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See this pic? See that car in the right?


That's not our car. Our car is a bit further up the street, and so far the water has not made it inside. However, that is our bin bobbing merrily along at the back there.

Sydney does rain the way that London and Paris do snow ;-) We could prepare better for it, but why, when it so rarely happens? 

Am at home now, which has reassured the cats, who are looking to me for leadership. So far no need for any of my emergency house repair skills, though I have a tarp and towels at the ready should a leak spring. The guttering at the back has pulled off the house, but the water is flooding out away from the wall, so I will leave it for now rather than make things worse. We do, however, have a pool in our courtyard! And it didn't cost a cent!

A friend who lives locally offered me a lift home, I took one look at the traffic and said I would walk. I suspect she may still be trapped somewhere on Erskineville Rd. Meanwhile the paved square near my place is filled with the cars of people who have abandoned their quest to return home and have instead turned to the ample bosom of the Rose of Australia, where an enterprising publican has obviously been frying onions since the rains began this morning -- the scent is magnificent!

Sensible post later. News at nine!

Date: 2010-06-04 07:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com
I saw the flash flood warnings for Sydney - so Erskinville is flooding - looking at that photo just reminds me of summer/early autumn in Brissie and the Rocklea underpass constantly going under water, not to mention the downstairs of my old house. Hope you continue to experience a relatively trouble free rain event....

Date: 2010-06-04 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com
The water's gone down mostly now, thank goodness! Our wading pools are attractive, if not necessarily what I would have gone for given the choice. There were masked lapwings pecking about in the park outside the council estate this morning, and my shoes, with their 1.5 inch soles, are sodden ;-)

Date: 2010-06-04 08:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shu-shu-sleeps.livejournal.com
Better watch out or catsathome (a certain red head we both know with two incredibly well fed and rotund cats) will mysteriously manage to get some gnomes with fishing pools set up in those wading pools........
Hope the shoes can be saved!

Date: 2010-06-04 12:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blamebrampton.livejournal.com
We do have gnomes out the front! And the shoes are MBTs: I decided to wear my chunky trainers!

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