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Rubber is a very flexible word. Holey rubber can mean disaster, Nev

Aren't you getting some NOW? 1900. Nev

At your Place Maybe. More change may change your situation but you Miss out on rain from every direction at present.. Nev

It really depends on when the Bulk dealer had the fuel for him put up and for sure He would still have had some at the Old price but what can one do? Another reason to go electric? Nev

I'm calling BS on that, Onetrack. I know for sure and for certain that there is no such thing a rain.

I know that this quote comes from yers ago, but it is a good lead-in to my post. On Wednesday, 91 Octane petrol at my servo was $1.69 per litre. On Thursday it was $1.79 per litre. Today, Friday, it is $2.17 per litre. I don't think thesero got a delivery yesterday from the bulk depot less than a kilometre away. We all expect to be ripped off by the oil companies, but the only reason thedo it this week is because Trump started a war to soothe his ego, or was it to deflect attention from the Epstein files.

Weather events More often and More extreme is a change. SEA temps are rising, THAT WILL cause change. No Meteorologist would deny THAT. Nev

My father lived and worked on Doolgunna Station, about 120kms N of Meekatharra, during the Great Depression, from early 1930 to sometime in 1934. Doolgunna is in the upper catchment area of the Gascoyne River. He would also spend time working as a fencer on numerous other stations in the Gascoyne region. He then spent a further 3 years doing water-boring in the same region and further afield, right down to the Northern Wheatbelt of W.A. In March 1934, a big cyclone cut across the Gascoyne region, bringing huge falls of rain with it. Dad and two other blokes were fencing on station further West from Doolgunna, I think it may have been Three Rivers Station, but I'm not sure now. Three Rivers has frontage to the massive Gascoyne River. Anyway, where they were working was in the Gascoyne flood plain. They each had horses and a camel-drawn dray with supplies on it, designed to last about three weeks at a minimum. Dad said it started raining, and rained heavily, non-stop for 3 days. They got around 15 inches (380mm) of rain in that three days. He said the curious thing about the whole episode was, just before the rain started, the three camels they had on the dray, laid down, turned their heads against their flanks - and died! He reckoned they somehow knew a big flood was coming, and camels can't handle wet muddy conditions, their legs splay out in greasy mud, and they bellow out in pain. So, they stopped working for three days - and next thing, the floodwaters from the rising Gascoyne started surrounding them! Their swags and tents were getting wet, so they built a platform in a nearby windmill tower, about 3M off the ground, and set up camp up there to wait out the flood. It was too risky to return to the station, because they had to cross the Gascoyne to get there. They sat it out on that windmill tower platform for THREE weeks! The water around them rose to top-of-fencepost height, and just stayed there for all that time. Dad said nearly every fencepost top they could see, was covered in scorpions, snakes or other creepy crawlies, all trying to survive the flood! He said there was water as far as the eye could see, from the top of the windmill tower. Finally, the floodwaters started to recede, and one of the blokes decided he'd try to return to the station to let the owners know they were still alive, and not washed away, and to get some fresh tucker. But he tried to swim the Gascoyne, which was still flowing well, and he ended up losing his horse (and a good saddle, too! - according to Dad) - and he nearly lost his own life, getting swept well downstream, before he could grab a tree and climb out. The other blokes were surprised, when he walked back into camp, with no horse! So they had to wait several more days before they could get out and cross the Gascoyne safelys and return to the homestead. Here's some of the storm reports from the end of March 1934, that show the vast area flooded by that cyclone. Only a fortnight before, the SW of W.A. received huge amounts of rain as well, from a different cyclonic event. Some places in W.A.'s wheatbelt received 5 inches (125mm) of rain in one day, around 9th-10th March 1934. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67262087 https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/67264963

I've received my latest power bill and it's the first time in four or five years I've had to pay anything. I think all the government subsidies have run out except for the state government pension discount of about $90. With all the cost of living subsidies, my balance was always in the black for a few years there, but price increases have whittled the balance down so I'm now in the red by about $180. It was good while it lasted, but now back to the real world.

