Apparently the wet season either peters out or goes out with a bang, such is legend. It looks like it's another bang year cause these last few days have been one for the records.
This happened last Tuesday. This is my old neighborhood, the cruddy one I lived in before I moved to Alligator paradise.
This is a park and ouch to the house in the distance.
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| Looking down the street sends memories of Yasi through my head. |
This is the horrible house I used to live in, looks like the insides got a good whack with the fan and the eave lying out front, glad I wasn't there!!!
This is the Alligator Creek bridge, the water got so high that it actually flowed over and cut off access to the highway. The highway was cut between Townsville and Ayr (90kms south) in 4 places!
To the left and right are views from either side of the bridge once I could drive over it again.
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| This is Alligator Creek, cut off two homes and the National Park, just one property next to us. |
Some serious raging water! There are billboards up during the wet encouraging people not to cross flooded roads. There are also TV ads with cartoon characters telling kids not to play in pipes and drains!
Our creek flooded too, it only flows heavily when Alligator Creek floods.
This is on Alligator Creek road which leads to my house, luckily I live on high ground!
The paddock on the left was so flooded that is created it's own little waterfall!
Despite all of the crazy weather we experience in North Queensland, it's still a beautiful place to live! I'm going to miss the wet season.
WOW. Just... WOW. I mean, I know we get flooding but nothing at that level. So glad you guys were lucky enough to have the place on high ground and definitely happy you did not have to go through another storm in your old crummy place.
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