Flood!

[freyakitten]

Parts of Adelaide are flooded out, again. Apparently, some time between my last post and this morning, the Adelaide Hills got quite a bit more than the total average rain for November. The whale in the SA Brewery nativity display was floating down the river this morning, and the stable-with-manger is flooded out like Aldgate and Gawler. That's it in the middle of the photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_tennille/61213988/ On the 6pm news, the shots showed water halfway to the top of the stable. Mind you, the reporter was standing in Gawler and saying "See this? Underneath that water is a road."

Some suburbs were competely cut off today.

We're dry. Even the Somme Swamp dried out a bit when the sun came out this afternoon.

The reservoirs are close to bursting their banks. Bring on summer!

Comments

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Blimey. I've always been told Adelaide is permanently drought-stricken!

[freyaw.livejournal.com]

We usually are. About once in every ten or fifteen years the reservoirs are full at the start of summer - this time they were trying to prevent them overflowing.

We're not the only ones with flooding problems. http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17183776-421,00.html?from=rss
There's a town in NSW that's getting completely evacuated.

There are a few roads in the hills with stability problems due to undercutting.

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

The Torrens does occaisionally flood. I believe we are still overdue for another 100-year flood (that's the one in a century flooding where the Torrens really overflows it's banks; most modern development near the river is well within this level. Although my favourite idiocy is Unley council allowing development over Brownhill Creek. Needless to say, such housing is well within the 10 year flood levels. The result of the last flood - they sued the Council for allowing them to build there and not preventing flooding.