Blue Moon

Greg · 01-10-2008, 11:47 AM

Here's an interesting anomaly: There are no blue moons this year.

shorty943 · 01-11-2008, 03:48 AM

Bugger.

Well that's set plan "a" back a bit then.

Greg · 01-11-2008, 11:42 AM

Yeah, so much of our lives depend on that blue moon.

shorty943 · 01-11-2008, 11:36 PM

Well, it's back to "one of these days" then.

Greg · 01-12-2008, 08:04 PM

Of course, this probably means that we'll have two blue moons next year!

shorty943 · 01-13-2008, 01:22 AM

Damn, twice as busy. Wouldn't you just know it.

Greg · 01-13-2008, 03:26 AM

Yeah, whatever you do once in a blue moon will happen twice! Better rest up for it!

shorty943 · 01-17-2008, 08:45 PM

It's not working.

Cattle bellowing, wind blowing a gale, (the hill is getting bigger, so the farm is getting bigger) lots of dry blowing sand. Hot and hot running water in every house. And the east coast of Australia is currently being washed across to the west coast of South America. From just north of Sydney, all the way north up the east coast, they have had over 6 months rain since Christmas.
But. The mountain range we call the Great Dividing Range, makes a big J shape all the way down the east coast, and a rotten great watershed rain shadow.
No rain in the farm lands where we need it and the coast is being washed into the sea.
There are no beaches left at all on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts tourist regions. Most of the Great Barrier Reef islands have been evacuated, and were empty and storm ripped before New Year.

The TV news tells me you guys are getting some odd snow and chill as well.
Lots of snow. A really nasty freeway accident last week in Florida.
Of course you poor souls, have the looney's who want to rebuild New Orleans in the same idiot 8 feet below sea level death basin it was stupidly built in the first place. And not an educated scientist in the world can teach them they will die again if they do.

Has anybody told the united cuckoo's of the world, the climate has already changed. Has already changed more times than we can know.
And will everyday for ever anyway.

It's air and stuff. It's fluid. It's everchanging.
The only constant in the weather is that it changes constantly.

Oh, and the best thing in my life so far this year, was a dentist appointment last Friday.

The worst.

The family now has to prepare to say goodbye to the eldest of us.
Eldest brother, cancer has the better of him now.
Army man, Vietnam Vet, 63 years old, and always the idol of my life.

Damn, my friends, this one is really hard. By comparison, it was so easy to hold my uncle, my father's baby brother, in my arms, at Dad's passing.

This news just after Christmas has me wrecked.

Can't eat, can't sleep, can't stop crying.

Don't know what the hell I'll be like when does pass.

Give the people you love, a really big hug, just because you love them.

Greg · 01-18-2008, 12:33 AM

No snow here but it's pretty cold; below 40°F tonight with a strong, steady wind from due north. I heard that they're having mixed rain and snow at my old homestead up near Dallas. Dallas always did have all the fun.

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother, Shorty. Darn.

shorty943 · 01-18-2008, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg

No snow here but it's pretty cold; below 40°F tonight with a strong, steady wind from due north. I heard that they're having mixed rain and snow at my old homestead up near Dallas. Dallas always did have all the fun.

I'm so sorry to hear about your brother, Shorty. Darn.

Thank's mate. Cold? wots cold?

I'd like a night below 40C.

Sita · 01-18-2008, 01:21 AM

oh heck Shorty, that's hard.
So sorry. <<hugs across the world>>

And that about the beaches - that's really scarey. We don't get to hear what's happening over there. Sounds like a really bad summer for you.

shorty943 · 01-18-2008, 01:45 AM

Thank you Sita, it does help to have someone to talk things out with.

And as for the weather? Hell, we only get summer here.
We hate winter, it's all cold and wet, and that would be so nice for a change.
It's the shape of the country. Wet rainy mountains to the east, wet rainy mountains to the west. And I live in the middle where it is hot and dry and dusty, then summer hits.

homerette · 01-18-2008, 04:45 AM

Truly sorry to hear about your brother, shorty. You have my sympathy and prayers.

