Canberrans welcome big wet

More than 100 millimetres of rain fell across the ACT over the weekend, the best falls since 2002. The continuing heavy rain has already boosted Canberra's water supply. Water supplier ACTEW says the combined dam levels have risen since Friday from 48.8 per cent to 50.2 per cent. Spokesman Chris Hare says they are hopeful levels will continue to rise over the next few days.

"It will still mean that level three water restrictions will be in place," he said.

"The rain's giving a great drink to all the gardens and all the around Canberra it means our water consumption will be a lot lower in the next few days, half week or even week which will help dam levels even further." The ACT State Emergency Service was kept busy yesterday, receiving nearly 400 call-outs as two days of heavy rain flooded gardens, homes and roads.

Chief officer Tony Graham says it has been one of the busiest weekends on record with more than 130 volunteers lending a hand. "Most of the damage has been relatively light. Ceiling collapses have probably been the key issue. "We didn't have a storm event whereby we get lots of heavy rain in a very short space of time and of course we didn't have the wind so we didn't have a lot of trees falling over either.

"So I think we've got out of it reasonably lightly."

More: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/15/2819379.htm

No complaints about heavy rains

Canberra has already received almost double average February rainfall in the past four days, but no one is complaining.

Apart from a lucky escape for a Fadden family which had a large gum tree fall on its house during breakfast yesterday, another fallen tree at the University of Canberra, and some displaced kittens at the RSPCA in Weston, very little damage has accompanied the 105mm of rain that has fallen steadily since Friday afternoon.

And in some parts of Canberra the rainfall was significantly higher.

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/no-complaints-about-heavy-rains/1751890.aspx

There, I said it.

and large feral cats- foxes, rabbits and even feral European deer.

About those pigs, we saw some road kill on a recent trip out west. Had no idea they were this plentiful, according to the headline they ain't javalinas LOL:



And cull them people do- here's a "pig hunting ute" outside a pub in the gold mining town of Gulgong:



Local swine inhabiting the bar:

That's quite a continent you have down there.

Here in AZ, I think feral white ford F150s may outnumber humans. We should do a field study.