I woke this morning to the sound of heavy rain on our tin roof! What a beautiful noise! It's been raining here, very heavily at times, for hours. The gutters are gushing, the drainpipes are overflowing and our water tanks are filling up. We think we've had around 60-70mm of rain so far!
Of greater interest to our boy though, is what's happening down at the little creek at the bottom of our street. Umbrella up, and together with his Dad, he set off for the creek to see for himself the impact of all this heavy rain. Typically, this creek has just a trickle of water in it but, on days like today, it becomes a swollen, fast-moving, somewhat bigger torrent.
Here are some photos our boy took:
A waterfall.
A cascade.
Up and over the little bridge.
Rushing away downstream.
Localised flooding.
Bark flowing away like lava at the urging of the water.
Needless to say, both my intrepid, rainy-day adventurers returned home from the creek a lot less dry than when they set out! In the ensuing excitement of sharing the photos and videos he took, my boy and I talked about the incredible power of water that he had just witnessed for himself on a small, localised scale. It's quite something to see all the bark from your little local playground being washed out and away at the behest of fast-flowing waters. "It was like lava, Mum!"
I hope, if you live in our area of South-East Queensland, that you are dry and safe as the rain pours down today.
Meg
Hi Meg, as I type it has stopped raining here, and in fact the sky is lightening up, so maybe that's it for this "weather event" no damage here and no flooding as far as we know. Today I have been cooking up a storm, I cleaned out the freezer of bits and bobs. Either already made or in the making are- rice pudding, blueberry jam, pancake mix made from whey for Sunday breakfast , lime butter from the juice of 22 limes, lots of lovely extra food for the next couple of days and weeks. Hope tomorrow is sun shiny although I didn't mind all that glorious rain. Have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you've been very busy in your kitchen, Fiona. Rainy days are wonderful for cooking and baking. I've got some silverside simmering away in my big soup pot with apple cider vinegar, coconut sugar, mustard, onions and carrots. Dinner tonight will be sandwich fare tomorrow and fritters too at some stage. Delicious! I hope you have a wonderful weekend too. Meg:)
DeleteHi Meg, we had 90mm overnight as the rains moved down the coast toward you. As a teenager I lived in the outer northern suburbs of Brisbane and I used to love walking around after a rain event such as this to see the creeks rushing.
ReplyDeleteHi, Sherri. Sounds like you've had some soaking rains up at your place. Do you have water tanks to catch it all? Where we live, we are very blessed to have forest just out our front door and our closest walking track takes us all the way to our little local shops. We can walk or ride our bikes there and back! Thanks for stopping by! Meg:)
DeleteMeg, we have a couple of water tanks and a small dam.
DeleteSherri, we have a large water tank under our house and a much smaller tank under our back verandah. It's lovely to think that we can capture and store some of this amazing rain.
DeleteWe copped it here on the North Coast too! Our roof even leaked, fortunately it was over the kitchen sink!
ReplyDeleteThat is lucky, Cheryl. How fortunate that your roof leaks over your sink:)
DeleteThat is some rain! I guess you needed it tho?
ReplyDeleteYes, the rain was very welcome here. Our small water tank was empty and our large tank, that is under our house, also needed topping up. I think the soil would've been happily soaking up as much moisture as possible too given the unseasonably warm Autumn we had.
DeleteHi Meg, sounds like it's very wet up your way. Just saw you have nominated me for a leibster award. Many thanks, will try to post reply this week. Have spent ages today reading your blog...love it !
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, I'm looking forward to your reading your answers. I like visiting your blog too and reading all your gardening posts! Meg:)
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