Flooded! And my images published.
It has been absolutely pouring all week. We had a brief respite yesterday, but it is bucketing down again. Our rain so far for the week to 9am yesterday for the 3 days was 272.5 – we’ll be reading it soon. And it is still coming.
Updated: 24 hours to 9am Friday 27 Jan 2012 – 49mm Weeks’s total to 9am – 311.5
We went out Wednesday morning and got the 9kg gas bottle filled in case of power outages, and stocked up with groceries, to make sure we had enough cat food, veges etc. All the roads we used were closed by 1pm!
I sent seven pics from out morning excursion, including the one above, to the Tweed News and they are in their photo gallery from the floods. The #10-16 are mine – has my name at the top.
The ABC website also used this image.
And the Sydney Morning Herald website slideshow has used them too. Nice to get a bit of coverage!
52/2012 – A Shot a Week Project – Week One
I’ve decided to dedicate to posting at least a shot a week during 2012. I beiefly toyed with a shot a day but decided not at the moment, maybe next year!
So here is my effort for Week One – Mischievous Marmie
When it is time to prepare the dinner at our house, the 6 cats go a bit ballistic. This is our elder statesman, Marmaduke the Marmalade Cat (Marmie for short) under a footstool in the dining room in the middle of a play with Master Yoda.
We usually intervene to keep these two apart as Marmie lost all his teeth to gingivitis a few years ago and Yoda is inclined to play hard and bite, but they were enjoying themselves so much last night I just kept an eye on them.
You can see where Yoda is next going to attack from by marmie’s eye position!
Lumix FZ35
Made the (Electronic) front page!
Yesterday while quietly mooching around at home my OH suddenly heard a chopper – landing right next door!
We hot-footed it up there and found the SES & RFS pilot conferring on the best spot to return with a load of sandbags. Later that afternoon they came back and I captured this shot of them delivering sandbags for the Banora Point SES Centre.
While delighted to be included on the front page gallery and in the article, a proper credit would have been nice. They did give me full credit in the photo gallery – a small consolation I guess.
A couple of other shots from the day below
The RFS Chopper takes off through the goal posts in heavy rain on the first run
Sandbag delivery
Original image of the NSW RFS chopper delivering sandbags
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