We are still in Melbourne but we are hearing a lot on local TV about the container ship which lost over 30 containers off its deck during the last throes of Cyclone Hamish a day or so ago. It seems that one of the falling containers has split open the side of the container ship causing a huge oil slick to spill into the sea.
The spilt oil has then drifted onto the Sunshine Coast devastating 8 kilometres of prime surf beaches. The local councils busily set about removing the oil with heavy machinery when they were told to stop using machinery and resort to cleaning up by hand using rakes and shovels by the Environment Protection people. This would take an incredibly long time if it has to be cleaned up by hand.
I also heard there was 30mls of rain overnight at home.
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