods across the area.

The Borneo Bulletin reports on April 26th that a section of road in Kampong Selayon was flooded out after downpours yesterday morning.

Local people have blamed the flooding on poor drainage in the area, as the road was rendered inaccessible by the two-metre deep (6.6 feet) water.

Residents have called on authorities to improve the drainage across the area, as they complained that the road which connects to Jalan Jerudong is also prone to flooding.


Regards

Nick Balmer

Re: sunrise before the rain
 

Max,

Do you know the old saying,

"Red sky at night, shepherd's delight,
Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning"

So....did it rain, then?

rain report
 

28.6 mm and still raining
Max

Max, that sounds like a flood.

How is your mobile shower?

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Greetings
Chris

Re: rain report
 

I hope you brought Happy in... and are Em's calves ok?

Re: Re: rain report
 

That's a bit personal isn't it jif :eek: :confused

Re: Re: rain report
 

happy snuck into the garden and we sold 16 of the calves and the lady that bought them is very pleased with them
the market was up to
now we are up to 33.6 mm
Max :

Rain...
 

The rain was patchy, but very bloody welcome.
Ranged from a little over an inch to just on 2 inches over the district. We got enough at home to put 7' of water in the well. The farmers are happy & I expect a lot of tractors to fire up very soon & start to sow the winter cerial crops.
HH

You lot...
 

I hope your dams are filling up. The country I saw from both land and air was parched.

Keith -- you can be a cheeky bugger at times. Not that I mind, but somehow you always seem to catch me off-guard. I shall have to work on that. :)

Max -- glad about Happy, sorry about the mini-cows... they were cute as pie and actually listened to me when I spoke to them (unlike most people here). My best to all, Max.

Kathy -- there's a wealth of Blitz-bits on your property, you know the drill, carry on. Stealth Mode is acceptable. ;)

Tony -- Have you dug your trench yet? :teach:

Rainnnn
 

Max, congrats.... lots of rain....(now that is a first in the rain dept)

We had 9mm here on the coast. You will see that we have been getting the lion's share of rain here when you come over.

More is on its way. I just cant tell you when. :)

Ian

Well ... how effective is my raindancin' so far then Master Cliff? :yappy:

raindance
 

it must have been a wounderful dance as it worked for us.It would have been interesting to watch you do a dance, do you have to dress up for the occassion :D
Max

I just wear one of these .... :D

Re: Rain So Far
 

Don't want to (ahem) rain on your parade but earlier this week we had over 200mm of rain in 6 hours and two tornadoes. Here's a pic taken at 1600hrs of the supercell approaching. The lights you see are on the soccer field across the street. They came on prematurely.

Kartmann's Fault
 

Hi Derek
I guess Kartmann got her directions mixed up again when she did her last rain dance. And to get two tornadoes she must have been leaping all over the place.
:D Bob

Retouched pic
 

I've retouched the pic to lighten it up a bit. You can see the cloud nearly extends all the way to the ground. I watched as it approached at over 40 mph. Watched, that is until we received an automated phone message from the National weather Service telling us to hunker down in an interior room and place a mattress over us. Two tornadoes did touch down, but they were in towns on either side of us. We were hit by straight-line winds of 60mph and two sections of our fence blew over. Other than that, we came through Scot-free. Thanks Ma!

more good rain
 

38.3 mm
we have had the tractors working sowing grasses and clovers before the rain came to make hay with in the spring next move is to sow some grain crops and then go on a holiday
Max

Re: more good rain
 

Hi Max
Read in the paper today that rain you got should give OZ a bumper wheat crop this year...
A good mash of wheat will give you some great grain alcohol...
CMP (Driver) fuel...

:drunk: :sheep: :kangaroo :remember :support

Re: Re: more good rain
 

ya know Alex the more you drink, the drunker ya get and the faster these old blitz trucks go, well so it seems anyway
dad said once during the war a few of the boys got hold of some potaos to make a brew up of some sort, wasn't very tasty
Max

Rain
 

You wouldn't recognise this place now...
Had a bit over an inch of rain over a couple of days & the place has turned green instantly.
Thanks Ma for the rain dance...
HH

since last night we have had an inch of good steady rain which has soaked in well. My new lawn which I sowed a few weeks ago is growing well.

good rain
 

we have had more good rain, not as much as the east coast is getting though. Snow has falling on the blue mountains west of Sydney also.
here is a photo Emma and Steve before the last lot of rain working up country and cooking lamb chops for lunch

Have had good rain here too, I haven't had to cart water to the house for two months now so life is getting back to normal at last.