We are deluged here right now, we've had a ton of rain over the last few weeks so the ground is saturated, and today alone we've had 100mm (4 inches). Here are some pics near my folks place, I haven't gone out to get pics of the creek near my house, it's only about 20 metres away. I'll try and have some tommorow. It doesn't looks SO bad in the pics, but in a day or two, all the water will have come down from the hills and snowfields... The last time we had floods like this was in 1993, and I hope to jeebus it doesn't get that bad. Those floods were famous for all the dead cows found in tops of the trees after being washed downstream. During those floods my family, well the whole town really, was trapped for about a week. Not that I could have gone to work anyway, it was underwater too! Not good for a computer factory!!
This ute was heading north into town.
This is the view east
This is the Boggy Creek bridge and bike path, normally the Boggy Creek is a trickle and is normally about 3metres below the bridge.
Heading north
My folk's place, heading west out of town Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
we had really bad rain and storms here last weekend, flooded the streets and mini park near my parents' home. it was only the 2nd time i had seen that kind of weather here in Phoenix. we had high winds, rain blowing sideways, trees completely uprooted.
Posted by Valley (Member # 1322) on :
Glad both of you and your families are safe. It is amazing how weather can be so wicked at times. I want to retire to a beach someday, but the constant threat of a hurricane wiping out everything I worked so hard to achieve has me a bit concerned about my plan. Not stopping it though!
Stitch.. give us an update once the water subsides.
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Here is the back of my house from the bike path across the creek
That was Sunday, now it's Monday...
Around town -
In a local park -
and 30 minutes later...
Posted by Secret Admirer (Member # 3574) on :
Holy cow, that is some serious flooding! Is your home gonna make it? I grew up in an area that flooded pretty much every year, so I've seen the devastation first hand. Do you have a canoe to get around in and save folks from their rooftops?
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
This is from the local newspaper, the Wangaratta Chronicle. This bridge is in a little town called Whitfield, about 30kms from my parents place. The bridge is solid concrete, just on 10 years old.
Just a note on the pics above of the top of Yogi Bear's head... he is a kids ride in the Apex Park, and locals use Yogi as a standard measurement for flooding. You know it's bad if Yogi is underwater!
Posted by Mike. (Member # 7179) on :
Hope things get better for you soon and the flooding misses your house,it seems there is some real freaky weather in your part of the world at the moment. What with the flooding and then the earthquake in New Zealand over the weekend.
