G'morning Paul,

 PQ> There's something about Brisbane's geography that allows
 PQ> for such a thing, for about 2-3 months each year.

Mmmm ... I'll never forget being driven into the City from the 
airport in 1982 and thinking I was back in blitzed London...  a 
freakish hailstorm had holed windows, roofs, signs and fences all 
the way into town.

I spent 5 weeks working up in Toowoomba and came back to the city 
for a conference - in the middle of a major power outage in hot 
weather.  The Gateway hotel solved the air conditioning problem by 
closing the lifts, leaving the doors open and creating a howling 
chimney that rocketed cooler air around the corridors.

And there was a lovely story about the angry outback farmer who'd 
fired up his enormous generator when the power failed ... and 
discovered after the emergency that he'd actually kept the 
neighbourhood electrified because his system hadn't disconnected 
from the grid as it was supposed to.

Miles.

 
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