Still waiting

Rain's been crashing down in whopping great dollops right up and far inland from Australia's East coast. They've had/are having record-breaking floods at Emerald, Mackay's now a declared disaster area, and the monsoons are still busy over-correcting for shortages in previous years.
It's been pretty wet out West too, along with the odd cyclone up toward Darwin. They'll all be happy when "The Wet" runs down.
Here in South Oz, after years and years of "virtual drought" we're in the thick of the real thing.
Our city, and much of our industry, has depended on water pumped from the River Murray for two or three generations now, because we don't get a lot from "upstairs". Now, though, through interstate and Federal mis-management the Murray's in a mess too. The water level's dropping, the water (down our "bottom end of the national sewer") is becoming harder and more polluted and unavailable for irrigators.
But we're still waiting, and our metro supply dams have been pumped full, for now. In the meantime we're still sweltering, and figthing, through severe water restrictions, to keep our gardens alive.
But "Life wasn't meant to be easy", as one of our former Prime Ministers once said. So we'll keep watching the clouds pass us by, we'll keep our fingers crossed, and we'll keep on believing "We're in a great State, mate."