Flood Photos

View from the freeway.. our house is around where the arrow is.



















The road leading to the driveway (arrow). It got to around 1m deep - just a tad too deep for my car.
















The people opposite us weren't so lucky. They had a tree and power lines down over their driveway so they left the cars on the driveway overnight whilst waiting for emergency services. The next morning.... all three cars are ruined.
















The view of the next door neighbours property shows the water coming up well...
















But the water was also rising up in the bushes all around the house. This view is to the east side of the house... the water was about 50cm above the base of the water tanks (I hope all the substrate below the tanks didn't get washed away!!)

Water, water and more water!!

What an eventful week!

We've just been reconnected to the cyberworld because we've just gotten power back after about 60 hours. If you haven't seen the news, there's been a lot of rain on the east coast of New South Wales and there's floods galore! Maitland are in real trouble and the water is expected to peak there tonight. Most of the rain on the Central Coast was over the last 3 days and have now just about stopped. The death toll is at 9 and there are still 110000 homes without power.

Our new home was relatively unscathed. Its just that the road in front of the property flooded and we still can't access the house by car. We can however still get to the house via the neighbour's property. I took some photos on Saturday morning, but the water rose quite a bit more after that.

Anyway, last week, most of the carpentry was finished and the electricians have started work. they were going to be finished by the end of this week (but that may now be a bit delayed) and we were going to put up the walls on Monday week.... fingers crossed.

On the work front, lots of horses have been hurt in the floods but as far as I know, I haven't heard yet of too many losses (but I'll be on call tomorrow and expect a busy day).

I'll post a few photos of the floods next.

Pete