Aftermath
As I was saying to 
firecat the other day, aftermaths are messier and take longer than anyone really wants.
We had a really heavy rain- and thunderstorm yesterday afternoon and evening, 100mm was recorded a few km from here. I went for a walk this morning, and noticed that on the one hand, that the places I walk on the ground rather than pavement now tend to be more slippery after rain because that thin layer of flooding mud gets re-wetted, and on the other hand, the trees down along the creek that have a perfect horizontal line of flooding mud below, clean leaves above, still have that perfect horizontal line - apparently that stuff doesn't wash off.
There's a house opposite the local oval that has a tree with a bird feeder out front, which is where I first saw little corellas locally. They put out bird seed early in the morning, so if you got up for your walk early you'd see the birds. Oh yeah, the house is opposite that oval, I'd guestimate the house's roofline at somewhere on that sign. I was surprised how soon after the flooding I saw the birds back, and the feeding is still going on - yesterday morning it was mainly rainbow lorikeets, this morning a mixture of galahs, little corellas and crested pigeons. The house next to this one is clearly uninhabited and probably going through slow clean up. But when I stopped paying attention to the birds to look more closely at the house itself as I went past, I don't really think anyone is living there at the moment, either.
I'm not sure what to think, how to feel about people who've had to leave their home because it was submerged and yet come back each morning to feed the birds. I couldn't do it. I hope they're staying somewhere nearby. Seeing the birds is cheerful and yet makes me sad for what people have lost.
ETA: this is a (flood) view down the street in question. The house with the bird feeder is the small bit you can see of duller-red roof, just in front of the flat metal roof, on the right side. J took these pictures about 12 hours before what turned out to be peak flood level, which I think was about two feet higher than this.
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firecat the other day, aftermaths are messier and take longer than anyone really wants.
We had a really heavy rain- and thunderstorm yesterday afternoon and evening, 100mm was recorded a few km from here. I went for a walk this morning, and noticed that on the one hand, that the places I walk on the ground rather than pavement now tend to be more slippery after rain because that thin layer of flooding mud gets re-wetted, and on the other hand, the trees down along the creek that have a perfect horizontal line of flooding mud below, clean leaves above, still have that perfect horizontal line - apparently that stuff doesn't wash off.
There's a house opposite the local oval that has a tree with a bird feeder out front, which is where I first saw little corellas locally. They put out bird seed early in the morning, so if you got up for your walk early you'd see the birds. Oh yeah, the house is opposite that oval, I'd guestimate the house's roofline at somewhere on that sign. I was surprised how soon after the flooding I saw the birds back, and the feeding is still going on - yesterday morning it was mainly rainbow lorikeets, this morning a mixture of galahs, little corellas and crested pigeons. The house next to this one is clearly uninhabited and probably going through slow clean up. But when I stopped paying attention to the birds to look more closely at the house itself as I went past, I don't really think anyone is living there at the moment, either.
I'm not sure what to think, how to feel about people who've had to leave their home because it was submerged and yet come back each morning to feed the birds. I couldn't do it. I hope they're staying somewhere nearby. Seeing the birds is cheerful and yet makes me sad for what people have lost.
ETA: this is a (flood) view down the street in question. The house with the bird feeder is the small bit you can see of duller-red roof, just in front of the flat metal roof, on the right side. J took these pictures about 12 hours before what turned out to be peak flood level, which I think was about two feet higher than this.
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