A pongy derailment in Bananaland
 

G'day,
This summer is certainly different to the last.
Torrential rain is tumbling in many regions causing flooding.
And, Bananaland is copping a lot of that flooding.
A fertilizer train has gone bush as a result of a wash-away.
13 cars of fertilizer dumped everywhere.
Be able to smell that for a while.
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Just had a torrential storm rumble through here.
One clap of thunder almost instantaneously following the lightning flash.
Me whole house shook.
Musta hit something nearby.
No fertilizer on the ground here though.
Me woeful lawn could probably do with a good dump of fertilizer on it.
Steve.

Yo Steve.

More wagons in the dirt? This is getting pretty regular.

So.....

1) Ya had fires last year
2) You've got floods this year
3) If I were a betting man I'd expect a plague of locusts next year. The East Africans already got them, poor luvs ....Horrid Nasty Things

Only kidding. But it isn't funny, things are getting pretty Biblical nowadays :(

Keep safe, BW

I bet the shuteen (African word for bush) in happy to get a bit of extra food. Most of the track back home was lifted quite a way above the local land with very thick layers of ballast. Even more so in cuttings. Deep ditches were also dug alongside the track in the cuttings to drain the water off. Mind you, we did not have as many miles of track as Australia, and there was plenty of labor willing to earn a bob or two keeping the lines clear .

We don't want locusts, but we already got the plague.
Them covid cases are edging ever closer to Bathurst.
Not sure what size locusts you lot cop, but the usual ones here are not massive in size.
They do make a mess of yer windscreen when motoring around the bush when the things are active.
And they can sting yer face if riding yer motor bike with the helmet visor up.
They can definitely strip a crop down to the ground though.
The QR was built very cheaply.
Most bridges are low level to permit the flood waters to flow over the top and not do damage from debris.
The only thing that I would be very worried about in flood waters up north are them things with very sharp teeth.
There be a photo of the main drag in Cairns with a torrent flowing down it and a salty croc wading along.
When it comes time for that Ark to float off again, they can leave them salties behind and shove the unicorns inside instead.
Steve.