Firstly I'd like to take no credit whatsoever for the above & below photos. I borrowed them from 'the news'.
Secondly I would like to say, at the risk of stripping any yearnings for home from any of my overseas readers, I thought it was only fair that I posted an update on the weather conditions here. Yesterday the skies were furious and Australia's south-east was under attack. There was chaos all over Victoria as winds got up to around 130kph! It was insane. A friend of mine returned to work saying she'd had to cling to a light pole to stop herself blowing down the street, while in front of her, two motorbikes were blown over on the road. Not only did Melbourne have a sort of 'Kansas' type feel, but then, when the SES is already going crazy with people & trees being blown all over the joint, a dust storm comes to the party too! The weather was far from enviable. On my walk to the station I learnt that umbrellas are designed to sheild you from rain that falls very traditionally - straight from above. I think umbrellas would look a lot different if they had been designed for the conditions in which I was trying to use one yesterday 'dirty, horizontal rain with a mission'. It was quite the miracle that my train was running on time and made it all the way home as almost every other line had lost signals and left thousands of people stranded for hours.
Secondly I would like to say, at the risk of stripping any yearnings for home from any of my overseas readers, I thought it was only fair that I posted an update on the weather conditions here. Yesterday the skies were furious and Australia's south-east was under attack. There was chaos all over Victoria as winds got up to around 130kph! It was insane. A friend of mine returned to work saying she'd had to cling to a light pole to stop herself blowing down the street, while in front of her, two motorbikes were blown over on the road. Not only did Melbourne have a sort of 'Kansas' type feel, but then, when the SES is already going crazy with people & trees being blown all over the joint, a dust storm comes to the party too! The weather was far from enviable. On my walk to the station I learnt that umbrellas are designed to sheild you from rain that falls very traditionally - straight from above. I think umbrellas would look a lot different if they had been designed for the conditions in which I was trying to use one yesterday 'dirty, horizontal rain with a mission'. It was quite the miracle that my train was running on time and made it all the way home as almost every other line had lost signals and left thousands of people stranded for hours.
