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The LHC will be Jealous

The Fermi satellite is a gamma ray detector in orbit. For a while now it has been detecting itself as a gamma ray emitter. Thor has been playing tricks...

Flooding in the Gulf

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Put your mouse over the image to see the entent of the flooding. Source

Yay for flooding

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Lake Placid Retention Basin Via Krimzon.net Well, it has been an interesting morning already. I was awake at 4:30 becasue the frogs were croaking so loud they woke me up. An interesting way to wake up to say the least... After doing all the normal morning routine I started into work; it was about 7am, so I thought the roads would be fairly clear and it would be a nice (albeit wet) drive in. Yeah... no. Turns out the the frogs were croaking due to the exorbinate amount of rain we were having. I drove down Reservior Road to the first set of traffic lights, and on seeing the traffic banked up through them I thought I would go through one of the streets parallel to Murry Street to avoid the traffic. There was a wee little bit of water on the road (It turns out my car can swim!) and I did get abused spoken to by an SES person for driving through the road when it was flooded. In my defence, they had only closed one end of the road, so how was I supposed to know the entire road was closed ...

The Wet

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Add the BOM radar to your iGoogle here Well, it would appear that the Wet Season has begun . Shame about it starting on New Years Eve, but i'm sure the fireworks will still explode as expected. Pity I will probably still be at work when they go off.