Here's Summer

As I sit here typing away on my blog, the currrent temperature outside is 33 degrees and it even morning tea hours yet. I love hot summer days! I love to dress with limited amount of clothing on freely at home and do water fun activities in the pool or visit the waterpark. 

We were warned a couple of days ago we might experience a heatwave this week.  Really.. define what a heatwave means because I live in a sub tropical state.  All the years I can remember living here it's normal to have hot and humid days and nights but I think in the last couple of years we had more unaveraged temperatures and residents have forgotten what a true summer is really about.  Further out west would be about 5-10 degrees hotter then the coastal areas. It's really them who get the heatwave more then coastal towns.

Around this time last year, Locker Valley experienced their inland tsunami and about 24 hours later, Ipswich and Brisbane was unindated with floods.  The last time this happened was back in 1974 which I was abit too young to really remember what the experience was like for us residents. 

I don't know what the insurance companies (that's if they existed in 1974) was like back then but I did hear last year alot of people had serious dramas with their insurance companies.  Most of the companies didn't wanted to pay these people their claims because they believe the floods was invented by man.

Realistically, this weather pattern known as La Nina or whatever you call it, is just part of the life cycle.  If everyone reads more about the history of the weather pattern, this weather change was due to happened after such a long draught for many years. 

Unfortunately our great Grandparents aren't alive anymore to share their experience of their weather patterns they experienced. I am sure they had experience similar wild weather patterns over summer too.

But you got to remember population has increased over the years so more housing estates are up and it means more drainage is required and so on. Could bad drainage could be the main issue too??

Tonight on Channel seven news will have a report about what happened to residents twelve months on.  It will be interesting to watch to see if these residents have really moved on with their lifestyle or still having dramas with rebuilding their properties. From what I heard it could take a couple of years before these residents really get back to normal on their feet. And the last thing on their mind is more wild weather to hit this summer.