Crikey it’s wet

[nomadpete]

6 hours ago, old man emu said:

Although I'm not getting any rain, I'm getting strong winds. It is strange. The wind seems to start about 10:30 pm and blows strongly until about 9:00 am the next morning. Then it weakens and goes calm for most of the day. When it is blowing, the wind speed is high enough to break limbs from trees.

Sounds like a great spot for a wind turbine.

[old man emu]

Apparently a wind farm is going to be created about 15 kms southwest of my place. 

[facthunter]

Will THAT get off the ground?  Nev

[old man emu]

I think that the company constructing the windmills will have to be propped up.

[facthunter]

They are called "Turbines" for some reason . Extremely efficient Variable Pitch Blades.   A Moving Piece of ART. . Like a good aeroplane or Sailboat.  Nev

 

[facthunter]

At SOME Places.. Nev

[old man emu]

Sarturay night Camden NSW recorded a totoal of 140 mm of rain. The Camden area over the p[ast 20 years and more so recently has been turned from open grazing land to residential estates. Remember the old song Tar and Cement ? The area was always prone to flooding as it lies in the valley of the Nepean/Hawkesbury River. With all that grazing land now covered with roads and houses, I reckon the flooding will be of biblical proporttions.

 

Meanwhile, the Sun till shines and Maria blows.

 

 

[facthunter]

They SURE Put houses in Silly Places. Money Talks. Nev

[onetrack]

Developers always want to make millions from every scrap of "available" land and are intent on ignoring flood plain water height records - and they always manage to capture shire councillors to support them. They either bribe the councillors or dazzle them with the level of extra income the council will get from the development.

 

Nearly every country in the world is the same. Americans keep building in the floodplain of the mighty Mississippi - and every Mississippi flood is bigger and higher than the last one, because all the developments slow up the downstream movement of floodwaters, so the flooding upstream becomes worse.