FLOODS

I am being pushed to move out.
I always thought that if a flood threatened me, you wouldn't see my heels for dust -- um, water.  But no, I'm resisting going.  
I will certainly depart if it looks as if the water is imminently about to invade my space ---- but at present, I don't "believe" it is.  ("Believe", as in, I have no idea!!)
The Pyramid Creek is certainly rising.  We checked on the level around midnight and then again at 7.30 this morning.  It had risen significantly but it's still about 3' below the bridge.   It has filled the lower levels of ground beside the bridge.  The tracks where we could drive on Monday are flooded back 100 yards from the creek..

I might give in and let the caravan go into town this afternoon.  We've packed a lot into it, in the way of things of sentimental value and put other things up high.

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I didn't post any of the above, for some reason.   Now that I am about to post it, it's out of date.
We took the van into town on Thursday and after many abortive attempts to get it into an awkward place in a friend's yard, we gave up and left it in the street beside her house.

Late this afternoon (Saturday), we received the 'emergency evacuation' phone messages and texts from the powers that be.  After considering it, we decided to spend one more night here.  After all, the creek level was much the same.   (You will realise of course, that authorities know what is happening upstream of us and we don't -----  but we choose to base our beliefs on nothing except our hopes!!)

Now, after midnight, we have changed our minds.  We will leave here as soon as I have done the dishes!  It's too late to wake anyone up so we'll just try to sneak into the van and go over to the showgrounds, where there is power.  On Sunday, we will report to the Evacuation Centre and tell them that seeing we are already in the Showgrounds, please can we stay there.  It's much more spacious than the caravan park and nowhere near as crowded as the Evacuation Centre ie. there's no one there. 

The reason for the change of mind was the arrival, around 10.30pm, of  four or five 4 wheel drive vehicles and a huge truck carrying a huge excavator.   Just as Steve galloped out to see what was happening, the phone rang.  It was son Dominic, Superdom, who must have visited every farm in the area in the last week, filling sandbags, shifting cattle, making levees and doing anything he could to help people.  He had decided that we should have a levee bank built all the way around the house.   "Around the house" meaning it will take up about 3 city blocks!   This is going to take hours and hours, so we might as well go.

I will have the internet set up again tomorrow but you won't get much in the way of response from me for a while.  I will probably do my trick of sleeping for 3 days!   That's what I do when I'm anxious.  Neat, huh??!!

Watch this blog for future developments.

Love to all our family and friends,

Laurie

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