I won’t be at school on Tuesday
Over the weekend, my neighbours and I held a regatta out on the street in front of our houses. A regatta you say – but you need water for that. Well look below at the photos that I took.
One of the neighbours called the ABC and they sent down a photographer and reporter. Our regatta was mentioned on the news on Saturday night. Since then the water level has risen even further and two cars about the same size as mine have been stuck and had to be pulled out of the water on the road. This is not good for the underside of the car nor the engine and certainly not the brakes.
Underneath that water are some dangerous potholes – one at least two metres long and about 50cms deep. The council are going to try and pump away some of the water but that won’t be until Wednesday so we have been told. With more rain due tonight and tomorrow, I feel safer in my house and not trying to leave my driveway to get to school.
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- Pedestrians watch your step
September 28, 2009 @ 7:22 pm
Oh my goodness Sue I hope all is okay? That is quite scary and I am thinking of you.
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September 29, 2009 @ 2:23 am
O my gosh! I hope no one was hurt? A couple years ago a bridge, here in the USA broke and alot of the cars fell into the river! It was scary
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September 29, 2009 @ 11:23 pm
that looks like fun. i hope everything went well.
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October 1, 2009 @ 7:39 am
Hi Miss. W!
Thanks for visiting my blog!
Wow, that is a lot of water!It looks like a river, not a street. The regatta you and your neighbors held does sound fun though.
I hope the water will dry up soon!
-Dominique
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October 1, 2009 @ 3:05 pm
Its it fun being in Australia?
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October 3, 2009 @ 6:32 am
wow! That’s really cool, i hope everybody is okay and that nobody lost their home. Way before I was born, in my old town, the Naugatuck River flooded and half of downtown was underwater, you can still see the waterline in some of the buildings.
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October 3, 2009 @ 9:50 am
Thanks all for being concerned. The council has since come in and pumped the water out and fixed the huge pot-holes that were underneath. There were quite a few streets in the town that had low lying water but our street was the worst. Hopefully the council will think a little more when planning drainage around our town.
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October 4, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
[...] example, in my post about why I wasn’t at school last Tuesday, I used images I had taken, so I didn’t have to say on the post where I got the pictures. [...]
October 7, 2009 @ 5:20 am
Hi my name is Anne and I am from Canada. That can be dangours I live by the thamesriver and this march it flooed big time!! I hope no one was hurt! Mabye you can come visit my blog at http://anne110gs.edublogs.org/
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October 16, 2009 @ 6:46 am
wow that looks bad ive never seen a flood like that it must of been dangerous for the little kids hope everyone was safe in the end. It looks really wet.
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