We had big plans for this weekend. I promised to help Nathan with the garage. We need to get the last of the foam onto the back corner so that we can start rendering and stuff.
So I wandered around, doing my own thing, whilst Nathan did his own thing - trying to stop a leak in the toilet filling pipe (note he forgot to tell me that he hadn't fixed it and had not reconnected the pipe...until after I discovered there was no water in the cistern....).
Then I came home. Within half an hour, the sky turned dark grey and the trees bent under the gale-force wind:
and suddenly it was persisting down! The rain was coming in sideways:
I discovered that the front porch is not water-tight - there is a gap between the house guttering and the laserlight.
Within 15 minutes, we had had at least 7mm of rain (someone had not emptied the rain gauge for a couple of weeks), but more like 10-15 cos the garden started looking a bit flooded.
Anyway, after an hour it seemed ok to go out again. The garden was damp but not flooded - it seems to soak up any moisture it gets. Our previous place would've been under water. The radar map looked like this:
(image copyright BoM.gov.au) The rain band was to the north of us. We only needed to go a kilometre north of where we live and a couple of ks west.
Well.... let's just cut it short. (most pics not clickable)
The normally placid drain by Springvale Road at Spaghetti Junction:
The corner I wanted to turn left at.
This brave car (a year old Mazda 6) took on the flood waters of unknown depth at the corner where I wanted to turn left. Nathan said ah just follow them. Go on! It is OK!:
I am very glad that I didn't follow it. a) the water was rising as we sat waiting for the lights to change, and b) this:
Oh dear!
The local drain/creek - the concrete base is about a metre under water here:
The "retarding basin"
(if you look at the big image, you might just be able to see some spots on the water - these are native ducks. Normally they swim really close to the edge of the weir, but not this time!)
The sun starts breaking out:
The radar map when we got home, safe and sound thanks to my lovely little car:
And the rain gauge - emptied before we went out:
So much for getting that last lot of foam on the back corner of the garage! Maybe it is not DH's brother who is the jinx!
2 comments:
Eeeeee scary water! Amazing photos, not sure I would have had the presence of mind to take them, more likely be gaping in awe/terror :-)
Weather is very cold and very dry at the moment. It definitely froze last night as the birdbaths were all iced over. Not a fleck of ice on the cars, which is unusual for this damp country.
Ha!! Ken got his car full of water, in Fairfield, (remember where KraftKolour used to be, before the last flood over here, with the technicolour street for a couple of days, LOL), but it just rained a bit over here. Had fun watching the black clouds go out Canterbury Rd, and up the Yarra Valley - we seem to be in a bit of a rain shadow here.
In a new house, you need a couple of these storms, and an equinoxial gale or two, and a wet winter to find out what you've bought!!! Look for strange bubbly/soggy bits mysteriously appearing in the ceilings and round the cornices, and think ridge capping, and blocked spouting/downpipes!!
Cheers, Karen
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