Two natural events dominated today: the massive 8.8 earthquake off Kamchatka and the subsequent tsunamis events still rolling across the Pacific Ocean as I write this; and the local weather here in Sydney.
It’s raining here, and has been all day, and the forecast is that we’ll only see the sun again next Tuesday. It’s not especially heavy, but has been steady and the accumulated total over the next six days is forecast to potentially be well over 100 mm. And it’s very cold. We’d been enjoying some warmer temperatures, but now we’ve plunged back into cold about as harsh as Sydney ever gets.
I did brave the weather briefly at lunch time to go buy some bread. But other than that I’ve bee rugged up at home trying to stay warm. One of my classes tonight had a Japanese student, but she didn’t show up, so I guess her schedule might have been disrupted by tsunami evacuations.
In some good news, I received a response from the local council about my request to spray the nearby park for bindii weeds. The grassy areas where Scully likes to walk and sniff around are covered with this weed and in the spring make it almost impossible for her to walk there due to the thorns. The council sprays larger parks for bindii, but they’ve always neglected this one small one near my place. I’ve asked them in the past to spray it, but this year for the first time they’ve responded positively and said they will add it to the spraying roster this year and for the future. Yay!