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Hopefully none of the Australian MacGregor members have been adversely affected by the floods

A concerned moderator.

Australia: Worst flooding in decades sweeps away homes and animals https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-56485246

Wow, they were hit hard. I hope they are as safe as can be too.

Thanks for the concern, the floods are receding now. Mainly occured on the southern half of the east coast. Unfortuniately the some of the areas affected also had large bushfires last year and the year before and some have also been in a drought. Good thing though, apparently there was a mouse plague developing in some of the areas - that's been fixed by the rising waters.

Sea shadow,

This is a headline that just came across a news alert.

'Worst mice plague I've ever seen': Millions of rodents descend on eastern Australia

Just waiting for the locusts

Tell us your not serious

Sheechyetchyuck!!!
Don’t you guys ever get a break?
First you get roasted, then you get over-run with vermin, then you get flooded with mud slides and your expecting locusts to liven things up???!!!???

Ya gotta be kidding ....right?

We’d like to hope things get back to “normal” for you over there but as things go you all have had enough of “normal” more than a person deserves!

So we hope everyone is safe, secure and has a very unusually odd series of months, if not years, consisting of nice moderate temperatures, occasional gentle showers, sunny days that aren’t too hot, gentle breezes and a long unbearable period of time where nothing happens but birds singing, grass growing, flowers blooming and way too many days of great sailing weather with the time and resources to do it beyond contentment.

Just jokin about the locusts. Mind you, you are having some weather issues too ie. tornados (we call them cyclones) and cold weather. We might have heat but we don't have the problems in the winter that you have with the snow. BTW in my area (outer east suburbs of Melbourne) we haven't all the problems although right beside where I live is one of three most fire prone area in the world, California, Greece and the Dandenong Ranges in the Victoria, Australia. We haven't had a big fire in our area for a few years now. Currently we are having a mild Autumn (Fall) with rain and sunshine. My biggest problem is mowing the lawn every week. You can almost see the grass grow.

On anther note, being a fair weather sailor, I haven't been able to go out with the boat for a few weeks - not enough clear weather (and not committed to other things) to have a couple of days on the water. Hope to get out at least once more before winter sets in (to put it in perspective we occasaionally get 0 degrees centigrade some mornings during the winter - nothing like your winters).

Touche’

Yup, that’s ours!
We have been fortunate over the decades to have lived in several regions of the US....Texas had weeks of 100 F temps and flash floods (mind you Dallas is near the north central area and it is only about 400 ft above sea level) .... California has had more than is share of wild fires and earth quakes (the Loma Prieta quake took out the bridge I commuted on in the San Francisco Bay not mention the North Shore quake in Southern California) ....New England was a winter wonderland with an accumulation of 8 feet of snow our first winter (then followed that up a couple years later with an ice storm that dropped the power grid for nearly 2 weeks in freezing weather).... South Carolina has been benign to us so far with only a couple near miss occasions with hurricanes (we also missed with the floods and cyclones .....so far). The one thing WE haven’t experienced are the mice . At that point we are gonna give up, move on the boat and be far off shore for the duration! ( As you might guess we can deal with nearly anything but we draw the line at mice!)



Here’s to fine weather... nice breezes🌬... sunny days🌤 ... and pleasant sailing for us all.