She’s Gone

It’s official. La Nina has left the building.

When she came home for the holidays, La Nina was no longer the dewy eyed freshman, promising hot humid days and sultry wet nights. Na ha. This woman was the raging vengeful ex. Like a menopausal Banshee, she smashed down the front door and tried to drown the dog.

Blowing off immigration with an indolent glance and breezing through customs, she began her world wind Queensland tour. Like most international tourists she came in via the North, explored some of the country outback and travelled across to move South via the fabulous Queensland Coastline. Half of Queensland was declared severe drought status while the other half waited for the SES to respond to extreme flood damage. Even New Year was called off for a lot of people. And now she's gone.

According to the same news broadcast, Australia is more likely to be subject to natural disaster than terrorism. Apparently our spending does not support this. Why am I not surprised?