Yet More Rain

It's 7.30 in the morning here and still raining. Armidale has now received getting on for 150mm in three days of almost constant rain, which is 6 inches for those tied to imperial measures. The forecast is for the rain to clear later today.

Dot and I leaped (?) into the car an hour ago to drive down to the local creek to inspect the volume of water heading downstream. It was off its peak  - there was a high tide mark a little way above current water level, but still impressive. These are some of the pictures we took. Th first two show two of the town's many low-level causeways which are now closed to traffic. The re-routed traffic has caused jams over some of the main bridges. The second shows a tree trunk lying on the road-way and I guess that will have to be cut up and hauled away before traffic resumes.

The second pair of photos shows flooded playing fields, many of which are appropriately located on the flood-plain. These two are both soccer fields and I played on the top one many years ago. However, there are pitches for the other football codes, baseball, and cricket - all sodden or actually inundated.

The first of the last two pictures shows a point where the Dumaresq Creek is forced into a narrow channel and is flowing fast. In the background is the car park of the Ex-Services Club to which Dot and I belong, but the premises were safe this time. The other view is rotated 180 degrees and looks east downstream through Armidale's central parkland. My pictures shown two posts ago were taken from the bridge in the background. Oh dear! It's now raining hard again and Bureau of Met's website shows torrential falls just west of here.

AS