Racing abandoned through heat

[sharpas]

There has been an unprecendented heatwave in south eastern Australia causing a number of racemeetings to be cancelled.
Adelaide has had a week of 40 deg plus days, and the Gawler meeting on Wednesday was abandoned when the mercury hit 42 deg.
In Victoria, Geelong races were abandoned after the 6th race, due to dehydration of jockeys, whilst today’s Ballarat and tomorrow’s Sandown fixtures are off, in 44 deg heat.
So while all you NH fans suffer from the lack of racing, due to your extreme conditions, we too in Australia, are suffering in the heat.

[Dolus]

We are not suffering from extreme conditions. We as a country are just crap at dealing with the slightest change in the weather that is outside of normal.

I was feeling the heat as well, then found the central heating was set too high.

[moehat]

would it sort our recession out if we somehow managed to export our excess water to Australia?

[Dolus]

Excess water! I thought we all let it run away, (no matter how hard it rains), so we can impose a hose pipe ban in the summer if we have two sunny days in a row.

[robnorth]

We have plenty of the stuff up here, and store it in the gaps between the mountains!

[Jings Crivens]

We have plenty of the stuff up here, and store it in the gaps between the mountains!

lmao…….I do remember those water butts!!

[Drone]

would it sort our recession out if we somehow managed to export our excess water to Australia?

Reminds me of a Goon Show sketch in which the plan was to export ice to the middle east: on arrival in the Med it was water, and on arrival in the Arabian desert it was steam

[doyley]

Hello,

This is no urban myth…
In the 70s or 80s, it was considered, and processed thru some feasability studies, to "capture" a huge iceberg and literally drag it from the North or South by huge vessels to Africa..I ain’t sure what would happen to the beast if it got there…but it became apparent the journey would be incredibly slow and the bulk of it would melt prior to reaching it’s destination…

I think they tested it once and it went up the Irwell and duly melted at a place called Haydock, and it has never been dry there since!!…

regards,

doyley

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