Wild and Wet

June 2nd, 2008

Ann St Fortitude Valley - Monday, June 2. Picture: Bruce Long
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In our humble little town know as Brisbane, the excitement that a little rain creates is pretty amazing. Our dam levels are low and we are living with Level 6 Water Restrictions and people are even asking the question whether its environmentally friendly to drink 8 glasses of water a day. You can’t even wash your boat down after a day of sailing.

So to us, water from the sky is like liquid gold. As you can imagine, the whole region has been pretty stocked with what we are currently experiencing, over 150mm is certain areas! But with the rain, there came wind, and lots of it. And that meant…

Canceling sailing on the weekend. Canceling the sailing school classes. The yacht club was a ghost town.

And today it’s Monday - the wild weather is still with us.

Downtown Brisbane has been flooding and one of the main arteries into and out of the city is resembling the log ride and Dreamworld and Disneyland.

But if things don’t calm down, then the Etchells fleet are going to have a pretty hard time crossing the bar at Mooloolaba for the Musto Etchells Midwinter Championships coming up this weekend…

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