Plenty of precipitation.
So....yesterday and through the night we had 93 mms of rain and another 43 mms so far today. The dam has come up quite a bit but has not yet reached our second highest marker that we placed after the first big rain following the drought earlier last year.
We are hearing rumours that in just a day Storm King Dam has gone from 25% full to 100% and is about to start spilling. If true, that is incredible and will surely mean that the town's water restrictions will be over.
This morning the Severn River down at Glen Aplin was still just large, seperate pools but this afternoon, at 3.30 pm, it was flowing again. That is the first time in over a year.
The New England Highway, to the south of us, at Ballandean is closed because of flooding and Ballandean resembles a lorry park with trucks unable to continue south for the moment.
It is looking like it has passed over us now and is heading east down to the coast and out to sea. Tracy, down on the Clarence, is already cut off and is expecting the river to rise to its highest tonight. We are hoping it doesn't cross the road and flood under her house and garden.
I ran our neighbour's boys to the school bus this morning as both their parents had early starts today for work. A wattle tree had come down by the road and we had to clear another branch off the road to get out. Not long after we got home another wattle tree fell over right by Blue Moon but Will and I never heard a thing. It almost flattened our silkies coop.
We caught a rat in one of our traps last night and Will was going to release it on his way to work but forgot and left without it. I put the trap in the car and set off down the road a little later to release it way down the hill but found another wattle tree had fallen over the road and I couldn't get out. I had to drive back up the hill to get the chainsaw then back down again to cut it up. I let the flippin' rat go at the end of the lane and then drove back up to the house. I was already soaked from cutting up the wattle tree in the rain so set about cutting up the other two that had fallen over up the hill. I needed windscreen wipers on my glasses. As I was wielding the chainsaw I marvelled at how my life has changed since moving here.
We removed the two young, rampant roosters from Fort Yudhisthira tonight. I was sick, and I am very sure those poor hens are, of watching them chase and jump on our elderly girls. They have been moved to 'Death Row'.
Their end is nigh.