Google obscura

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Gee! What a bummer if you happen to live on Jericho Court, in Narre Warren, Victoria, Australia.

Excitedly, you download Google Earth onto your computer ... install ... zoom in to your little corner of the globe ... your neighbourhood ...

Only to find the view of your Colorbond roof has been obscured by one of the very few clouds in the sky at the time whenever the satellite image was captured.

Bummer!

My own neighbourhood was one of 99.9% of neighbourhoods that were not obscured by scant cloud cover at the time. I live in the area just above the place-name ‘Narre Warren’.

In the top-left quarter of the image can be seen the sprawling Fountain Gate shopping complex. A place to be avoided wherever possible, but which sadly was not obscured by that scant cloud cover.