Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Flood

On the 21st March we tend begin thinking that winter's on its way. But this year has been very different to most in that warm weather has continued to enshroud us. At 7 am this morning I was out on my bike because the temperature was so warm - about 18 C and rode about the usual 16 km or 10 miles. However, I did have an ulterior motive for rising that early. Last night the weather forecasts for today talked of heavy rainfall driven by humid winds coming off the Coral Sea and true to expectations a few peals of thunder heralded the start of some very heavy rain. Poor Dot had to rush into the garden to salvage some washing from the line and did a good job at the rescue.

Then, in the space of 40 minutes we had a dump of 21 mm, after which the rain retreated. Alas, a second dump started after half an hour and in a short space of time the gauge registered another 14 mm. So, in a little under two hours we received 45 mm (or 1.77 inches) and parts of our garden disappeared under water. Just have a quick look:

Chairs under water.


Some remnant towels on the line - much wetter than when they came out of the spin dryer.


Lake Kenalmac rising and spilling out on to our driveway.




I'm enrolling in a course in Ark Construction 101 just in case things go on like this, but I think that Armidale is fairly safe at 1000 m above sea level. If waters rose this high just about all of Britain would disappear and solve the Brexit crisis.

AS

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