"You're wet, " Rif Raf says to Janet. "Yes....it's raining."

Righto then...here's the latest creek height trace from our creek, but recorded at a station a little closer to our place, and as you can see there has been some serious movement upwards. What this actually means is that we have been flooded out. Lismore hadn't received a great deal of rain yesterday, so the creek rising over our bridge was the last thing on our minds as we drove merrily home, right up to when we almost ran into the back of the cars parked in front of it, not being able to cross. Ooowah! As you can see from the pic below the flooding didn't stop some of the Billen community from crossing over.

Just joking....though the swirling foamy waters depicted in this pic are similar to what we saw at our creek. After a quick phone call to our friend Glen, we drove all the way back down the valley to Lismore, got Glen's housekey from him at his Donut King shop (where he was staying back while a contractor repaired his floor) and then drove up to his place at Dunoon, via the Modanville takeaway to but pizza and hamburgers.

The rain is now torrential, we've spoken to one of our neighbours who told us the creek is at least 1.5metres above the bridge, so we won't be returning home for a couple of days I'd say. being flooded in was going to be an adventure - being flooded out is less so. I'm most concerned about the plantings I have done along the creek as they would all be under about 2 metres of water at the moment. Hmm then there's the lovely Madagascan Palm featured in a post below which may now have been snapped in half by the strong winds, the basement that might have flooded and the chooks that need feeding. Life in the country.