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Exam and some seriously bad weather
I sat the first of three exams today, in between thunderstorms and a whole lot of rain. The weather has been quite intense the last couple of days, even causing flooding and deaths. (Updated 10/11/04)
First things first, I sat my accounting exam today. Two hours of bean counting! It was alright though... I got most of the questions and problems right, I think, and finished with 10 whole seconds to spare!
Just two more exams and one essay to hand in and I'm (almost) officially done with my Bachelor of Journalism.
Really, really, ridiculously bad weather
Maybe not ridiculously bad... But I like Zoolander - the movie with Ben Stiller - and that quote is my favourite from this movie!
Eh... Getting distracted. What I really wanted to talk about was the weather!
Over the last few days, the weather has been quite schizofrenic... Two days ago it was stinking hot and humid. The thermometer went above 27 degrees Celcius, which isn't really that much. But the humidity made things pretty yucky.
Clothes-stuck-to-skin-and-sweat-pouring-as-soon-as-you-move kind of yucky!
In the evening there was a huge thunderstorm that ruled out any possibility of taking my bike home from Maria's.
Then came yesterday. I conveniently enough decided to journey over to Maria to study just as it started raining and raining... And raining!
The City Cats got all wet indoors because the doors and windows couldn't keep the rainwater out. There was water everywhere in the streets and my umbrella had a hard enough time keeping the upper half of me relatively dry.
Luckily I decided to wear thongs (sandals in Australian!!!), so the little rivers in the streets didn't have much of an effect on me in terms of wet and dripping shoes. My pants were another story...
The evening came and went without much spectacle. However, the morning after (i.e. today) was really humid - around 95% humidity at 0500 - which was kind of yucky as I was out cycling at that time.
Weather gone berserk
It got really sunny and warm (and humid, of course) during the day today, and I wasn't the only sticky person around as I went into my exam.
When I came out again, two hours later, the sky was not very clear anymore... Rather, big grey and blue clouds were gathering up, and now the weather went really berserk...
Maria and I joined some friends for dinner in Sunnybank. As we sat in the outdoors dining area of the foodcourt we were eating at, it started raining cats and dogs and whatever else you can think of that can rain down on you on a really stormy evening...
It was hard talking to each other because the noise of the rain easily drowned normal speech. And the lighting struck more than once just a couple of hundred metres away from us.
On the way back home, the roads and more than a few houses were flooded. We got through. But had the flooding been any worse, we would have been stuck in the car in the middle of the little lake that had formed on the road, just in front of the TV crews that were out filming...
I'm glad we didn't get stuck... Didn't feel like doing car pushing in front of the TV cameras... :p
Sadly...
This may all sound pretty trivial, which - of course - it is... The weather I have described here is quite normal for this time of year in Brisbane and the rest of the Queensland coast.
However, it's not all good fun.
Two girls aged eight and 12 drowned in Bundaberg yesterday as the car they were in was swept by floodwaters into a creek.
A father and his eight-year-old son went missing during flooding, but were later found safe.
Also, many had to be rescued from more or less sticky situations: Three kids got stuck in a creek that flash flooded because of the downpour; two kids had to be helped down from a tree after a body-boarding session in the flooding apparently got a little wild; and a pair had to be rescued off the roof of their car.
The Royal Automobile Club of Queensland (RACQ) received more than 3000 calls from stranded motorists for roadside assistance in just eight hours on Sunday; thousands of homes in the Brisbane area lost electricity for hours; and hail damaged hundreds of homes.
Queensland is quite an interesting state at this time of year!
Related links
More on the two drowned girls:
- Town mourns the loss of two young sisters
- Drowned girls found in creek
More on the missing father and son:
- Hail hits as pair found
More news on the weather:
- Storms cause hail damage...
- Hundreds of homes damaged in QLD rainstorms
- Storms lash QLD for second day
- Downpour causes chaos
Weather forecasts and updates for the region:
- Brisbane metropolitan area forecast
- Last 72 hours from Brisbane
- Weather radar for Southeast Queensland - rainfall LIVE
- The Australian Bureau of Meteorology's QLD pages
Posted by Marius Berg Askildsen
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