I listened to one expert economist whose surname was STAMMERS when I was a Superannuation Fund Trustee. Surprising the fancy dinner Invites in TALL Buildings you get when you can sign a BIG Cheque. Nev

Most of that water comes from the Channel country way north. Nev

That whole area must be like one big sink. I remember when we worked around Lake Eyre in 1984, we were camped on the Macumba not far from where it heads into the lake. The north bank we were camped on was low but across the waterhole looking south, the high sand dune system had been cut vertical like a knife leaving a sheer sand cliff of about seventy or eighty feet height above the water line. At a later date I was up there and it was amazing to stand there among flood debris and look down on the camp so far below. It's hard to get your head around 80' floodwaters when you can't see it, but the evidence was scary enough. It was a similar thing when we took the chopper up the Warburton, huge vertical cuts in the sand dune system like a knife through butter. Where I live, the nearest town recorded 90" of rain for January in the late 1800's. Local history says the road was cut for five months that year.

Bull$#!t. You are kidding yourself. with wishful thinking. Sea temps are Much warmer and that's a big factor in climate. Higher more unstable clouds. More ENERGY. How good is your Met Knowledge? Nev

"THEY are sitting on OUR OIL". and when this WAR is over Petrol will be almost FREE. Prominent Headlines in the Newspapers in the USA at the time. Haliburton made a fortune. Owned by VP. Dick Cheney's wife. That's post Desert Storm a turkey shoot of exposed Iraqi soldiers fleeing from Iran.. Nev

The other runway is too short unless the wind is quite strong from the appropriate direction.. Nev

Not sure anyone wants the extreme ones. Pakistan and Afghanistan are at war. Sunnis and shiites don't get along. Gotta feel sorry for India. They Partitioned and still have the Mussies attacking them.. Iran is shiite and NOT Arab. They are always quick to point that Out. Saddam Hussein of Iraq was given the green light to attack Iran by the USA then BABY Bush attacked IRAQ for having WMD's. A claim which was always FALSE. Nev

There's plenty of countries that accept and welcome those of that belief. If they don't want to accept our standards they can go find somewhere else.

Can't help but applaud that move, it's long overdue, and obviously the previous "bar" was set too low. And now they can start banning and deporting Imams who promote murder and hatred and division in their religious lectures, as well. We have imported way too many carriers of Middle Eastern hatreds, and outright lawless criminality. It's time to really start hammering them.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-06/hizb-ut-tahrir-listed-hate-group-under-bondi-laws/106422810

That's off topic. Something closer to the topic, because it's about muslims, is that our Fed Govt just announced that a certain muslim organization has been banned in OZ. Too extreme they reckon.

We were woken at 1:30AM this morning by a huge heavy aircraft directly overhead, making a vast amount of noise. We're not on a regular RPT aircraft flight path, and only occasionally get a twin piston aircraft overhead, mostly doing training, I'd say. Occasionally, someones private Hawker-Siddeley jet with its screaming little engines will fly overhead on descent into Perth - but that's usually in the early evening. I think it might be Gina's or Twiggy Forrests bizjet. But this flight this morning was a very big aircraft and exceptionally low, and I'm really surprised it was allowed to follow the flight path it did, and so low, at that time of morning. I have no idea what it was, maybe an extraordinary flight for an aircraft leaving the Middle East mess at an odd time, outside normal flight times. I regularly used to watch the Emirates A380 arrive just on sundown every day, over the Northern suburbs, as I came down the highway from the North. It would come in from the West, do a 90° RH bank and fly a direct line to the airport, landing from the N. It would do that like clockwork, but since Iran was bombed, I haven't sighted it since.

Woo-Hoo! Christi Noem has gone! - replaced by a rabid MAGA warrior, an MMA fighter who wears cowboy boots and hat in the Senate! That reflects your regime admirably! Onya Donny! - get that new guy to kick the crap out of those illegal immigrants and ICE protestors, and make sure you crank up some ads, showing him doing it! 😄 I'm sure that'll go down with the American public much better, than Noem just instructing to shoot them! 😞 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-06/kirsti-noem-fired-by-donald-trump/106422694

We have always been used to it. Nothing has changed.

A hole pile of trouble. The hole of creation. Anyhow Tiger IS a Cheetah. Nev