It started with a bang and roar during the night and into the early hours of this morning. Thunderstorms with heavy rain.
We have been filling our 6 buckets with rain water coming off the cockpit roof and using that to wash in. This morning it took one and a half minutes to fill two 12ltr buckets.
The rain cleared by lunchtime, allowing tugs and marine rescue to move a barge loaded with a crane down river. This barge/crane had been in danger of collapsing and causing much destruction in the CBD and down river had it not been secured by the marine authorities during the height of the flooding. The rescue/recovery units were obviously taking advantage of the clear weather and lower river levels to remove some of the damaged wharves and jetties. As the tugs towed them down river the debris that had been caught up in them soon followed.
We have just seen the news and the damage this morning’s storm caused. Although we have not come out unscathed, we consider ourselves lucky surviving and still having our home (Imagine) when so many have lost everything.
The forecast is for more storms for the next 7 days, how big and how much is anyone’s guess. The forecasters are struggling to predict as the conditions have been so rapidly changing.
The flooding here and in NSW has been unprecedented and devastating and our thoughts are with everyone that has been impacted.
