Flood photo essay

We went for a little looksie this morning, which was just after the expected Flood Peak.

Don't mind the skewiff horizon, I was taking them out of the car window.

We came across a few of these guys in a narrow bit of dry land near the road.

 We didn't push them too hard.

Being pretty shy creatures they take off at the first sign of any human.

It got too narrow and they hopped into the edge of the water.
There was a little fellow at the back.

He struggled a bit with the hopping, so.....

Swam

 Quite a way in the flood water.
It would have been pretty hard work.

 Especially where the culvet runs into the flow.

There must have been a bit of a high bit.

Then deep again.

Finally he got his feet in solid ground.

And hopped out.

And met up with his family again.

Then took off again towards the flood water.

These bully boys were not phased by any of the goings on.

just a bit bunched up, but had plenty of space to get around.

And off they went!!

To be followed by the ducks.

These big boys got themselves up on the disused railway line.

They were pretty happy with plenty of feed to munch on.

And the view out the front of our house looking towards town.

Highest flood levels since 1955.

And this afternoon, this, which deserves a post all of its own.

 Tomorrow.

Can you tell what it is? It is amazing!



Floods- 2nd Feb

Thursday morning we woke up to plenty of water all around.

We are now completely isolated.

But completely dry.

Nothing is stopping these guys from munching out on all the lush new growth. 

Then we got the SMS from the state emergency service to evacuate.

Yeah right through this!

 This is the water view from the driveway in to our house.

The water is roaring through there and sounds like a vehicle on the wet road.

We are not far from town and the water has now spread out to cover almost the whole 5 Km distance.

And through this.

The puppy was a bit naughty and followed us down the road towards the turnoff.

She had a lovely time puddling about, chasing frogs.

This is just rising water, there is no flow to it.

But is a bit too deep for a car to get through.

We had a neighbour arrive for a visit.

And another, who had just finished a mustering job in the JCB.

A good quick little tractor party was had by all.

It will be interesting to see what the flood peak will bring in the morning.

Water, water everywhere. Floods again

We had our road closed again yesterday morning.

It has been raining pretty heavily. Again.

We had flooding in this area last late November.

It has rained regularly since. Many falls of more than an inch.

We haven't really had a real dry out.

The last few days have had about 4-5 inches on top of saturated soil.

We went for a bit of a look around and to check on the flow.

The water will flow right through our country.

A few creeks have burst to the south.

They are now flowing back into our country.

We have plenty of high ground for the stock, so we don't tend to worry about them.

when we drove down the road we noticed on the neighbours, this lone beast standing on a little mound with the water running all around him.

It can be a bit daunting when you see this width of water to cross in front of you.

It was only 40cm deep though and not too fast flowing!

Further down we started to see the bank of water which had already passed through our place.

The Roos were absolutely sodden.

The water was running across the road from some high plains.

On the way back we could see the water entering our place.

That is the brand new fence.

Redone in just the last few weeks.

It's been done a little bit differently with 2 strainer posts either side of the bad bit.

It won't pull the whole fence down, just the bit between the strainers, they have droppers not posts driven in.

Well that's how it has been explained to me.

I just suggested that it be built so that it could break at the stress point and not pull the whole lot away.

On the way back home the water had risen 10 cm in 10 mins. Fast.

We like to open the doors to see how close it is to coming in.

It was pretty high.

It's a really dirty workhorse this Landcruiser! Does anyone else use those fabric softener sachets to act as an air freshener in their car.

You should!

We put more in today!

Cuddly 'fresh linen' is my favourite.

They last forever. I steered hubby away from the lavender ones, they're not a good idea -to relax you while driving!

Yes I think that looks like a dog biscuit!

You may often hear an agent's car called a mobile dog kennel!

The neighbours boys were high and dry.

And their mates had a deep plod to get to them.

My back lawn is pretty wet!
The house is up another metre from the lawn, and this is not floodwater, just rain on the lawn.

And there is a kid running and singing in the rain. and jumping on a slippery wet trampoline.

He's having a great old time!

I hope when it gets into town it doesn't do too much damage.

There are some very nervous people in there.

It just will not stop raining!

It'll all be good here as long as the power stays OK.



Creeping flood water

More water, seriously!

Each day there is a bit of a top up to the floodwaters around here

There are constant stormy clouds.

Today there was a big scare after some heavy rain upstream last night, and lots of people went home early as some roads closed at midday.

 And rainbows delivering pots of gold to my house

or not!

We thought there would be another huge downfall this afternoon.

The wind had really picked up.

and those clouds just wanted to burst

But then the sun came back.

These photos were taken further down our closed road.

And this one is at the start of the road.

So I am not allowed to go to town.

The Police have started booking people who drive around these signs.

This sign changed this morning, it had read that it was closed further along, but now the whole thing is closed.

There is still a bit of water glinting across the road from our house.

And a lot more moving down into that spot.

It's all good for the garden. rainwater has nitrogen which the bore water doesn't.

And I had put out seven 20 Kg bags of fertilizer on the lawn as this all started.

The lawn is growing about an inch a day.

A friend had this bogging happen to her the other day at the school's award ceremony.

She was hurrying into the carpark.

My hubby piggy backed her tiny bod across the mud so that her suede shoes wouldn't get ruined.

She has lots of 11 kids!

Those men are not all her's, her hubby was busy elsewhere.

They like Chivalry around here.

After the ceremony a bit of brut pushing got the beast bus out.

We were thrilled that Itty Bitty got the student award.

And while we were at home after the roads closed this morning, after a bit of an upset, he and I baked this banana bread.

Thank you A Beach Cottage for the recipe!

Waaay too good!

It won't last long.

I shouldn't like this flood bound business.

And can't wait for holidays next week!

PS. all these photos were taken on my new phone,

I'm so impressed!

And Iphone's Siri, I looove it!