Kolan River

[emo_snal]

   It wasn't until the howling sideways rain finished that the floods truly began. Sure, streets had flooded with the immense amounts of water that fell locally, but it wasn't until the immense amounts of water that fell inland got here that we learned what flooding truly was

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[halfmoon_mollie]

uh. Wow. such an exciting life you lead!

[emo_snal]

Well this all was across the river from me. I mainly spent a pretty boring week sitting at home unable to go anywhere. As I said it was surreal because it was a bunch of nice sunny days... with the flood waters slowly rising.

And then it smelled like a swamp and there were mosquitos, both of which I didn't find too exciting ;)

[halfmoon_mollie]

well, see, we're expecting a foot a snow here in the next day or so. Swamp smells, yeah, maybe not so great and I don't care for mosquitos....stay on the high ground!

[emo_snal]

Oh I'll def take snow over mosquitos. I HATE mosquitos. I have bites from three days ago that still itch! ):

[halfshellvenus]

What a great followup to last week's story!

I hope everything is starting to dry out and settle down, so that people aren't in a perpetual state of worry. And shame on the owner of that roadhouse. I hope your friend took his squash back. :(

[emo_snal]

Don't think he was able to. It's just filthy though, really. He _donated_ them to the public, with a sign on the bin saying so, and the other guy commandeered them and sold them for his own profit. And the putting expired baby food on the shelf for a high price? I'm pretty sure that's illegal --- yeah if everyone's desperate maybe put it up for free with a note saying "be advised this is expired! but if you really need it!" ... but you can't SELL expired baby food! d:

[comedychick]

Dude's a pirate, obviously. ;)

[impoetry]

Wow. I'm shell-shocked. Life, and nature can be so awe-inspiring in both negative and positive ways.

[emo_snal]

Yeah it was quite the experience!

[comedychick]

Agree with the comment about this being a great followup to last week's. Holy crap so much water! It's incredible what some people do in the face of disaster, both good and bad.

[momebie]

I still can't get over the pictures you posted before with all of the foam. I'm glad things are slowly getting back to normal.

[emo_snal]

Back to normal, slowly. I drove into Bundaberg for the first time since the storm last night. On the way into town THERE'S A HOUSE IN AN INTERSECTION! And all these boats around town moored to telephone poles.