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Stuck in rural Queensland

So, here I am, marooned in Warwick, southeast of Brisbane,
about one and a half hours drive. Stuck here by this: We missed
getting through by half an hour or so. We may be stranded for two
days… And no Internet!

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Comments (16)

  2. My brother-in-law’s stuck on the other side – about 5 km. south of Toowoomba, looking south, heading for Tamworth.

    Trade bodies?

  3. No internet, and yet you post on your blog. A festivus miracle!

    My brother lives in Cairns. Apparently it’s a tad wet up there due to some depressed metereological phenomenon. Really ought to seed the clouds with prozac this time of year.

      1. So you claim to have no internet, all the while having a 3G internet enabled device? I think you’ll have no problems being accepted by the philosophers guild. It’s up there with Plantinga claiming that belief in God is basic, yet belief in Ahura Mazda, Lord Shiva, Wotan, etc is not. 😉

  4. The Bureau of Meteorology says the The Condamine will peak at Midnight. I think you should be able to proceed tomorrow after breakfast. The Condamine does not normally stay up very long at Warwick.

    Warwick trivium, this is where Billy Hughes had a egg thrown at him when he tried to convince the largely Irish population that it would be a good idea to fight for the King in the Great War.

    1. billibaldi | December 27, 2010 at 8:50 pm:

      Warwick trivium, this is where Billy Hughes had a egg thrown at him when he tried to convince the largely Irish population that it would be a good idea to fight for the King in the Great War.

      So that is the true meaning of ANZAC!

    1. Warwick is a dead loss. We’ve gone back down to Glen Inness to come on via Grafton.

      1. Yep, that’s what bro-in-law did in reverse (went to Grafton, to come to G.I.) – though I gather the road did open in the early afternoon (from Warwick to Toowoomba). #nottoknow

  8. Deep enough to stop even a large anthropoid ape. That’s deep…

    (Unless the aquatic ape theory is correct)

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