I have been busy and away for a while, nothing to do with computers. One of the reasons was to try help out in the country, but its a losing battle.
We have not had any decent rain for 12 months and now there are towns that are going to run dry before xmas. The drought is the worst in 100 years maybe longer. Suicides amongst property owners is high and walk-offs are the norm. There are places that have had no wet for 40 years, but most places are destroying stock or have reduced it to paltry levels. Sydney is in the grip of nasty fires with varying gusting winds that turn on the firefighters, they lost a water tender today. A snmall comunity near Sydney lost 15 homes last night and tonight is predicted to be worse. Everything is tinder dry and I am talking 75% or more of Australia. Some fire were started by careless smokers throwing butts away, so they have made is 10 yrs jail if caught doing just that. There are also arsonist children, they are being charged as adults. They have projected a loss of 53% in the GNP for the next 6 months, whilst produce in the stores is vanishing and prices are skyrocketting. Ther is no sign of relief, yesterday was 38 here with 90% humidity, today 36 and gusty NW winds from the Solomons. The weather predictions are that we will not see rain before April/May, by that time ther will be nothing green and no animals. We are ssing birds that we do not see normally coming to the coast for feed. Roos and Emus are also migrating to the coast and causing accidents on the roads, hitting a roo at night very often writes the small vehicle off; kills too. I actually saw a dingo 5 mins from our house a couple of days ago, that can be frightening with small kids around. There have been prayer meetings for rain and even had an 'Indian' do a rain dance all to no avail, it is being blamed on El Nino, but one wonders where it will all end, but water is at a premium 'liquid gold' literally. -- Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
