Yet another flood!

 At the end of March, Armidale had yet another bout of wet weather dumping maybe as much as 3 inches of rain on us over a 4-day period. And this generated yet another flood on Dumresq Creek - the fourth such event in the last 6 months and probably the largest of them all. Here are some pictures of this event taken on a couple od my earlt morning walks. Here are some of the pictures I took.

Eastern Australia has had the wettest Summer and Autumn for many years, with some places getting more than the average annual rainfall in just 3 months. Our floods are much less serious than closer to the coast and that's for several reasons. (A) The Dumaresq Creek cathcment area is much smaller than coastal ones. (B) We have less rain being inland. And (C) Armidale's planners have removed nearly all buildings and houses from the flood plains, leaving behind playing fields, walking tracks, children's playing areas, and a swimming centre. So floods mainly inconvenience traffic flows - as in the picture shown above. Once crossing places flood like this one the local government constructs barriers. However, Armidale does have a set of bridges so that the northern and southern sides of the town remain connected. Sometimes, however, that does lead to traffic jams, espcially in late afternoon when people try to get home from work!

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