Some Rain And Cooler Weather

About 4 pm Friday afternoon a storm rolled through our area and dropped about 10ml of rain. This morning the lawn already looks a little greener. Not only is the lawn a little greener, today will get to a more comfortable 29 degrees or so.

I was attending a Home Brew Association Meeting as the storm rolled in. The bike ride home was pretty wet I can tell you!

As a part of water restrictions here and having a pool, I am 'required' to have several water saving features installed. One of which is to install a rain water diverter which I did a few weeks ago. Yesterday was the first chance I had to test it. It worked very well.

The diverter is installed 'into' a downpipe (top left). As it rains the diverter fills up and water flows via a hose in to your pool. If there is no outgoing flow, the diverter overfills and the excess water continues down the downpipe. I drop the other end of the hose in to a pipe which is there in case we ever wanted to connect solar heating to the pool. Despite only having 10mls of rain, the pool is currently filled to the top. Usually we could expect a decent downpour every few days at this time of the year which means the diverter would help to keep the pool full and there wouldn't be a need to top it up from the mains. With so little rain this year, I have been using the mains to keep the pool topped up.

We have king tides here at the moment. In the right of photo you can see a buoy leaning right over indicating just how quickly the incoming tide was running. You will have to click on the picture for a larger view. Some people who live right on the beach are keeping their eye on high tide levels for the next few days.

The land in the background is a part of Bribie Island. It is expected that the sea will break through this spit of land in the future and eventually all the land you now see will be underwater. It is also expected this area will be a possible future surf beach once the spit of land goes!

Computer Club this morning so I had better head off and get ready!