a little more rain....just for the record..

I am sorry I haven't been keeping up to date here with Cyclone Yasi and its movements.
Although it was lucky that it avoided the two major cities up in Nth Queensland, Cairns and Townsville, it wasn't such lucky news for the communities that were in its final path...vegetation denuded ...
houses smashed...
Tully, Mission Beach, Innisfail and Cardwell were some of the smaller communities affected...
many banana plantations devastated...
trees down of course throughout the region...
and these incredible scenes of the marina at Cardwell I think...
and just as we were looking at all the tv footage of the wreckage up north
there was something brewing down here in Victoria...
while we had a tea party
it was turning out to be a wet day
and in the twenty four hours to 9am this morning we had 4 and a half inches of rain...
Daddy had gone off to catch his train at the station in the rain...
while Grandma and number two victim of the current virus played jigsaws
while Mummy ferried children to kindy and school for their first day of term after the long summer Christmas holidays
only a couple more pieces to go for this one...very tricky
how to get this last piece in....
done...

and this morning after the deluge was over, we walked down to see the creek after the water had gushed through it....


whew...that was what it was like earlier today ....
amazing to see all this water rushing through here....it was only a few days ago...or was it last weekend, we walked along here to play tennis at the tennis courts....my son was quite amazed to actually see all the water this morning. He had walked down , and had to come back to get the camera! He has never seen it like this before!

And so as I write this there are small towns and suburbs down here being advised to evacuate ahead of more rain tonight, after the torrential downpours of today and yesterday...just unbelievable! When will it end. They say this is the remnants of Cyclone Anthony (the one previous to Yasi)...Cyclone Yasi is now a tropical depression sitting over the center of Australia...and causing more trouble there! Hope it will not bring any more rain down here...for they sure do not need any more! Some towns have been flooded four times in five months!