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    Quote Originally Posted by NLALM View Post
    If we don't get some rain soon and a lot of it, its going to be a very lean summer. I feel so sorry for all the people that have lost homes in the fires.And on the news tonight they have charged two kids with lighting a couple. They should lock em up , I don't care how old they are, they knew what they were doing they should be made to pay, and while Im at it lock the parents up too.And the scumbags that have been looting houses, well they should be shot, their just oxygen thieves.
    Scumbag Looters, shackle them Put them on the front line to fight the fires with water buckets...Till they`re all out..
    As for the little fire bugs they can clean up the mess and every week end and day after school till they`re old enough to know better..
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    shoot em all, kids included - what are they going to progress to when they're older




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    Apparently people have also been nicking stuff off the firetrucks as well.

    As far as weather goes.....as well as needing rain for the fires, I need rain here too.....badly. It's almost slower than winter at the moment.

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    this is the report from the Climate Commission on extreme weather predictions if interested (based on science, not radio shock-jock propaganda lol)
    http://cdn.getup.org.au/575-ExtremeW...Report_web.pdf




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    Hot and dry here....in Newcastle..would love some rain....please...
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    Client pays me $400 to mow his acreage property twice before the end of the month. Will be handing back $200 because no rain - grass is burnt and nothing has grown. Can't charge him for something that doesn't need doing and take advantage of that trust. Maybe catch it up when the wet season comes. Gee - I really hope that is soon!!
    How is everyone else doing with no or minimal rain?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GAMS View Post
    Client pays me $400 to mow his acreage property twice before the end of the month. Will be handing back $200 because no rain - grass is burnt and nothing has grown. Can't charge him for something that doesn't need doing and take advantage of that trust. Maybe catch it up when the wet season comes. Gee - I really hope that is soon!!
    How is everyone else doing with no or minimal rain?
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    Seems anything north of vic/nsw border in drought conditions. Drier around here atm than middle to late summer any other year. where the hell is all the rain??

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    We got a whopping 1.2 mm overnight. Prediction was for showers, 2-6 mm, and possible thunderstorms. Saw black clouds heading towards me while cleaning up a garden and thought "here it comes". Got one drop of rain then blue skies appeared. WTF. Seriously sick of mowing dusty lawns and coming home looking like a coal miner.

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    Just about ready to pack it in

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    40mm over Manly way this morning and flash flooding. Not a drop over the rest of Sydney, lawns are getting crispier by the day.

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    Finally some serious looking storm activity for tomorrow,I hope it buckets down.
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    Starting to feel like I'm back in the Alice.......forecast since June has been fine and warm to hot. In Alice the forecast from Oct to April is "fine and warm to hot with a possible afternoon shower or storm" Had that forecast for 10 years I was there.........down here they just seem to skip the "possible shower or storm"/.......

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    Since I started out 4 years ago, there's only been 1 year with good reliable rainfall. Unfortunately that was my first year. Things have become progressively worse since. Just for a joke 1 summer was even completely washed out. By the time the rain stopped that year, the grass had stopped growing. It was followed up with a cold dry winter, a hot dry spring and a mild dry summer. This year we had basically no rain between january and june. We had about a week or 2 of good rain in june from memory. But nothing since then. It's now october which should be one of the busiest months. Many of my good clients would weekly by now. Instead I am doing drivebys after 4 weeks. The bills keep comin, but there's bugger all comin in.

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    First job today the old bloke said see you in 5 weeks, how are we supposed to survive ,had a good storm this arvo, but it will be clear tomorrow, we need a week of steady rain. Jason are you really thinking of giving it away???? I can remember good and bad summers but this year is really taking its toll on me physically financially and mentally, in fact I have had a gut full, I am going to do something after Christmas whether it be sell up or down size and get rid of my offsider I just don't know, I am selling the walker I am over ride on jobs, a few small plum jobs will do me

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