You have all heard the crazy things going on in this town (and some of you who read this blog are experiencing them first hand!). We had 210mm of rain on the 17th from a big monsoonal trough that passed over us, then it went inland from us and dropped a whole lot of rain over our river catchment areas. It all happened so fast that the town got flooded from the rain on the 18th and then a river came down and caused more flooding on the 19th... and boy did it come down. It peaked at 7.9m and it is the biggest river we have EVER recorded. So apart from all that devastation, lost houses, crops, roads what it has done is completely isolate the town. You can only drive about 10ks in any direction before you hit the sea or a levy bank that's impassable or a ruined flooded road that's impassable.
And so that means no trucks can deliver anything.... mail, fruit, veg, meat, milk, medicine, presents, bread....
Luckily our household is already pretty well stocked in most of these areas, a quick last minute grab of what we could at the shops yesterday and that was it! The cats have food, we have a ham and homemade Christmas pudding, plenty of beer and wine and we are gonna have Christmas! Floods or not!
All your Alaska ornaments crack me up! And you made the cookies, are they good?? They look cute :) I am sure you guys will have a great Christmas despite all the wet. Just think, you have the perfect excuse to stay at home in your jammies all day and eat cookies! Is there any word on when they expect you to re-connect with the rest of the country?
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