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The day the country blew into town
Sep. 24th, 2009 07:34 pmSaving this, because it's funny. And because it's SO true: this is exactly what it was like yesterday and the kind of jokes going around.
The day the country blew into town
JOHN HUXLEY
September 24, 2009
IT WILL be remembered as the day Blue Cow turned red, Green Valley turned orange, White Bay turned pink, and Greystanes … well, even Greystanes turned a lighter shade of grey.
It will be remembered as an extraordinary end-of-the-world sort of day when the bush came to Sydney - just like for the Easter Show, except this time it brought along a thank-you present. An estimated 4000 tonnes of topsoil.
A woman from Dulwich Hill rang the ABC to say she could see Armageddon through her kitchen skylight. A farmer reported mud falling on Tamworth. A Balmoral man went missing crossing the Esplanade.
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The day the country blew into town
JOHN HUXLEY
September 24, 2009
IT WILL be remembered as the day Blue Cow turned red, Green Valley turned orange, White Bay turned pink, and Greystanes … well, even Greystanes turned a lighter shade of grey.
It will be remembered as an extraordinary end-of-the-world sort of day when the bush came to Sydney - just like for the Easter Show, except this time it brought along a thank-you present. An estimated 4000 tonnes of topsoil.
A woman from Dulwich Hill rang the ABC to say she could see Armageddon through her kitchen skylight. A farmer reported mud falling on Tamworth. A Balmoral man went missing crossing the Esplanade.
( Read more... )
