Drought Australia
Today my heart is aching.
Went for a drive to face reality of the drought as it hits us and once again saw bare paddocks. The sheep are all being sold.
Crops are shocking. Many have failed. They are charging farmers over $500 per meg of water, money the farmers have not got.
It is said we will be paying $5 for 2 litres of milk in February. Prices will begin to increase rapidly.
Good job I kept my boomerangs! Might have to catch an emu or kanga!!! *erk*
The air is filled with dust; dust penetrates our homes and the vacuum cleaner is forever going. Cars are filled with red dust. If we get one good dust storm we won't be able to see our homes.
Trucks taking sheep out are forever on the road - and we are held at the mercy of a merciless sun.
Dams I thought would never be dry now have a sceric of water on the bottom, but not enough to water the sheep.
Brisbane is on stage 4 water restictions as are country cities in Victoria. The row continues over the piping of water from Shepparton to Ballarat which is on Stage 4 water restrictions.
We have to laugh and be happy though. We got through the last drought and we'll get through this one ... God Willing.
We are all taking it one day at a time in the area where I live, and, if it won't rain, we all just hope for a nice day.
And ... we have summer to face.....
posted by Simonetta @ 9:00 PM
5 Comments:
At 19 October, 2006 23:54,
Simonetta said…
Hello Michael!
I don't think about Cubby Station at all, we have our own area to think of. I don't mean to be rude, but Cubbie had as much water as there is in Sydney Harbour, now it's down to 1% it's up to the owners of Cubbie to evaluate where their water went. Yep, there is evaporation to take into account too, but I'm not into cotton.
At 20 October, 2006 00:23,
Simonetta said…
You want the truth? No.
I have no time for Cubby Station and don't care if it dries out completely. That place harvested water in a manner that was a political disgrace.
Cubbie is cotton, around me there's livestock and livestock means more to me than cotton and cotton 'kings' who think of their own selves before anyone else.
Sorry Michael! The manner in which they harvested the water in the first place rubs me up the wrong way.
At 20 October, 2006 01:05,
Simonetta said…
Michael, I am talking of my own area, not of a place interstate which has nothing to do with my life. :))
At 20 October, 2006 10:52,
Anonymous said…
What a beautiful photo of geometrics on the land. B I realy had no idea how much into photography you are, nor of how you are suffering in the mallee.
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