Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Not the sound barrier but a cool pic. It's also not much of a barrier anymore.
Some other great photos here:
You are obviously misled, that is the deployment of the Geo-Engineering and Mind Control vapour trails
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I am just impressed she had the confidence in her skills to do that in a flash white outfit.. it was not her first trip to the Rodeo
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I just watched a video of some mad fluffybunny boogie boarding down the Huka falls. That's insane.
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@mariner4life that was intense aye! I was trying to time how long it took him to come up once he went over the final falls, if you get your lines wrong (assuming he'd actually worked out a game plan!) the risk of getting pinned must be pretty high. Mad fucker
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@Paekakboyz ha yeah I reckon the guy on the camera was getting a little worried the way he panned...dude reckons he's done it before.
saw a comment on FB from someone that said Peter Plumley-Walker didnt need a Wetsuit...
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/adventure/88343631/man-rides-huka-falls-on-a-boogie-board
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Bit of a heatwave going on at the moment. Western Sydney is on course for 43C but so far it feels pretty mild (only 27C at 10AM)
Here is one story from a town out near where I grew up:
Welcome to Bourke: Land of melting roads, exploding thermometers and scorching summer sun.
Today the mercury is expected to exceed 46 degrees Celsius in the New South Wales outpost.
To some that will sound like Hell on Earth, but the 2,000-odd people that call Bourke home would not have it any other way.
As trains had to slow down by 10kp/h. In Bourke, there was a different problem.
"The bitumen roads melt. It doesn't run or anything, but if you're wearing thongs it gets really tacky and it sticks to the bottom of them," said Kathy Lowe, who runs the town's only swimming pool.
"I remember 12 years ago we had a thermometer under shade at the pool canteen and it got so hot it exploded. It got [to] more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit (about 49C).
"We all heard this noise and thought 'What was that?' The glass would have been old and fragile, but it gives you an idea of how hot it was."
Even the Mayor, Barry Hollman, who has lived in Bourke for 69 years, is on holidays trying to escape the heat.
"The crows fly backwards at this time of the year to try and keep the dust out of their eyes," he joked.
In Wilcannia, about 300km south-west of Bourke, a high of 47C is forecast today.
Sweltering temperatures are nothing new in this part of the world. Bourke recorded a NSW record high of 49.7C on January 4, 1903, which was equalled in Menindee in 1939.
Swimming pool 'was like soup'
Mrs Lowe, a mother of six, runs a tight ship as manager of the Bourke War Memorial Swimming Pool.
Everyone in the family is a trained lifeguard and has to pull their weight, although there are perks.
"If it's hot, the lifeguard on duty can just drop their belt and jump in," she said.
"That normally keeps you going for another couple of hours."
You could be forgiven for thinking a place in the water at the town's only public swimming pool would be hot property when the mercury starts to rise.
"But even the water temperature is 31C on hot days," Mrs Lowe said.
"We've got a shade shelter over half the pool now, but before that went up it was like soup in there."
Pubs offer an escape
Tracey Hegarty, the publican at the Port of Bourke Hotel, takes pride in helping locals "keep their fluids up".
But she said there was more to the town than hot weather.
"We love Bourke. Anyone who lives out here in Bourke is dedicated," she said.
"We're all out here for a reason and there's some great people out here. They just tick different."