Zenmistress · 01-18-2008, 08:13 PM

So sorry to hear about your brother, Shorty. Its never easy to lose someone you love. I try to remember to be grateful for the time we were able to share.

(((hugs)))

Sita · 01-19-2008, 12:58 AM

/me looks outside the window and scoops up some cold wind and rain to send to Shorty. We have plenty!

Greg · 01-19-2008, 02:31 AM

Same here, Sita! I was surprised to hear thunder on a cold winter's night but that's what's happening in Houston at the moment.

shorty943 · 01-21-2008, 03:15 AM

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Originally Posted by homerette

Truly sorry to hear about your brother, shorty. You have my sympathy and prayers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zenmistress

So sorry to hear about your brother, Shorty. Its never easy to lose someone you love. I try to remember to be grateful for the time we were able to share.

(((hugs)))

Thank you ladies. Thank you all, for your kind words and thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Sita

/me looks outside the window and scoops up some cold wind and rain to send to Shorty. We have plenty!

Nyah nyah, you missed. Close though. It's raining in the countries main river system catchment now. For the first time in 5 years, there is good rain, on the "channel country".

LOTS OF RAIN.

3 months worth of "average" rain, fell out of the sky in 1 week.
2\3 of inland Queensland, is now suddenly under 6.5 meters of flood water.
1.2 million square kilometers of land, suddenly under water.
That's bigger than Belgium. Under water, and still rising.
Down here, at the estuary end of the system, where I live.
We are currently seeing the lowest river levels in modern written history.
We are at 3 feet, or about 1 meter, below sea level and keeping the salt water, out of our state capital city drinking water with barrage walls.
It will take 2 to 3 months for the flood waters to get down here from about 2,000 miles away up stream.
River miles that is. They are very winding miles.

Looking forward to seeing some water in the river again.

That only happens once in a blue moon too.

Greg · 01-21-2008, 12:12 PM

Aha! The Great Blue Moon Conspiracy comes to South Australia!

shorty943 · 01-21-2008, 10:24 PM

It's happened again already. Damned mountains.
The northern extent of the rains fell too far north. The Nogoa River, is running at 15.1 meters above normal, but it flows east out into the Pacific. The Fairburn Dam, built in the 1970's is for the first time ever at 100%, and overflowing, at a rate of 100 million liters per day. 4 liters to the US gallon, is a lot of water. All going east into the Pacific.
The flood waters coming our way, into the Barwon, the Darling, and the Murray system, are only at 6.5 meters. Bugger. That's only a little over 20 feet of water. That's not enough. It's a very big river and flood plain system to fill back up.

Damned this, Blue Moon Waters, Conspiracy.

More rain, west of the mountains, please Hughie!

Greg · 01-21-2008, 11:27 PM

Maybe you could just drill a hole through the mountains?

01-10-2008, 11:47 AM	#1
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Blue Moon Here's an interesting anomaly: There are no blue moons this year. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-11-2008, 11:42 AM	#3
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Yeah, so much of our lives depend on that blue moon. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-12-2008, 08:04 PM	#5
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Of course, this probably means that we'll have two blue moons next year! __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-13-2008, 03:26 AM	#7
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Yeah, whatever you do once in a blue moon will happen twice! Better rest up for it! __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-18-2008, 12:33 AM	#9
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	No snow here but it's pretty cold; below 40°F tonight with a strong, steady wind from due north. I heard that they're having mixed rain and snow at my old homestead up near Dallas. Dallas always did have all the fun. I'm so sorry to hear about your brother, Shorty. Darn. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-11-2008, 03:48 AM	#2
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Bugger. Well that's set plan "a" back a bit then.

01-11-2008, 11:36 PM	#4
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Well, it's back to "one of these days" then.

01-13-2008, 01:22 AM	#6
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Damn, twice as busy. Wouldn't you just know it.

