“I love a sunburnt country, A land of sweeping plains, Of ragged mountain ranges, Of droughts and flooding rains.” My Country – Dorothea McKellar We have certainly had plenty of the flooding rains of late, hopefully enough to break the drought that had been impacting many parts of the country for several years! The quote(s) […]
A good news story – corporate supports the community
Over recent weeks a large chunk of this country has been under water, the worst impacted areas are in Queensland. Here is a map showing the impacted area. One of the major economic impacts of this flooding has been on the coal mining industry. Estimates of the cost to the coal industry are up to […]
… the unexpected knowns
I took this photo a couple of years back in Berlin. I guess it was really lucky that I was there on a day they had all this snow – and it must have been fairly lucky that these to guys had the gear required to go out running in the snow. Either that or […]
… volcanic ash risk
Uncertainty rules! I guess everybody has heard about the volcano in Iceland and how it has led to the grounding of most air traffic in Western Europe. I read something today asserting that airlines should have plans in place for this kind of thing. What rubbish! Incidents like this cannot be predicted – and as a […]
… “cell storm” disruption
Over the weekend the city of Melbourne was hit by a heavy hail storm. Storms have also hit the headlines in Europe and the USA is recent months as the cause of disruption. Three years ago a similar cell storm caused considerable damage to the commerical centre of Canberra. We read about these being extreme […]