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I wonder how koko monsters in the dungeon is getting on?
I'm Baaacccckkkk!
:-x Thanks for thinking of me, Pimpy
It's been a wild and exhausting few days - we have been totally flooded into our property and cut off from telephone, internet and power - this is a photo of our driveway bridge/fiord under water. We estimate at the peak it would have been a metre underwater and was flowing very fast. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of its normal flow, it is usually a gentle little creek that flows under the bridge (you can jump the creek usually)!
By Sunday morning we were trapped, on Sunday afternoon we thought the house was going to be breached, it came way too close for comfort. We spent all Sunday preparing, dragging the caravan and animals to higher ground and making temporary shelters for them, putting all my baby chicks and the baby Tawny up on the highest shelves in the kitchen, kitting out the caravan with food, water etc for all. Spent the day soaking wet, went through about six changes of clothes.
The creek has now subsided enough to get over this morning, but the water flow has taken a lot of the concrete bridge away and left massive holes, so we were only able to get out by bottoming out the 4x4. Went up the road to get all our provisions and bloody car broke down at the first shop. Spent 4.5 hours waiting for a tow truck, came back, bottomed out our other 4x4 over the creek, went back out, now back at home with car on other side of creek - will look at attempting to fix driveway tomorrow.
We are both shattered, but so grateful that we have survived relatively intact thus far. If the worst that we got through this was a buggered driveway, a broken down car and a lost three days, then we have been extremely lucky. The worst part was not knowing - not knowing if there was more coming, not being able to contact family and friends, who were of course so very worried about us.
