Marguerite
Active Member
ual it's nearly Thursday as I post this. Got to head for bed soon. Tomorrow is a busy day.
We had another sort of busy day today too. I headed out about lunchtime to collect difficult child 3 from college then we went to our club where he got some schoolwork done then we played a game of snooker. We stay out on the mainland until his drama class, then head home. Got there about 9 pm tonight. Raining all the way home, with the rain evaporating of the road in steam which swirled as we drove through it. difficult child 3 was certain there was hail in the rain; I don't think so. Lots of lightning though. And maybe by tomorrow the road will be flooded again.
The floods in the rest of the state - the Sydney floods have subsided, although this fresh lot of rain could bring water levels back up again. But other rain that fell about the same time, landed in the more inland rivers, they have a huge catchment and take weeks to drain. Each city downstream has between hours and days, in some cases weeks, of warming that there is a big flood on the way. Currently we have previously drought-stricken areas underwater. An area larger than France is currently underwater in our state alone. Wagga (our biggest inland city) has just survived the flood, the levees just managed to save the business centre. If the flood had been a foot higher, that would have been it. Now the next town downstream (Griffith) has several days to prepare, as the water heads their way.
This is the Riverina district, the food basket of the state (and much of the country).
There has been one death so far from the floods - a car load of blokes drove into a flooded creek in the dark a few days ago, one of them didn't get out of the car in time. Emergency services are doing a marvellous job. No looting, it's all being supervised well. And the dams are full!
I've got to get a load of washing on before I head for bed, tomorrow is a housework/cooking/washing day, regardless of the rain. A small load (or load of smalls) has to be done.
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Marg
We had another sort of busy day today too. I headed out about lunchtime to collect difficult child 3 from college then we went to our club where he got some schoolwork done then we played a game of snooker. We stay out on the mainland until his drama class, then head home. Got there about 9 pm tonight. Raining all the way home, with the rain evaporating of the road in steam which swirled as we drove through it. difficult child 3 was certain there was hail in the rain; I don't think so. Lots of lightning though. And maybe by tomorrow the road will be flooded again.
The floods in the rest of the state - the Sydney floods have subsided, although this fresh lot of rain could bring water levels back up again. But other rain that fell about the same time, landed in the more inland rivers, they have a huge catchment and take weeks to drain. Each city downstream has between hours and days, in some cases weeks, of warming that there is a big flood on the way. Currently we have previously drought-stricken areas underwater. An area larger than France is currently underwater in our state alone. Wagga (our biggest inland city) has just survived the flood, the levees just managed to save the business centre. If the flood had been a foot higher, that would have been it. Now the next town downstream (Griffith) has several days to prepare, as the water heads their way.
This is the Riverina district, the food basket of the state (and much of the country).
There has been one death so far from the floods - a car load of blokes drove into a flooded creek in the dark a few days ago, one of them didn't get out of the car in time. Emergency services are doing a marvellous job. No looting, it's all being supervised well. And the dams are full!
I've got to get a load of washing on before I head for bed, tomorrow is a housework/cooking/washing day, regardless of the rain. A small load (or load of smalls) has to be done.
Enjoy your Wednesday.
Marg