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  1. #1
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    Angry Well that REALLY sucked!

    Got hit by a hail storm earlier. Nothing too bad - car is OK I think - but the drain in front of the workshop backed up and wound up with 2 inches of water through the whole workshop. Bugger.

    Just took us 2 hours to clean it up. Now I have 3 fans and a fan heater going full tilt trying to dry everything out.

    Hopefully nothing's completely buggered - bunch of turning timber got wet feet, but that will dry out OK I think. The MDF & ply was off the floor, so with a little luck that will be OK too.

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    Sorry to hear that Darryl. I think the storm must have skirted us as we are only having a bit of rain just now.

    Sounds like the biggest problem might be the moisture inducing rust on the tools.

    Might be time to get out the jar of vaseline :eek:

    Good luck

    Craig

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    Sunshine in Melbourne,

    Sorry to hear about the mini flood Darryl. :eek:

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    Quote Originally Posted by
    Sunshine in Melbourne,

    . :eek:
    Just wait five minutes :eek:
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    , It's in the western suburbs.

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    It's dark here in Kempsey seeing as how it's 9.23pm. How far south is Melbourne??????????????????
    Darryl
    Sorry to hear about your tempest.
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    Talking about daylight hours. We are in the same time zone as NSW but about 20 years ahead of Qld.

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    Quote Originally Posted by
    Talking about daylight hours. We are in the same time zone as NSW but about 20 years ahead of Qld.
    Well ya gunna need a Tardis to get to WA then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by
    Talking about daylight hours. We are in the same time zone as NSW but about 20 years ahead of Qld.
    Wow, if one of us mere mortals was to say that we'd be roasted alive by all the cane toads. Makes ya wish ya had the super natural powers of an administrator sometimes.


    P.S. Sorry to hear about the flood Darryl.
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    Darryl,

    I can Honestly sympaththise, until recently I had cronic flooding problems in my shed. I live on a hill face and the uphill side of the shed used to act like a dam for stormwater run off due to the severe lack of drainage provided by the previous owner.
    To remedy the problem I've had to virtually dig a moat around the shed. My other half keeps asking when the draw bridge will be in.

    BTW a glorious weekend in Adelaide bright and sunny and low twenties, fantastic for working in the garden .

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    OOOOOOHHHHHH it was a bad one alright. I live about 10 streets away from Darryl and while I didn't get any water into my workshop it was interesting to see my drive thru garage turn into a foot deep river.

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    When it rains, I've got a stream that runs right through the middle of my shed. It comes in the back door, cascades down the steps, runs across the floor and out under the front door. Some people pay a fortune to have a water feature installed

    A friend of mine is a landscape gardener. One of his clients is a TV journo who has a house on the side of a hill in north shore Sydney. Whenever it rained, a torrent of water would come down the hill and cut unsightly gouges through his lawn and gardens and leave silt and crap all over the place. So he had my friend build a waterfall at the top and a creek bed that winds it's way down through his gardens and into the gully at the bottom of his block. You can't beat nature.

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    Got to sympathise with you Sydney folk, if it's not fire storms it's hail storms.

    Ol mother nature sure can be a winsome wench sometimes!
    Hope things turn out OK Darryl.

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    So you don't do much woodwork on rainy days then ?

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    Quote Originally Posted by outback
    Wow, if one of us mere mortals was to say that we'd be roasted alive by all the cane toads. Makes ya wish ya had the super natural powers of an administrator sometimes.
    The general hush from our Northern neighbours would indicate they probably agree.

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