A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Well the rain fell and it fell hard on the east coast this past couple of weeks. Here in Sunny Queensland flash flooding, record maximum rainfall, emergency evacuations, & cyclonic conditions were the order of the day. As daily average rainfall levels reached 200mm from the city of Brisbane to the Tweed river all along the eastern seaboard and inner west, residents & businesses were left stranded. Contemplating the salvage efforts and what to do with water-logged belongings, locals have been left scratching their heads. 'What has mother nature wrought upon us?', you can almost hear them saying in the photographs.
Indeed, the past year mother nature has been peculiarly cruel to the residents of Queensland with multiple floods and stormy weather hitting the region and, according to news sources is set to continue.
I'm not a religious man but have we been sent a signal from above? Is this some sort of catalyst perhaps. A sort of Noah's flood washing away the detritus. We've become complacent, imo. Living in a world of excess does that to a man. There has to be a limit. We have inherited the financial crisis of the 1930s and thanks to the habits borne out of the 1980s we are in the middle of a global recession.
The greed never stopped. We have been 'gifted' economic stimulus money to get us(us or them?) out of this funk. Save less, spend more. Save the economy, spend more. Save yourself! Spend more!
A hard rain's a-gonna fall Dylan sang, like a father telling his son or some wayward boy not to go too far. Good 'ol Bob has atoned for many of our sins just by writing those ballads.
A hard rain indeed, we have a lot to answer for.
Well the rain fell and it fell hard on the east coast this past couple of weeks. Here in Sunny Queensland flash flooding, record maximum rainfall, emergency evacuations, & cyclonic conditions were the order of the day. As daily average rainfall levels reached 200mm from the city of Brisbane to the Tweed river all along the eastern seaboard and inner west, residents & businesses were left stranded. Contemplating the salvage efforts and what to do with water-logged belongings, locals have been left scratching their heads. 'What has mother nature wrought upon us?', you can almost hear them saying in the photographs.
Indeed, the past year mother nature has been peculiarly cruel to the residents of Queensland with multiple floods and stormy weather hitting the region and, according to news sources is set to continue.
I'm not a religious man but have we been sent a signal from above? Is this some sort of catalyst perhaps. A sort of Noah's flood washing away the detritus. We've become complacent, imo. Living in a world of excess does that to a man. There has to be a limit. We have inherited the financial crisis of the 1930s and thanks to the habits borne out of the 1980s we are in the middle of a global recession.
The greed never stopped. We have been 'gifted' economic stimulus money to get us(us or them?) out of this funk. Save less, spend more. Save the economy, spend more. Save yourself! Spend more!
A hard rain's a-gonna fall Dylan sang, like a father telling his son or some wayward boy not to go too far. Good 'ol Bob has atoned for many of our sins just by writing those ballads.
A hard rain indeed, we have a lot to answer for.
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sarcasm not intended.
i was being serious
"you are deep"
jc
xxx
is your place ok?