On 4/20/2015 6:53 PM, David Hare-Scott wrote:
I am just about to plant my winter seedlings, mostly brassicas.

That will have to wait for a while since we had 90mm (3 1/2 in) of rain
over night. There has been much more nearer the coast, over 200mm (8in) at
one place. The river is up about 12m (40ft) and the outflow of my dam is
running backwards, that is the dam is filling (well over-filling) from the
river. The soil will be rather too wet for a few days at least.

I will not be going anywhere today as the road will be cut. How long that
remains depends on how much more rain falls today.

Breaking news! A bunch of campers were marooned on the roof of buildings at
the showground of a town near here and two were missing for a while but
appear to have been found. Details are dodgy.



Given the usual drought problems it would be wonderful to be able to store
all of that water until it is needed in the dry season. It don't rain but
it pours.

We were hit by a sudden sky-ripping storm last night. Looked quite
innocuous on the radar map, narrow and fast-moving, but my area must have
experienced a micro burst taking down and breaking large trees and the
power went out at 21:05. It came back for me at 02:30 but some folks up the
road didn't get it back until 10:00. Wouldn't normally care much and I'm
used to it after 16 years but now I have my elderly mom living here and
being in pitch darkness combined with disorientation is not a good
combination. Just as the dawn chorus was starting this morning we had an
instant replay of the storm but at least the power didn't go out again. No
campers on the roof -- they would have probably been blown away.