I've been out of town the last week so I haven't been posting until now. I went to Townsville for my nephew's geology degree graduation and we had the heaviest rain in ten years. To cut a long story short, the coast road is still flooded and I got home via the inland route. There was plenty of wild life on the middle of the road, including grey kangaroos, two wedgetail eagles, wild boars, several loose cattle, a turtle and even a tree kangaroo!. We successfully avoided all those in the car, missed three speed traps and a two highway patrol cars by luck and nearly made it home, only to have a car heading travelling on the wrong side towards us on a four lane highway at night nearly hit me with my elderly mother travelling with me in the passenger seat.
Luckily the house was perfectly fine, I have been fitting underground drainage which copes with all but the most serious rain. We are on the coast in a flood delta so it's all relative. I heard it was 30" of rainfall over three days, mostly well South of here so the highway is still blocked along the coast.
That's crazy! We average 40" in a year, and I thought that was plenty! It's hard to visualize what an inch of rain looks like, but I do a mental comparison to snow. 1" of rain = approximately 1' of snow. But you're right, it's all relative. Pete
40 Inches is the total rainfall for March 2017, let alone a full year. It's the price we pay for winter low temps of 60 degrees F, sometimes it gets so cold that I have to wear slightly thicker fabric shirts .
