Posted on 03/25/2021 10:11:30 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Rob Costigan bought a rugged farm in rural Australia three years ago with the dream of building it into something he could leave to his kids.
One year later, he was needing to truck in water to battle an extreme drought. Then Australia’s deadly wildfires raged perilously close in late 2019, forcing Costigan to spend day after day stamping out embers and running sprinklers on his roof to save his home, in an eerie atmosphere he likens to Armageddon.
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I went thru a year like that. Perfect conditions for mice. I lived on a 58 acre horse farm.
The 3 years before, we killed about half a dozen mice in our traps each year. Normal.
That year we killed 250+ mice. Not normal.
This year I’m seeing similar conditions for rats on the property I live on.
I’ve lived through these things. It’s disheartening, dispiriting, it tries to break your spirit and your soul. You literally ask God, “Why?” I can’t recite what we went through; you’d never believe me. On different occasions, it was a seriocomic chain of events that almost seemed pre-planned. But it’s a test of personal fortitude. You come out spiritually stonger for it.
“Mad Mice: Thunder Dome”... mmmm.
Could be an interesting Australian movie.
Tough place to live. Australia’s climate is brutal, it’s a land filled with creatures that walk, crawl, and swim and almost all of them are poisonous and lethal.
Crikey! But enough of his mates and fair dinkum, you’re done!
And it has ever been so!
It’s years like that, I have read, when Bubonic Plague crops up out West.
That makes sense.
It's like a flash flood...unbelievable.
The solution to rats is hungry cats.
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