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Con Vaitsas of Ashbury lives in âone of those streets of Ashbury that is inundated every December with huge crowds of people walking about looking at all the houses with Christmas lights, in an almost carnival atmosphere with ice-cream vans and police at times having to direct traffic. This year, thanks to COVID-19, Iâve hardly seen anyone apart from a few last weekend. I wonder if other places popular with Christmas lights are experiencing the same.â
Apropos of the discussion of meteorological âeventsâ (C8), Terry Lavis of Coogee believes that âstorm eventsâ sounds far more serious. âYou donât have a storm event in a teacup, do you?â Peter Nunan of Dareton offers up âârain rejectionâ (a term dreamed up by a public servant), which often follows a ârain eventâ. Put simply, rain rejection is a fancy term for reduced irrigation following one of the aforementioned âeventsâ.â