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У нас сегодня вечером случилось ЭТО.
Молнии внутри тучи – очень, очень красиво. При условии, конечно, что ты находишься километрах в дцати от той самой тучи.
Кстати, как правильно снимать грозу?
День Австралии.
Оказывается, празничный салют, на который жители нашей деревни сбегаются потолкаться локтями к заливу, превосходно видно из окна моего кабинета на втором этаже. Точнее, было бы превосходно видно, если бы над всей округой не сидело облако, моросящее таким оченним дождиком. Облака этого, кстати, на радаре не видно.
В Сиднее жить с видом на салют подороже будет, однако.
A few years ago we became proud owners of a book called “Sydney Region Outline Plan”. The book, printed in 1968 is nothing else but a large 111-page report about what Sydney and surroundings looked like back then and how they were expected to look today. Surprisingly enough, that was rather interesting reading.
In “Transport” chapter a few paragraphs were focused on that by 2000′ a second airport should be built in Sydney. No doubts it should have already happened. But it did not. I remember how amused I was when I learnt that the largest and busyiest air hub in southern hemisphere is closing for any flights every night. Well, to be honest, I could hardly imagine a modern city with the airport nearly in its center before!
Anyway, that book pointed a few options where second airport could have had been built. Of course, we already heard of options like “somewhere on West” or “in Richmond” but there was another interesting option – they were also talking about Wyong shire and even considered it as one of the prefferred options. Never happened though. Yet (?).
Well, this is all about a front cover of today’s “Central Coast Sun Weekly” – it says that the government is once again revisiting plans to build a new airport for Sydney and there are “many feasible reasons” why it should be build in Somersby. Not far away from Wyong, but nothing new – they already shortlisted in in 1969 and there was a 500-people demonstration against it back in 1971 (see aph.gov.au).
I am not quite sure how feasible is it really – from my impression landscape here on Central Coast is anything but suitable for airports. I am not airport architect and I don’t know all the details – may be Somersby plateau is large enough for long runways required for A380, but that besides the point. Even the fact that some businesses have already backed the proposal (which is understandable) so as that it is not know yet how would it change the face of Central coast and affect the enfironment are not important yet. I rather curious about whether they decide or not finally? This discussion already seems to last for over 50 years.
Есть тут у нас на Центральном Побережье общественный транспорт один. Впрочем, даже три, если посчитать, но для простоты будем считать что он один, что правда, если посчитать все траспортные единицы этого вида. И выглядит эта единственная единица вот так
Кстати, на переднем плане пытливые читатели могут заметить остановку этого общественного транспорта. Я бы даже сказал, в некотором роде узловую станцию.
Another exciting news for anyone hoping Woy Woy road will be finally fixed some time soon.
It looks like there is another “little crack” in the road. And it looks like the crack has been known since April this year but still nothing has been done. And it looks like the crack is just as little as 50 meters long and it continues to grow. And, surprisingly, it looks like the crack is caused by rainwater escaping damaged underground pipe, which happened to be situated right under that section of the road. I have a feeling that I already heard about some road been washed away by rainwater…
Anyway, according to todays “Express advocate“, the issue was addressed with “High priority”. Which apparently means nothing has been done. Yet?
Something is definitely wrong with roads on Central Coast. Have you heard that two weeks ago we were just centimeters away from another road collapse on Kariong Hill? That’s why they doing those urgent roadworks on Saturdays’ nights.
Let’s just hope this is simply a surface crack, which could easily be caused by numerous reasons but don’t usually lead to road closures; at least as far as I can judge from newspaper’s photo, it is about as serious as that. I want to go there during daytime to see it by myself. Not sure If I can scrap a moment this weekend, but may be it is the time to sell the car as driving around Coast will soon become impossible?