Just had a phone call from my son, the truck driver.

He hasn't been home for two weeks, this was his weekend off.

On his last run for the fortnight from Melbourne to Wagga.

You guessed it.

He's half way between Holbrook and Tarcutta and that looks like where he will stay till the floods go down.

No food, No drink and No Ciggies.

Sent me a pic of his street in The Rock, nice lake I must say.

Hi Ma ..

.. and it looks like its not over yet either .. so all do take care ..

Pity we can't store some of the water before it disappears .. sort of makes desalination plants a waste of money ..

Jon

Hi Travel that road frequently. Went through middle Sept and was amazed at the level of water then. When I came back in early Oct it had virtually all dissappeared. Been going back and forwards regularly for last ten years and would never have considered that road would have a flood problem. Hope it goes down soon as I will need to make another trip shortly.

We have been camped at Mt Remarkable NP for the last week.Beautiful spot on high ground next to Mambray creek, 2 days of rain and the creek started to run.Amazing to see that first trickle  followed by a wall of water.

I would if I could Thomma but it's on my mobile phone and I haven't got a clue how to get it onto the computer.

I know with some other photos I got from my niece a while ago I asked her to email them to me as I couldn't get them off the phone and when she did they were so small that you couldn't see much detail.

Just an update: Andrew got home in the small hours of this morning. He talked to some of the police and SES and although they weren't happy about it they let him through as he was in the truck. When he got home there was a foot of water through his garage. The creek at the back of his place had broken it's banks. My grandaughter also lives at The Rock and they evacuated her at 2.44am this morning into Wagga. Also evacuated the nursing home. Hopefully the water will recede over today and they can get to the clean up tomorrow.

Thanks anyway Ma.

I guess the photo's are around the internet, just a matter of finding them.

Your son may know my cousin, surname is Thomas, and they farm about 8 - 10 klm east of The Rock!

I will ask him when he rings tonight Thommo

Gerty Dancer wrote:

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The weather map showed that there was rain just about everywhere on the continent. I'm wondering if there are any drought-declared areas left??

Hope everybody is safe, and the clean-up not too daunting.

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Gert,

Most of the wheat belt of WA is very bad, not much crop around, things are very serious.
WA expects to receive only about half of the usual amount of grain.
As a rough guide, anything south of the Gt. Eastern Highway is very low on predicted production with the possible exception of a small area around Esperance.
So things arn't good everywhere!!

When I get photos on my mobile i can forward them to my email address then open them on the computer.

I'll give it a go Pam

Just tried it Pam, didn't work. The other thing he sent me was a video of The Rock but I don't think I can send that to my email either. I couldn't find any option to do so.

That's Oz. That's what we see when we have wheels under us. The variation of terrain, climate, effects of the climate from season to season, mile by mile, or kilometre by kilometre. The harvest isn't decided until the grain is in the silo. It's ironic to learn that area of WA has missed out when it usually does well when others don't do so well. The cane farmers can't get into the fields to harvest the sugar cane. The spud farmers are digging in mud. Some grain crops will be damaged by the floods, heavy rains and storms. Who'd be a farmer? All the best to the farmers and pastoralists out there, waiting their turn to take on this lifestyle. Hang in there. The wait is worth it.