I woke to the news of the latest bikie shooting.
So frequent have these shootings become that news of them doesn't necessarily lead the bulletins anymore.
Later in the morning Qantas baggage handlers went on a four hours' long strike disrupting airport operations nationally and traffic around the airport.
Shortly after noon a giant explosion in the penthouse apartment of a thirty stories Bondi Junction high rise badly injured two workers causing major damage to the large block requiring it and the major shopping precinct below to be evacuated. Hundreds of residents could not return to their apartments for the remainder of the day and overnight whilst investigations and repairs continued. Traffic in the area remains disrupted.
Then shortly after 4.30pm, a major electricity failure, still unexplained today, caused blackouts across the Central Business District and parts of inner east and inner west suburbs stranding thousands, closing the cross harbour tunnel and eastern distributor.
My bridge partner's apartment building was blacked out for some hours and our attempts to get to bridge last night were abandoned after we were stuck in traffic jams for nearly an hour.
To complete a memorable, for the wrong reasons, twenty-four hours the rains have returned to Sydney today soaking the city.
I guess Melbourne had the mafia/underworld killing spree a few years back, so it's only fair that Sydney gets a turn with the bikie war (I shouldn't joke about stuff like this, huh?)
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough, I thought of you when I saw this apartment explosion on the news, because I thought you lived in an apartment somewhere around Bondi?
Oh, and feel free to send some of that rain down here. My Azaleas are looking limp.
Evol - I can see the building where the explosion occured from my dining room window. I'm not really complaining about the rain, as long as it doesn't go on for too long.
ReplyDeletePretty disastrous day really. My sympathy. Rees on the floor of parliament today looked very unconvincing.
ReplyDeleteWow - what a horrible day, you need to come to Melbourne (Jewel of the South) for a quieter time. But we do need rain, lots of it, my garden has been blowtorched. And we have our problems here too with slack government - public transport, hospitals, - pretty much the same as you except for the monsoons...
ReplyDeleteMichael.
This was a typical day??? Yikes!
ReplyDeleteGood lord, what else could happen?
ReplyDeleteI still think it's funny that you call dangerous motorcycle gangs that are going around killing people "bikies". Makes it sound like they have streamers on their handle bars and glitter on the seat.
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