Hi! Holger,

On Tue, 29 Jan 13, you wrote to me:

 HG> I thought that OZ already was independent. Probably then NZ is also
 HG> still in the Great Britain tie.

Both countries are still tied to the British Empire, unfortunately.

 PQ>> I may have to move my Fido PC upstairs, soon.
 HG> Yes we get the news on TV. I saw this morning a map showing the
 HG> drenched areas was quite close to your home.

Ah, yes.  That might have been Bundaberg and its environs (about 100 kms
away).  They copped it very badly, initially with 5-6 mini-tornadoes and
then flooding later on.  Nearly half the city was flooded.  There's a major
military operation in progress at the moment, to help the residents with
the cleanup.

All is good here now.  The river only got to within ~300 metres (and that's
just a guess).  The other water turned out to be an overflow from a storm
drain from the city CBD, parts of which were badly flooded.  Many
businesses were affected by flash flooding.  Now, the water levels are
receding quite fast.

Oh, that's right.  We might actually have a bridge or two above water tomorrow.  :)

Cheers,
Paul.

... Veni, Vedi, Velcro -- I came, I saw, I stuck with it.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox