Wednesday I decided I'd work from home - around 9.00 am the rains came and didn't stop all day. Not just drizzle but great huge buckets of torrential rain were tipped all over Melbourne and Victoria.
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This is the water that flows less than one kilometre to our lovely Port Phillip Bay.
With it flows any garbage that thoughtless people may decide to empty
from their vehicle instead of the recycling bin at home. |
Our street became a small river as the flow of water either side of our street met in the middle. Any depression in the ground surface became a small pond. The front lawn took on the feel of a sodden carpet in a beer house.
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| And she said more wet weather to come. |
All this overflow finds its way down the drains taking with it rubbish from the gutters. The other day as I drove into my street I saw the packaging of a finished McDonald's meal. Rather than taking the rubbish home some person stopped at the corner, opened the car door to leave his/her garbage in OUR street. It's most probably now somewhere in OUR Port Phillip bay.
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| The forecast for the rest of the week looks like more wetness but with temperatures almost tropical. |
After all the rains we've had, I see our water reserves have now reached close to 53% capacity. That might not sound great but some of the dams are full capacity while some still need a top-up.
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| Scenes from the Melbourne torrential rains experienced this week. |
Hopefully the weekend will bring less rains because my lawns are growing very quickly. I think this weekend might be the time to purchase a motor mower. I love my push mower but the grass is longer and I'm older.
Friday night I'm taking my father to watch the bike racing at the indoor velodrome. There's a race on that I won in the early 70s that's been run since 1925. We'll do some father/son bonding over a Guinness or two.
Sunday Sue and I have a dinner to attend on Sunday night at an Indian Restaurant called "Roti Boti", how appropriate.
I can feel a weekend blog happening.
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