Totally OT - rain never looked so good

[Guest jonpoint]

I know it's OT but here's a change for the cards.Jon Point*************************(effyouthree@hotmail.com)*************************

[Guest R_Driscoll]

Bye bye bushfires ...Hello fresh air !!!!!(Although I've never understood why people live in the bush. Howcan you trust air you can't see?)Rob D.

[Guest juvat2]

Robert,It must be a riot to sit through your speeches. Jim.

[Guest Staggerwing]

Let's hope it continues for a while now and comes back on a regular basis :-)(are you having another big auto race to make it rain ? :-))

[Guest Ansgar]

Hi Jon,hopefully now everything gets better and you have stable rain periods around there in australia.Be happy you didn

[Guest jonpoint]

Thanks, Ansgar!Yep, we got nearly two days' good rain on the coast but very little out west (not that one would expect much this time of year). The sun's out now (5:30PM, 11th Dec.) but it's still ~20 degrees so most of the water will stay where it is for a few days hopefully.You are correct about too much rain - in these conditions about 2 days is good, 4 days is a flood! This is normal for Oz though - 4 years of drought followed by 6 weeks of rain... Mud avalanches aren't THAT much of a worry here though, mostly just a lot of boggy ground which takes weeks to dry out. When I was young, we had three paddocks on the farm that you didn't go near between February and April - black soil :-(Jon Point*************************(effyouthree@hotmail.com)*************************