Sorry to be so late on this thread, but have beeen off the air for a few days. I have a bit of a wild ride since my doctor increased my "moves" dosage. Yes here in Melbourne we have had a week of days in the mid 30's and nights in the high twenties. Today the forecast is 39C. At the moment we have clear blue skies and only a ittle wind. Luckily this year so far we seemed to have escaped the realy hot days. Last year the end of Fenruary/First week March it topped 45C in Melbourne.
This last weekend though we had a public holiday, but on FRiday I was working at home with the cooling on (Temperature outside of 35C) and then the Internet went down. (I was doing some software work), then my fan started to slow down , then start,, then stop. Then I heard the fire brigade and the al of suddenly the lights went out, my Mac stopped working and the fan and cooling switched off. I rang the Electricity company who said they were investigating, but didn't know the cause, It was 2.30pm and it turned out the substation down the road had overheated and burst into flames knocking out the Telstra Internet Cable junction. Well 170 homes were effected.
Two hours later after I retreated to the local Macdonalds for a Ice cold Milk Shake and Air conditioning, I returned home to find still no joy. So it was time to put the bikini on and jump into the swimming pool. Feeling much better, i went into the house and shivered - the electricity was back on and the cooling was at full blast with 20C.
Well enough of that I thought, so on Saturday I headed to the ocean to stay dow there. I arrived at 8pm only to find the place I was staying in had just had a brownout. No electricity, the rental house in 40C heat inside, no electricity and no cooling, no lights . It was off for the next 4 hours.
On Sunday they said we were in for another week of mid to late 30s, but I heard this morning we might get a cool change on Thursday and possibly wonderful rain on Saturday!!
Hugs
JudithLynn
