More rain

Over the last 24 hours we've had no less than 80mm of rain (75mm = 3 inches) and it's still raining. In fact, the forecast for the next 4 days is rain. I imagine that we'll get another 40mm over that period making 4.5 inches overall. That's a lot and there are flood warnings for all the local rivers.

That thought led me to interrupt this post and rush down to Dumaresq Creek, which flows through the city, to take some pictures of the flood and these are shown below. The water level was at about 1.2m above the causeway or perhaps 1.8m above normal water level. This is the highest level I've ever seen the creek and it was flowing very fast despite it being only 10km from the source at Mount Duval. Fortunately, this flood will cause little damage because our city planners have banned all development on the flood plain.

The first picture looks east from the Faulkner Street foot-bridge and one of Max's favourite play areas, just visible on the right, is under water. The second looks west and shows most of the surrounding parkland also under water.

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