With newspapers being in short supply on the NSW North Coast at present due to the number of roads still cut by water, here is a link to a bundle of flood photographs sent to the media by local residents.
Tuesday 26 May 2009
A fun piece of trivia from Core Economics
Sometimes the trivia machine works overtime and produces grin-inducing posts such as "Was someone short of fact checkers?" with statistics like this:
Australian PM Physical Data
I always wanted to know that Kevin Rudd was 2.5cms taller than John Howard!
As the PM data spreadsheet is a work in progress, join in and give Alistair a bit more info.
Monday 25 May 2009
Maclean begins its post-flood clean up
They were taken in low-lying areas of Maclean on Sunday, close to the street leading to Mareeba Nursing Home where staff and volunteers did a magnificent job looking after seventy-one aged residents during a very difficult week.
McDonald's receives a fail in both staff and customer relations
From The Daily Examiner letters to the editor column last Friday:Bad Experience
I AM writing to you about something I witnessed one night recently. I was at McDonald's on the highway at Grafton having some time with my family after work.
We were sitting having coffee when I heard some shouting and yelling. At first I thought a customer was abusing the staff but on looking, what I saw shocked me no end.
A manager was screaming at the girls on staff and calling them names and yelling in their faces.
The whole restaurant stopped and people were so uncomfortable. We let it slide, but after it kept going a man confronted the manager and asked him to cut it out and treat the workers with respect.
The manager told this customer to leave and there was a discussion and the customer sat back down. I was so embarrassed for the girls on the counter how this manager belittled and demeaned them in front of customers and his attitude towards the customer who spoke up in defence of these girls.
He was basically told it was none of his business and to go away. I remember when customer service was a priority at any store and this just shows why a lot of kids hate to work for companies like this.
I would hate to think that this is normal, but after seeing this manager talking down to the customer I believe that McDonald's Grafton may have a bad .' attitude towards staff and customers.
The kids give up their time to earn some money and feel better about themselves. I am writing as I believe it's about time someone spoke up for these kids and how they were treated.
KYLIE NOY,
Coutts Crossing.
ABC North Coast Radio was doing an excellent job reporting on the floods and then, along came Martin....
I was in awe of ABC North Coast Radio this week.It covered the flood situation on the NSW North Coast extensively and professionally.
In fact, if it were not for questions asked of emergency services by its on-air staff quite a few areas wouldn't have had much information on what was happening locally as flood waters rose.
Then I heard the dulcet tones of Martin (who once hailed from ABC 2NR) and I awaited the inevitable.
Martin did not disappoint during one on-air conversation.
He casually dismissed the fact that a Yamba caller was cut off from reaching high ground at Yamba Hill by flood water across the main road as being nothing much - because she was not in 'Yamba proper'.
Of course the caller's concerns were similar to those of at least another 2,500 residents in that same section of Yamba (which as any fool would be aware had experienced steady urban growth for the last fifteen years and was very much within the town boundaries).
Fair dinkum, that bloke doesn't deserve to be anywhere near an ABC microphone.
Send him back down south.
To all the other ABC radio staffers who showed the rest of the mainstream media what excellence sounds like - well done!
Thanks to Clarencegirl for the LOL.
Sunday 24 May 2009
Yamba Surf Life Saving Club battered by May storms
This is how Yamba fondly recalls its 100 year-old surf life saving club down on Main Beach.
Bottom picture of YLSC during May 2009 storms - from The Daily Examiner
Unfortunately this is how the club building looks during severe storm weather.
How long will the present 78 year-old building be able to stand this increasingly frequent pounding?
Bottom picture of YLSC during May 2009 storms - from The Daily Examiner
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