Its about as dry as folk can really remember over the last few years - we are running on about half our normal rainfall for the year and Spring has been very dry and hot.
It burns the land and flags the spirit in what should be a productive and hopeful part of the year - the firies say that we are probably in for a ripper of a Bush Fire Season because of all this.
We have bought water several times for the house - someone has long showers which doesn't help and it ain't Karen or the puppies, we also have the estate water - non potable but good for garden - also the house water recycles out to block via the envirocycle. This all helps but it doesn't change the fact that the land is dry and has been that way for a while now.
Australia's the dry brown land but a 1 in 100 year drought brings a whole new push as to why that is so. All along our inland rivers we are losing River Red Gums that have stood for centuries, and the crops are failing - graziers are destocking. Its been serious for a couple of years but now its getting to be intimidating.
No choice but to KBO for the cockies or just walk away, it good that there is some drought relief for them but still its going to be a rought Christmas for many communities.
OZ Bureau of Merteorology has some info on drought here
On a more general note I've been a bit crook with the flu but otherwise things are fairly tikiti-boo for us.
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