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Well, the creek has receded; I was beginning to have my doubts it would ever do so, but that was silly of course.
Once the rain stops, the creek goes down, and I should know that.
Yesterday afternoon, the rain stopped. You can clearly see it in the graph because the creek level just fell drastically.

But – the water may be down, but the damage remains to be repaired.
First, the good news. We can get out (hurray!)

But the bad news is that we can only get out by 4WD (the average sedan doesn’t have the clearance to go through some of the dips, although I suppose in an emergency it would be worth trying). The road is officially closed – the council truck was coming in to inspect as we went out and dropped the signs.

Here’s the photos.

The green bridge has taken massive damage, but by some miracle we can still cross it. There is a major wash out and there is a big bit that has been washed out underneath, so we are careful not to drive over that section. Most of the bitumen surface is gone, particularly where the concrete joins the bituman – big chunks missing!

A lot of the side rail is gone, or badly damaged.

So hopefully the council will be out to inspect and schedule the repairs immediately!

Update

Dave popped down the road and says someone has filled up the holes on the Green Bridge with dirt, to make it passable by sedan. I wouldn’t want to take my sedan through it, but ts a start!

Further down, we came to the low bridge. It is still well over and, again, where the bitumen joins the concrete, there has been a major washout – the water depth post has completely gone!

It is quite passable, however.

The otherside of the low bridge is in quite poor condition.

There are major washouts all along the road. Ignoring the green bridge, this is the worst section. We didn’t get a photo of the worst part that we have to drive over, but there is a piece where the remaining bitumen is only a metre wide and water hides how sharp the edge is.

Further up, we were finally able to see what the Curtis Lane crossing is like – to no surprise, its still under. (This is a side road which runs down as a very low crossing through the creek – it is quite common for there to be water over this road. It doesn’t even really qualify as a ‘bridge’). Someone has lost a trailer somewhere, and it is stuck across the crossing. It’ll have to be cleared before the few residents up that road are able to get out.

On our way home we checked the bridge above us (the “Fourth Bridge”). It is still under and looked fine – we didn’t walk it to check it as we had no need to go up there. You can see how high the water got from the debris line.

Finally, our neighbour’s almost-a-bridge is uncovered. There is a little damage, not much, but huge amounts of silt piled around it.

Shame about his car

Click through to yesterday to see picture of our Cedar Creek in full flood.

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