Newcastle flood

Newcastle flood
Originally uploaded by jvx2

This photo brings back memories of the 2007 flooding in Newcastle. I remember the day well. I was on maternity leave with my then 6 week old daughter. My husband was home too since he couldn't work in the rain (he has a Jim's mowing Business). I thought it was just a normal storm coming and i decided i wanted to go to the shops to get out of the house for a bit. I left my baby and husband at home. I went in to Kmart and was looking around and water started leaking through the roof into the shop. Staff came running. I had finished shopping and went out to the car. It was pouring with rain. Driving home i started to realise whilst i had been shopping their had been a huge downpour causing flooding!!!!!!! I didn't know till part of the way home when i saw cars driving so slowly and traffic being redirected. I managed to get home. I saw my husband outside checking out the situation with water upto his ankle or calfmuscle.! Fortunatley the water slowly subsided. We could have been a lot worse off. To think we had been trying to organise improving our drainage around the house a few weeks earlier. At least it is done now. Newcastle had more flooding just the other day