Floods, highway chaos: 120mm downpour threatens for Coast

That's the headline in this morning's local paper, The Sunshine Coast Daily.  As in Melbourne, it is a long weekend up here, the only difference is the holiday is on Monday rather than Melbourne's Friday.  And the forecast for the next few days has been upgraded with a heap of much wanted rain due to hit us this afternoon and over the next few days.

The photo is a screenshot taken from the BOM weather forecast for this area off my Kodi.  It seems the long and hot dry spell is coming to an end and for many people it just couldn't come soon enough.

On Friday as I tried to drive towards Caloundra the traffic was stopped on Caloundra Rd as holiday makers made their way into Caloundra for the long weekend.

For those of you in Melbourne Caloundra is a little like Rosebud's poorer cousin and is the choice of families with kids.  The Gold Coast is for the younger ones who want a great time and to spend money, while Noosa, well the only ones who go to Noosa are the local snobs and people from Melbourne who measure the success of a good holiday by how much it costs!

Don't get me wrong, Noosa is quite nice but it isn't the top choice as a holiday destination for the locals.

To top it all off there is a large Music Festival on here this weekend with top line acts performing over the three days of the long weekend.

The newspaper article referred to above suggests that those families who can head home today (Sunday) instead of waiting till tomorrow should consider to do so.

Well the footy has now come and gone with Richmond the 2017 premiers.  And the last team to beat them was my team about 4 or 5 weeks ago!  But then they belted us in an earlier final.  The Richmond faithful will be all very happy and many with sore heads this morning.

Daylight Saving has again started in the southern states putting oursleves one hour out of kilter with those down there.

I managed a 24k bike ride this morning as the wind has all gone with the weather change on the horizon.  Then I did a 'bottle washing' this morning as well because with the forecast rain, there wasn't another suitable day popping up early next week.  But it is all done and the bottles now have a few days to dry.