Cooma

We have 55,000 meals a week we provide for those people.

We have 36 flights in and out of Cooma a week to bring those people to the project.

And what they're building is a 27 kilometer long project.

with Tantangra Reservoir at the top, Talbingo Reservoir at the bottom and two mega caverns in the middle which will contain the equipment to generate electricity and also take electricity when the grid has got too much electricity and pump it uphill.

Energy is fascinating because you get to deal with, you know, incredible customers across the whole country.

Everyone uses it.

You drive from Cooma up to the national park on a nice morning.

You've got to pinch yourself that you're being paid for this.

And she looked at that or was aware of that and rang the hospital.

Um, and they said, "Oh, you better come in." Um, so we drove to Cooma, which was about 45 minutes north, um, and they put her on a trace, um, and were monitoring and the, um, Frankie's heart rate was elevated, and so they thought Kate might be dehydrated, so they put her on a drip and, um, uh, we're just hoping for that, um, heart rate to stabilize.

And it sort of hadn't, but they weren't that worried.

Um, and the doctor in Cooma said, "Look, just, we might send her through to Canberra, so be prepared.

Go home and get some, uh, clothing and, and, and, um, toiletries and that sort of stuff." And so I jumped in the car thinking sort of we weren't really gonna, nothing-- There was no urgency.

And I just got home and, um, the nurse rang and said, "Look, things have not stabilized at all and we're gonna actually rush her to Canberra for a, um, a emergency C-section 'cause we're very worried about the baby." And I was in the wrong direction, which was very frustrating.

Oddly enough, there's wombats in the towns too.

You know, when you go through Cooma and you go through the industrial part, there was a wombat along that road.

There was a wombat just outside of Bombala.

And then after Bombala to camp was fog that you could only see literally, you know, two road markers in front of us.

So, yeah, we just kind of let her... let her be with some more intimate family.

So she's going down to Cooma.

Yep.

So she was born 1926 in Austria.

And my opera fought in World War II for, you know, basically the Soviets.

So he's from Ukraine.

When they came to Australia, they settled in Cooma.

So, you know, mum and some of her siblings had taken her down back to Cooma and kind of have some reminiscence.

Oh, mate, it was freezing.

It was minus five in Goulburn at 6 a.m., so Cooma's usually colder.

Yeah, it was colder.

I had a big woolen sort of coat thing, so it was all right.

We had a bit of a blow-up this week on the socials.

We did, yeah.

You went rogue and then busted off, bolted off down to Cooma for a couple of days.

He says we.

I'm on me Pat Malone.

Rat's got a cashie down at – he's in Cooma.

Is he? Yeah, he's down in Cooma for the next two or three days, I think.

So it's me and Geordie in here.

We've got Toddy Carney coming in for a little bit.

Great man.

He's a great man.

So Cooma's the Williams cruise from there.