'Australia is Drying Up': Farmers Interpret Symbolic Puddle in Dried Up Dam

Drought-stricken New South Wales farmer Bron White was intrigued when she found an Australia-shaped puddle forming in her dried-up dam after some much needed rain fell on her parched Ulamambri property on September 4.She posted an image to the One Day Closer to Rain Facebook group, asking other farmers if they could see anything in the shape of the puddle.White later updated the post to say that Tasmania had been added. “Our kids shetland pony added it late last night,” she said of the hoof-shaped addition on the bottom right of the puddle. “She decided to take it into her own hooves and put Tassie on the map.”Commenters on the post agreed they could see the resemblance to “our wide brown land,” with one woman interpreting the image as “Australia drying up.”Others interpreted the puddle as a good sign. “It’s an omen of the best kind” one commenter wrote, with another saying “let’s just treat it as a sign that it will rain all over Australia.”White told Storyful her family had been transporting water for their livestock for over eight months of the drought. “Just holding on telling ourselves it will break and we will have relief sometime soon,” she said. Credit: Bron White via Storyful