What I see in my backyard...
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Gabriel1
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Richard do you have water restrictions where you live? We have it here where we can only water from midnight to 5 am. Great for those who have auto sprinklers, but for us we don't!
We had water restrictions for years here and only a few years ago. No sprinklers were allowed and no hosing whatsoever. We could only bucket water our gardens between 4 and 5 pm 3 days a week. People were dobbing others in if they saw them use a hose and were then fined. They wanted everyone using less that 120 litres a day each and they sent out little egg timers to use when showering. Our dams were all but empty, some towns ran out of water completely and had to have water brought in. Everyone bought rainwater tanks with government incentives, we have 3 now of varying sizes.
It was very hard for us with a tropical garden, we lost well over a hundred plants, mostly ferns even though we had our own little bucket brigade going 3 days a week for that hour! Whenever it did rain, we filled whatever containers we had with water. We still have oodles of 20 litre lidded containers scattered around our gardens filled with water. Our government built a hugely expensive desalinisation facility that never did go online as......
We then had the biggest floods in Australia's history!
Samana
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That must've been a struggle.
It was certainly that! All good now except our water prices have skyrocketed.....have to pay for that useless desalinisation plant somehow!
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So water restrictions seem to be everywhere then and not just a US thing. It's interesting, too, because it seems like every year they place restrictions in the summer. I'm going to have to look further into our City web site to get more details.
A "mini ice age"...didn't we all just come out of one! Seems like Spring came so late this year...we had a few nice days and then it got cold again! It's really odd to see our Southern States here experience snow and extreme cold temperatures when they never use to have it. Maybe those "sun spots" do have a lot to say here.
Wow--your water restrictions were really strict. An hour only for 3 days a week and then egg timers to use to keep track of your time? Wow oh wow! Our water restriction are from midnight to 5 am I thought that was harsh. We haven't had anyone report us as you had there, but I wouldn't want to chance that. It'd be pretty embarrassing to be given a visit by the water police!
Too bad about your tropical garden...that's just so hard to see that go knowing how much time was spent planting and caring for them all! How ironic that then you had the biggest flood in history after all of that!
dianne137
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I have a shallow surface well with excel ant recovery but that means We can fill the bath or wash clothes in the course of the day.I am always conscience of my water usage and am fortunate to have a year round creek for irrigation.It drives me mad to see someone run the tap needlessly.I like to submerge my flower pots in my outside sinks to give them a good drink and then lift them to drain in the sink.i never water grass even with continuously running creek water because I just can't see the purpose.Here the grass always comes back green in the spring and I'm glad when it turns brown and I don't need to cut it anymore.
So water restrictions seem to be everywhere then and not just a US thing. It's interesting, too, because it seems like every year they place restrictions in the summer. I'm going to have to look further into our City web site to get more details.
A "mini ice age"...didn't we all just come out of one! Seems like Spring came so late this year...we had a few nice days and then it got cold again! It's really odd to see our Southern States here experience snow and extreme cold temperatures when they never use to have it. Maybe those "sun spots" do have a lot to say here.
Wow--your water restrictions were really strict. An hour only for 3 days a week and then egg timers to use to keep track of your time? Wow oh wow! Our water restriction are from midnight to 5 am I thought that was harsh. We haven't had anyone report us as you had there, but I wouldn't want to chance that. It'd be pretty embarrassing to be given a visit by the water police!
Too bad about your tropical garden...that's just so hard to see that go knowing how much time was spent planting and caring for them all! How ironic that then you had the biggest flood in history after all of that!
We had never experienced anything like this ever here and the drought went on for several years, and the longer it went on the more severe the restrictions became. We had diverters attached to all our down pipes, covered our drains in the hope of the water going into the ground rather than down the drain. We put grey water hoses on our washing machine to divert that into the garden also. There were so many things we did in the hope to conserve water. If anybody used too much then letters were sent out with our Rates notices to enquire why that was. They really did have water police driving around looking for offenders.
People were actually stealing water from water tanks on sports grounds and from creeks and rivers.. It wasn't a good time at all and yes it was awful to see our garden dying after all the work we had put into it. We weren't allowed to water lawns at all and everywhere you looked the grass was dead.
And then the Flood of the Century as it was called, with 99% of Queensland under water at one stage or another. One town experienced an inland tsunami which caught everyone unawares and washed a good portion of the town away, the death toll was very high. Rivers courses were changed. One poor cow travelled over 100 kms from where it was until it was rescued.
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We had never experienced anything like this ever here and the drought went on for several years, and the longer it went on the more severe the restrictions became. We had diverters attached to all our down pipes, covered our drains in the hope of the water going into the ground rather than down the drain. We put grey water hoses on our washing machine to divert that into the garden also. There were so many things we did in the hope to conserve water. If anybody used too much then letters were sent out with our Rates notices to enquire why that was. They really did have water police driving around looking for offenders.
People were actually stealing water from water tanks on sports grounds and from creeks and rivers.. It wasn't a good time at all and yes it was awful to see our garden dying after all the work we had put into it. We weren't allowed to water lawns at all and everywhere you looked the grass was dead.
And then the Flood of the Century as it was called, with 99% of Queensland under water at one stage or another. One town experienced an inland tsunami which caught everyone unawares and washed a good portion of the town away, the death toll was very high. Rivers courses were changed. One poor cow travelled over 100 kms from where it was until it was rescued.
Wow--I bet that was just so difficult to deal with trying to find any spare amount of water that could go into the gardens. Just can't believe you had to deal with that! I'm sure I would have tried anything and everything to try to get water-maybe taking from the kitchen sink every night or so, but that's such a little amount. That poor cow! Thankfully it was saved after going on a long winded water ride! The Queensland community was probably relived to finally see some rain, but that must have charged fast with flood warnings starting right after that!
Gabriel1
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Hahhaaaaaa!!
I love it, Gabe!
Next time I take a walk on campus I will take a few snaps of cows for you! LOL! We have a few too! ...and I believe Tigers as well!!
Lol.....yes, we did that too, took water from the kitchen sink, did everything over a container, then watered something with it. Even the bath water was utilised.
Hard times indeed, now everyone here conserves water.....but it was damn nice to have a proper shower once that flood did arrive!
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Lol.....yes, we did that too, took water from the kitchen sink, did everything over a container, then watered something with it. Even the bath water was utilised.
Hard times indeed, now everyone here conserves water.....but it was damn nice to have a proper shower once that flood did arrive!
Gosh-I didn't eve think about taking a shower or bath! That must have been the pits also!
We are currently under severe thunderstorm warnings! Lots and lots of rain coming down. The lights all down the main road are out and water is tire high deep!
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