While here in Sydney we had intermittent heavy showers today, the region around Port Hedland in northern Western Australia is bracing for Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, which I mentioned a couple of days ago. The storm has slowed down over the ocean and thus strengthened to a category 5 storm, with winds up to 315 km/h. It’s expected to make landfall tonight, close enough to Port Hedland (population 14,000) to be very dangerous. There are smaller towns more directly in the path, and it’s going to be a terrible night for anyone who hasn’t evacuated.
As I said here it was showery. There was strong sunshine, but a lot of dark clouds around, and the rainy periods were very heavy. I took Scully for a walk this afternoon, thinking it would be fine. We walked about 2.5 km, and made it to about 100 metres from home, probably even a bit less, when the rain hit. By the time we got home I had to change all my clothes because there were soaked.
My first ethics class this morning was at 8am, moved another hour earlier due to daylight saving changes. I had the older students and we talked about Age Limits, both legal limits and ones imposed by parents, discussing why they exist and whether they’re fair and reasonable. We talked about differences in various limits between cultures and countries, and whether some limits should be changed. It was a pretty cool discussion.
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