The Big Wet

Well, after a few days of really high humidity and little sleep at night, today the land turned to water! When the rain fell, it really fell! The joy of my room at school is that there is no covering to reach the main school buildings, so the kids didn't want to go out. For that matter, neither did I! So I didn't! I stayed hiding in my room, doing all my paperwork.

Well, I did that for as long as that lasted. Suddenly, the power went out. Lights, computers, all of it. I discovered that water had been pouring into the art room next door. As our building is lower than most of the school the water flowed down the pipes and out into the teacher's room! There was a good 5cms of water lying on the floor! As if that wasn't enough, the water started flowing out of the power box! It was this that brought the maintenance guys and the Principal running, which resulted in the power being turned off ASAP!

Then I turned around and caught a glimpse of the creek! I did a double take! It was flowing like a river! The Principal told me that it was flowing over the road-bridge! Insane! The new foot-bridge was still standing tall.

Brisbane city was underwater. Cars were stacked on top of each other, with water up to the windows! Apparently it was the heaviest rainfall in 9 years!

Norman Hotel car park