Note: The following posts were imported from my previous blogs.

Spirit Of Tasmania  #
Thursday, 03 Feb 2005 03:35PM
The Spirit Of Tasmania (regular boat between Melbourne and Hobart) turned back last night due to 20m waves.

"We were on the seventh deck, the second highest deck, and the waves were higher than our window and they were pounding on the window all night and they blew in the front windows of a couple of the cabins."

...

Ms Archer said some passengers couldn't get their doors open because cupboards had pushed against them.

"And because they were up to their knees in water, they thought the boat was sinking and so they really panicked and they don't want to go on the boat again."


Trains  #
Thursday, 03 Feb 2005 03:18PM
I didn't get to work today until 10am due to train problems. Had to catch to train part way, then a bus to another line, then that train to the city (Flinders Street) then another train to my City Loop station.

I noticed that the second line we took was almost flooded. A little bit of extra rain would have had that out of service too. Noticed a couple of flooded underpasses too.

Sounds like almost every train line was effected by flooding or branches across lines or powerlines down.

View the current status of your line at Metlink.

My line is back up and running.


Storm  #
Thursday, 03 Feb 2005 02:12PM
Damn impressive storm last night. Got up at around 4am this morning and the neighbours trees were almost horizontal from the wind. New house appears to be weather proof.

Photos from around Melbourne of the storm carnage including flooding around Crown Casino [The Age, reader submitted].

Not much else to say except that I bought an X-ecutioners CD (Revolutions) today for very cheap ($5) at a secondhand store, still sealed. I couldn't figure out why it was so cheap. Then I noticed the "Edited" label. It's the version with all the swearing, mentions of sex, guns and drugs taken out. It's a hip hop record. I expect the lyrics to be simply lots of "and" and "it" and other joining words with lots of blank. Which sucks.

I blame Walmart. Screw you censorship. I can't believe their is a market for this rubbish. I think I'll release a new range of metal albums with all the guitar E chords and A chords taken out.