01-17-2008, 08:45 PM	#8
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	It's not working. Cattle bellowing, wind blowing a gale, (the hill is getting bigger, so the farm is getting bigger) lots of dry blowing sand. Hot and hot running water in every house. And the east coast of Australia is currently being washed across to the west coast of South America. From just north of Sydney, all the way north up the east coast, they have had over 6 months rain since Christmas. But. The mountain range we call the Great Dividing Range, makes a big J shape all the way down the east coast, and a rotten great watershed rain shadow. No rain in the farm lands where we need it and the coast is being washed into the sea. There are no beaches left at all on the Gold and Sunshine Coasts tourist regions. Most of the Great Barrier Reef islands have been evacuated, and were empty and storm ripped before New Year. The TV news tells me you guys are getting some odd snow and chill as well. Lots of snow. A really nasty freeway accident last week in Florida. Of course you poor souls, have the looney's who want to rebuild New Orleans in the same idiot 8 feet below sea level death basin it was stupidly built in the first place. And not an educated scientist in the world can teach them they will die again if they do. Has anybody told the united cuckoo's of the world, the climate has already changed. Has already changed more times than we can know. And will everyday for ever anyway. It's air and stuff. It's fluid. It's everchanging. The only constant in the weather is that it changes constantly. Oh, and the best thing in my life so far this year, was a dentist appointment last Friday. The worst. The family now has to prepare to say goodbye to the eldest of us. Eldest brother, cancer has the better of him now. Army man, Vietnam Vet, 63 years old, and always the idol of my life. Damn, my friends, this one is really hard. By comparison, it was so easy to hold my uncle, my father's baby brother, in my arms, at Dad's passing. This news just after Christmas has me wrecked. Can't eat, can't sleep, can't stop crying. Don't know what the hell I'll be like when does pass. Give the people you love, a really big hug, just because you love them.

01-18-2008, 01:21 AM	#11
Sita Solar Max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: England Posts: 371	oh heck Shorty, that's hard. So sorry. <<hugs across the world>> And that about the beaches - that's really scarey. We don't get to hear what's happening over there. Sounds like a really bad summer for you.

01-18-2008, 01:45 AM	#12
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	Thank you Sita, it does help to have someone to talk things out with. And as for the weather? Hell, we only get summer here. We hate winter, it's all cold and wet, and that would be so nice for a change. It's the shape of the country. Wet rainy mountains to the east, wet rainy mountains to the west. And I live in the middle where it is hot and dry and dusty, then summer hits.

01-18-2008, 04:45 AM	#13
homerette Day late & a dollar short Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: central VA Posts: 206	Truly sorry to hear about your brother, shorty. You have my sympathy and prayers. __________________ May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.

01-18-2008, 08:13 PM	#14
Zenmistress Solar Max Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 153	So sorry to hear about your brother, Shorty. Its never easy to lose someone you love. I try to remember to be grateful for the time we were able to share. (((hugs))) __________________ Sandy All my life, I wanted to be somebody... now I see that I should have been more specific.

01-19-2008, 12:58 AM	#15
Sita Solar Max Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: England Posts: 371	/me looks outside the window and scoops up some cold wind and rain to send to Shorty. We have plenty!

01-19-2008, 02:31 AM	#16
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Same here, Sita! I was surprised to hear thunder on a cold winter's night but that's what's happening in Houston at the moment. __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-21-2008, 12:12 PM	#18
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Aha! The Great Blue Moon Conspiracy comes to South Australia! __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?

01-21-2008, 10:24 PM	#19
shorty943 Banned Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 805	It's happened again already. Damned mountains. The northern extent of the rains fell too far north. The Nogoa River, is running at 15.1 meters above normal, but it flows east out into the Pacific. The Fairburn Dam, built in the 1970's is for the first time ever at 100%, and overflowing, at a rate of 100 million liters per day. 4 liters to the US gallon, is a lot of water. All going east into the Pacific. The flood waters coming our way, into the Barwon, the Darling, and the Murray system, are only at 6.5 meters. Bugger. That's only a little over 20 feet of water. That's not enough. It's a very big river and flood plain system to fill back up. Damned this, Blue Moon Waters, Conspiracy. More rain, west of the mountains, please Hughie! Last edited by shorty943 : 01-21-2008 at 10:31 PM.

01-21-2008, 11:27 PM	#20
Greg Da Guy Wut Owns Dis Joint Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 3,566	Maybe you could just drill a hole through the mountains? __________________ Who are all these people and what do they know?