It's Raining... Crash!

The rain today was ubelieveble! It rained non stop for at least 5 hours. And we've already exceeded our average rainfall for April!

This happened just up the road (the Carramar one). It is one of my biggest fears because we are on a corner block and there is a bend in the road just behind where our fence is and there are always cars hooning around on that bend. If someone was ever to lose control there, the car would end up in my room, on my bed.

I actually had a close call some time ago - someone did lose control and ended up mounting the kerb and came within 2 metres of my bedroom. It actually woke me up because I could hear the car engine. I went out the next morning and you could see on the lawn the tyre marks and also on our garden bed, where the edging had been moved and all the plants were squashed against the fence. Scary stuff!

Random Facts 21

1. The mechanical shark in ‘Jaws’ was nicknamed Bruce.
2. Fish can get seasick.
3. Rats can swim for a kilometre without resting. They can also tread water for three days straight.
4. Sugar was added to chewing gum in 1869 by a dentist, William Semple.
5. Mosquitoes have teeth.
6. A ballet enthusiast is called a ‘balletomane’.
7. The tulip actually originated in Turkey, not Holland.
8. The 50-metre long wall that gave New York’s Wall Street it’s name was only 3.5 metres tall.
9. The highest temperature on record was 57.78 degrees on 13 September 1992, in Azizia, Libya.
10. On average a cow produces 40 glasses of milk daily.