TC LAM Northern Territory - Government makes it a Black and White Cyclone

Donate to the CROWD FUNDING APPEAL .
https://ozcrowd.com/campaigns/arnhem-land-tc-lam-urgent-supplies-needed/?updated=true#.VOkejiknxUS

Image - Oz Crowd funding

I shared the funding website as far and as wide as I possibly could to as many as possible and even asked people to donate if they could, I felt if we were on benefits and could send a few dollars, others earning much more could do the same. 

I posted the Oz Crowd link to Lock the Gate page and apologized for it being out of context with the page.  I felt it may reach a few hundred people there who may want to help because there are so many like minded people as myself visit that facebook page for csg updates etc and so I posted.

I was aware of page rules and this is why apologized straight up so that I could not be seen as not knowing the page rules.  One punter continually barged her immature point of view over and over and over and.  It made it difficult for me to be civil, given what I have seen personally regarding the treatment of indigenous in this country in all situations

After repeated posts from this same person (who goes by the name of Melinda Johnson)  it was evident this person was a government lover or  a troll or perhaps even Vee Ness.    That strange woman used the name Johnson as a surname on one of the false profiles of hers we busted out.

There was repeated sour grapes posts regarding this woman's disgust that lock the gate would not take down the appeal post I posted to LTG.   She turned on Judith and I who were answering her endless questions.  She took her posts down and it made us guys look like a couple of whack jobs posting between ourselves. 

Next morning surprisingly LTG had not taken the post down.   Many people had seen the post and I hope some of those folk have donated  and shared the TC LAM CYCLONE RELIEF PAGE far and wide also. 

However, like clockwork there was another comment from this same lady again, Melinda Johnson, offering a rather lame two pronged apology in order to have another go at me and the fact that LTG had not taken the post down and to purposefully stand up for the corrupt government and tell me that 'Government have not turned their backs'.

UPDATE to TC LAM APPEAL LAST Night! 8:12pm
Arnhem Time 23/2/15 UPDATE:

We were informed today by the Chief Ministers Dept. that Milingimbi, Ramingining and Galwin’ku (Elcho), all now have access to clean and safe drinking water. The alert for boiling water has ceased. We are so so happy to hear this. There is still a lot of work to do and still a lot of people living in shelters/sheds and unable to return to their homes. There are still trees everywhere and locals are tirelessly trying to clean there houses and make repairs with extremely limited resources. Please keep spreading the word about our campaign and donating, every $1, is a heartfelt contribution that is appreciated and contributing to a great cause. Thanks (from crowd funding site)

It was a total Solar Eclipse

What made it so special?
Duane Hamacher, an expert on Aboriginal astronomy at the University of NSW, said eclipses were of great importance in indigenous legends. The moon and sun are often seen as a man and a woman who chase each other across the sky, sometimes fighting, sometimes loving.

"In Euahlayi culture, the sun woman, Yhi, is constantly pursuing the moon man, Bahloo, who has rejected her advances," Mr Humacher writes in his blog.
"Sometimes Yhi eclipsed Bahloo, trying to kill him in a jealous rage. However, the spirits that held up the sky intervened and drove Yhi away from Bahloo.

"The Yolngu people of Elcho Island in Arnhem Land provided a similar, but less malevolent, explanation for a solar eclipse -- it was an act of copulation between the sun woman and moon man."

As in other parts of the world, eclipses in Aboriginal communities were seen as a sign of impending calamity or black magic, a threat that could be addressed by medicine men, or wirreenuns, who chanted a particular set of words or threw sacred stones or a boomerang at the eclipsing sun.

Mathematicians say total solar eclipses happen because of a remarkable celestial coincidence.
The sun is 400 times wider than the moon, but it is also 400 times farther away, so for those directly beneath, the discs appear to match in size.

Yesterday, a few lucky people got to witness, in person, what is one of the most spectacular of all celestial phenomenon: a total solar eclipse. Unfortunately, the path of totality took the eclipse, for most of its duration, through the Pacific Ocean, where almost no one lives. Fortunately, the eclipse was visible from the Northernmost point of Australia, which meant that some people, but not many, got to see it.
However, with the eclipse being such a rare event, it was only to be expected that cameras were trained on our nearest star, thus bringing the eclipse to the entire world via technology..
Of all the online photo galleries documenting the eclipse, perhaps the best of them all is that on Spaceweather.

Want more pictures? Well, they're all over the web with some of the largest galleries listed below:
Space.com
Universe Today

Images @ Melonpopzdropz Flickr

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