What a night

The rain intensified around 4.30 yesterday and so there was no way we could even contemplate getting home so we bunked down with Glen again. Another friend of his, Mark, had also arrived from Sydney and we were sitting in the lounge room having a quiet bevie around 6.45 when the power went out. And stayed out until about 10.30 this morning. We managed to bbq some chops and sausages for dins and washed these down with a few glasses of wine.
Right now we have the wireless on and the ABC is in disaster-information mode so it's all very exciting. The uni has closed and is now operating as an evacuation centre (I hope I don't go to work on Monday and find a family of four in my office) and all schools are closed in the region. Lismore CBD and suburbs south and north have been evacuated and the Wilson's River is expecting to peak at 10.4metres in a couple of hours and maybe breach the levee bank. The winds were very strong last night causing lots of trees to fall down.
Anton phoned me and apparently our creek has now dropped below the bridge but unfortunately there's no way to get there at the moment - all the roads from Dunoon to our area are blocked by flooded creeks.
If we don't get any more rain then there might be a slight chance of getting back this afternoon but we might just wait and try tomorrow morning.
Just checked the Bureau of Met's page and we've had 9 inches of rain in the past 30 hours.
3.19pm: both our routes from here (Dunoon) to our place at Larnook are still cut by floodwaters, so looks like we won't be back home until tomorrow.