Saturday 23 February 2013

the wind blows and the water rises...again


Yesterday and last night we experienced wild winds and lots of rain, the above picture shows a 40ft tree that landed on our house yesterday afternoon, it was pretty dramatic and a little scary, luckily nobody was hurt but we do have an impressive leak in our kitchen due to a few broken roof tiles and the back awning is looking slightly precarious. It didn't, however stop us from going to a curry night by candlelight at Woo and Eno's delicious and wildly fun, wildly due largely to the weather conditions, but some of the topics of conversations, whoa!
The flood, which you can check out here, is the largest a lot of people have seen, reaching 9.2 metres overnight, it has been made especially impressive due to a lot of the smaller creeks flooding. The town is cut off, with the road leading to Dorrigo looking like a lake and the road leading to Coffs looking very similar. In town lots of people are checking out the Bellinger River, discussing the rain to come, fallen trees, rescue stories and marvelling at the power of Mother Nature. We have stocked up on food, although currently Kombu and IGA remain open and boiled a few pots of water, as instructed by a local, who has seen many floods, and only one bigger than this one. 
We have heard varying reports, some saying things will start to clear today, other predicting a whole lot more rain, it has currently stopped raining, which meant we could borrow a chainsaw and get our winter firewood sorted and air things out a bit. We will also be housing a parent and two teenagers for the next night or so who have been left stranded on this side of the bridge and have been staying at the backpackers. Will keep you posted but here's hoping for clear skies and change in direction for the expected rain. 

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  1. Wowsiers glad your all ok. Floods look bad. This side of the world (uk) we have cold crisp days and snow flurries today ;o)

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    1. Hi Emma, thanks for your thoughts, ah cold crisp days and snow flurries, how wonderful. We are still dealing with the clean up after the tree; chopping firewood and removing broken tiles. best wishes jay

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  2. the rain just keeps on coming doesn't it! Hope a big dry patch sets in soon and patching up your roof is a small job. Up my way Southern Qld we're set for another week of rain, and our poor beaches are getting washed away. But all are well and safe so for that I am grateful x

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    1. Hi Natalie, how is your place holding up? Yes the rain seems to be lingering around here, Poe is still off school due to the roads being unsafe for the buses, I think there is a long jam under one of the bridges, meaning a lot of water is still going over the bridge. Here's hoping it gets fixed soon, in the meantime we are loving a bit of a holiday together. xxx

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  3. Oh wow, poor lovely stay safe. I thought of you this weekend when hearing all that was going on. I hope you got some new bread book baking on (phew that was a mouthful lol). Sorry to hear about your house. Please stay safe, dry and warm..x.xxxx...much love xxx

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    1. Oh that beautiful breadmaking book, unfortunately due to the power outages we didn't get to baking this weekend but we do have quite a few pages marked, we can't wait. Hope all is well with you and yours. love to you. xx

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  4. Such a huge thing to go through, and now the rain is coming down again...
    Jodi from che&fidel gave me a link to your blog today on a photo-post I did on Bellingen - from sunnier days.
    You have a gorgeous blog here, so good to have discovered another North Coast blogger.
    Fingers crossed your little town doesn't cop too much more water. Enough already!
    x
    Megan

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