I'll write a long one up about Norseman in a couple of days. I have plenty of pictures to take you on a little "sightseeing tour".
Right now I just want to give you an idea of the extremes we get in the country out here. Just about every single day I've been out here there isn't a cloud in the sky. It rained about a month ago overnight, for 20 minutes or so, but I didn't see any of it. Other then that, I've barely seen clouds and certainly not any rain. Until, just a few days ago we had a storm roll in that couldn't be missed. There were radio alerts warning people of thunderstorms, hail, and flash floods. They advised everyone to find shelter for their vehicles, to avoid the insurance catastrophe that happened earlier in Perth. Anyways, this storm hit us around 4-5am. Now, if you know me, you know that I sleep through storms, I've slept through earthquakes and could probably be robbed in the night without so much as tossing over. I sure didn't sleep through this one. There was no hail but it sounded like the roof was getting shot at, the lightning was so bright I thought about reaching for my sunglasses, and the thunder shook the..shack I'm currently living in. Disappointingly I didn't think to get any pictures, so I failed you and you'll just have to take my word for it.
Later that day I heard there was another storm coming in at night, so I decided to climb up to the lookout to see if I could get pictures of it rolling across the plains. I also failed at that. Here's an example of all I was able to get.
It seems the storm knew I was there and waited for me to get down before crossing over the hills. So I didn't get any pictures of the actual storm but I got these, which are a little anti-climatic but still pretty amazing.
This one shows the water pouring in as the ground slopes to the right. It seems the motel wasn't designed with storm drains so it really just heads to the furthest room on the right as seen here.
Another important point is that this picture was taken at 5:30pm. It is never that dark so early in the day. The next picture was taken the next morning.
Clearly, the water is completely dried up, and the sky has returned to normal. Almost as if nothing had happened.
To refrain you from speculating; those pictures were taken from my balcony, so that's not where I am living, but that is part of the motel. Those hills in the background are pointing west (towards Perth). We get weather from that direction, also from the south which always brings "cold" and "wet" weather, or so I am told.
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