Thursday 30 April 2015

NSW Deployment - day 2

Hi everyone

Grr: typing this again after accidentally deleting it!

Slept really well last night!  The New Olympic Motel is clean and comfortable and does a good breakfast of sausages, bacon, eggs, muesli and coffee. Not haute cuisine, it's true, but very warm and lots of it. 


Lismore is a good distance from the sea, and in a subtropical area.


There are lots of Palm trees and the architecture has a Queensland-ish feel to it. It feels like a kind of pocket-version of Thibodaux, Louisiana.  As you may imagine, this makes me happy!


The Lismore SES unit is below a rocky cliff. The people are friendly, and they've warned us of the dangers of leeches, paralysis-ticks, and the likelihood of catastrophic flooding.


Weather forecast is still for 150-200mm rain and pockets of thunderstorms. There's a festival of some type down at Nimbin, where there's a risk of flooding. At the moment though, it's a case of 'hurry up and wait'!

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