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Also reports from V Line that sections of the track have been damaged around Moe, Yarragon and Trafalgar. http://www.vline.com.au/home/news/gippslandservicechanges/346282426/article.aspx Updated 07:50 - Wed 23 March Further to earlier updates, extensive delays are now being experienced on the Gippsl...

Drove out to Warragul for a 2.30 appointment this arvo. Passed through a crazy 1 minute downpour on the highway between Longwarry and Drouin that had me a bit concerned. Road was quickly turning into a swimming pool and the drops were fat, thick and heavy. Amazing. Drove out the other side and into ...

Using seawater was a desperate last resort. From what I can gather, one of the big concerns now is that the seawater will have done irreparable damage to much of the precision mechanical parts involved in operating the reactors. [Edit to add] I think I remember reading that it has some sort of corro...

Ah ok that would explain it. Thanks The area of the site I've bookmarked only shows 5.0M+ quakes.

Yeah was wondering the same thing! Looking like Melbourne and central areas are going to miss out all together today going by the current radar image.

Mildura radar seems to be playing up too. I can't get it to run a loop at all.

Strange that the 5.1M hasn't been recorded on the USGS site!

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ ... es_big.php

Wondering what we aren't being told???????? I suspect there's some concern over who they're going to get to replace the team of 50 when they have to pull them out. Surely they must be close to the upper limit of exposure by now. If these are their most experienced workers in the field, a replacemen...

Harley I can't guarantee 100% accuracy of this article but as far as I know the NYT doesn't dish out sensationalism. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/16/world/asia/16nuclear.html?src=twrhp Quote from the article... The two critical questions over the next day or so are how much radioactive material is...

Thanks Lily. It's difficult at times like this to sort the sensationalist journalism from the real facts. I came across this article in my travels which seems to state just the facts. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704838804576196760647909824.html Let's hope whatever is really happeni...

mick » Sun Mar 13, 2011 5:26 am[/url]" One reactor blown up, 5 more critical. I hope the wind is not blowing towards us. Mick is that official? Do you have a link? I can't find any info about a reactor blowing up. Yesterday officials said these type of reactors won't explode. They may go into ...

Ugh! What a pain in the rear!

There are some tips here on keeping them out of the house. More interesting ideas and info in the comments below too. Hope you find something useful in there.

http://www.howtoaustralia.com.au/pest_c ... illipedes/

Waterbaby, according to this news article the millipedes are enjoying the wet conditions we've had lately.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/rains ... -pv44.html

RE: plant growth i reckon it is lots of cloud cover. Plants can do very well under green shade cloth. That's true for some of the more tender veggies but most do far better in full sun for a good 8 hours a day. If they're not doing well in full sun it's most likely a problem with the soil. Either i...

Yep, huntsmen in the house were always a sure sign of heavy rain coming, both here in Ashwood and at Garfield. Over the last 5 or 6 years though there are fewer of them around and we rarely see them now. Kookaburras usually start laughing when it's going to rain within 12 hours. Long trails of ants ...

Hi Mean temperatures are calculated by adding the daily maximum temperature and the daily minimum temperature, and dividing by two. Aha! That explains a lot! Since the most abundant greenhouse gas is water vapour, and we've had higher than average quantity of it this summer giving us warmer nightti...

According to official BOM stats we didn't come anywhere near breaking the daily rainfall record. Here's the link for 2010 http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/extremes/annual_extremes.cgi?climtab=rain_high&area=vic&year=2010 and 2011 so far http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/extremes/ann...

191mm for me thanks. Just a smidgen above the March record set exactly 100 years ago

Light rain here in Ashwood too for the last ten minutes or so. Hoping for enough to give the veggies a good drink but not drown them!

Oh and a few very LOUD crash bangs to scare the snails off would be nice

Seems like all the activity from SA disappeared into the radar hole a few hours ago and is now starting to pour out the other side. Our side. Don't give up on it yet Petros

Was looking that way up until the last few frames. Now starting to get interesting with cells beginning to pop up again.