Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Ballina (2)

Knock, knock at the caravan door, yesterday late afternoon. It was the park manager making a visit to everybody and distributing an official yellow warning pamflet about the weather to be expected. This is the main issue (Australian Bureau of Meteorology; http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/nsw/):
"Heavy rain and damaging winds are expected to develop over the Northern Rivers and northern parts of the Northern Tablelands during today, and will continue through until the end of week. Flash flooding associated with this rain and wind gusts in excess of 90 km/hr are likely. Mean wind speeds are expected to be in excess of 65 km/h at times. "
Because our "nice spot" in the park, we were expected to get the full blow. He advised to lock all hatches and windows and to roll in the awning.
It was a rocky night, but the worst is to be expected today and tomorrow. So this morning we moved to another spot in the park, a bit sheltered behind a large permanent caravan.
We will be OK here. I keep you informed!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Dat wordt dus gezellig binnen blijven met koffie en een koekje.Of geen koekie erbij.Pilsje en een boek kan ook.
Hier is het mooi voorjaarsweer.Gr.Nan