Marguerite
Active Member
G'day, people.
I spoke too soon about the drop in rainfall. We got deluged over the last 24 hours, they're saying we got a month's rainfall in one day. At our place we filled the rain gauge at 150mm. Most of that, 100 mm, was in 9 hours. Hang on, husband just got home. He says he emptied the rain gauge this morning at 6 am. So when I read it as 120mm at 8.30 am, that was ANOTHER 120mm, not just on top of the overnight rainfall. So in less than one day (rain began last night at about 9 pm, it's currently 7.30 pm) we've had 250mm rain, not 150! That's 10" of rain. I think the Sydney annual average is about 48" in old numbers.
husband did get to work though. Had to drive the long way, the radio said the north road was flooded. The south road used to flood but we now have a high bridge. The old road is still there but husband said this morning you couldn't see there was anything there at all, just a huge brown torrent over the old road.
The sun came out after lunch so I took mother in law for a drive to look at the floods for ourselves. I filmed it on my mobile phone. I'll try and put it up for people.
I have seen it worse than this, but not often. mother in law & I stopped for coffee at the kiosk near the weir (north road). Figured we'd give them some business. There were a couple of other people there too, locals like us who were stranded.
I got my washing hung up. Inside, of course.
We're about to head to mother in law's with the curry I cooked today. Luckily I had just turned it off (all-day slow cooking) when the power went out. The whole town. Our Uninterruptible Power Supply failed to switch on, so everything went down except for the laptops. No internet. difficult child 3 investigated the UPS and found the batteries have leaked sulfuric acid everywhere (including over his jeans) so I got him to eutralise it with some bicarb soda. difficult child 3 & I went to the local shops to find out what was happening - the shops were closing, they had no power either. Turned out the whole town was out. And the next village too (we're connected). Then difficult child 3 saw the footbridge onto the beach - it spans the creek, which has been running a banker. The bridge now ends in mid-air. difficult child 3 came back, soaked, having fallen in. Amazingly, the 3DS in his jeans pocket did not get damaged. He doesn't deserve his luck.
At least it washed the acid out of his jeans though.
We have our annual village fair on Sunday, and the village green is currently underwater. They have forecast a break in the rain over the weekend, but I have to go into the city very early on Monday, and the rain is forecast to be back. And when it rains on waterlogged ground...
Heading off for dinner now. Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg
I spoke too soon about the drop in rainfall. We got deluged over the last 24 hours, they're saying we got a month's rainfall in one day. At our place we filled the rain gauge at 150mm. Most of that, 100 mm, was in 9 hours. Hang on, husband just got home. He says he emptied the rain gauge this morning at 6 am. So when I read it as 120mm at 8.30 am, that was ANOTHER 120mm, not just on top of the overnight rainfall. So in less than one day (rain began last night at about 9 pm, it's currently 7.30 pm) we've had 250mm rain, not 150! That's 10" of rain. I think the Sydney annual average is about 48" in old numbers.
husband did get to work though. Had to drive the long way, the radio said the north road was flooded. The south road used to flood but we now have a high bridge. The old road is still there but husband said this morning you couldn't see there was anything there at all, just a huge brown torrent over the old road.
The sun came out after lunch so I took mother in law for a drive to look at the floods for ourselves. I filmed it on my mobile phone. I'll try and put it up for people.
I have seen it worse than this, but not often. mother in law & I stopped for coffee at the kiosk near the weir (north road). Figured we'd give them some business. There were a couple of other people there too, locals like us who were stranded.
I got my washing hung up. Inside, of course.
We're about to head to mother in law's with the curry I cooked today. Luckily I had just turned it off (all-day slow cooking) when the power went out. The whole town. Our Uninterruptible Power Supply failed to switch on, so everything went down except for the laptops. No internet. difficult child 3 investigated the UPS and found the batteries have leaked sulfuric acid everywhere (including over his jeans) so I got him to eutralise it with some bicarb soda. difficult child 3 & I went to the local shops to find out what was happening - the shops were closing, they had no power either. Turned out the whole town was out. And the next village too (we're connected). Then difficult child 3 saw the footbridge onto the beach - it spans the creek, which has been running a banker. The bridge now ends in mid-air. difficult child 3 came back, soaked, having fallen in. Amazingly, the 3DS in his jeans pocket did not get damaged. He doesn't deserve his luck.
At least it washed the acid out of his jeans though.
We have our annual village fair on Sunday, and the village green is currently underwater. They have forecast a break in the rain over the weekend, but I have to go into the city very early on Monday, and the rain is forecast to be back. And when it rains on waterlogged ground...
Heading off for dinner now. Enjoy your Thursday.
Marg
