Sunday, December 16 2018

Well, we’ve finally had a spot of rain worth documenting – the creek is flowing beautifully and rising steadily to the top of the lower bridges.
Summary: if the rain keeps up, none of us above the low bridge will be going to work tomorrow! Will the rain keep up? Thats the question…

Graph of Creek Height around 3pm (click the image to see the height now in a new window; be aware the graph goes offline after a long period of dry)

(Edit – and since I took that screencap the graph has turned again and is rising – you can click through to see it now!)

We popped down around 3pm during a lull in the rain, to take some photos.

Pszczonka Crossing on Cedar Creek Rd – the first bridge

The first bridge was still clear at 3pm

Downstream view of the first bridge – don’t think we’ve ever published this angle before. The metal sheets act as a gate during the dry, to stop the cattle getting out under the bridge!

On to the low bridge, the second bridge along Cedar Creek Rd.

Upstream view of the low bridge. Lapping, so another good downpour will put it over. However, our experience of these new bridges is they take much longer before they go under and come down faster. So shouldn’t be a big problem…

Downstream view of the low bridge. Clearly we will need a lot more rain before the first bridge goes under…

Wider image of downstream view of the low bridge.

Next we have the Green Bridge – the third bridge along Cedar Creek Rd.

Flowing beautifully, but nowhere near the bridge yet.

Don’t you love that smoothed water effect of a long exposure?

The Fourth Bridge is still a long way from going under.

Downstream

And very pretty!

Upstream

Bonus photos:

Curtis Lane (we cant often get to this spot as we live beyond the low bridge and don’t want to be caught out. But she is rising in a leisurely fashion today…

My favourite: the stone bridge. Its so pretty! I’ve seen this with only the capstones peeking out of the maelstrom – but not today!

So, will we have more rain tonight? The radar indicates very probably. If we get more rain… the bridge will be under and we will be having a rain day! Yay! Or so the kids would all say if they weren’t already on school holidays 😉

Click the image to view the national radar in a new window now

What sort of rainfall did we have?

56mm to 9am this morning (Click the image to see the latest rainfall)

and another 63mm to 3pm today – our tanks are full, thats for sure!

And, lastly, here is the rainfall over time for the last 24 hours, up here in Cedar Creek (data from our weather station)

Stay safe, stay dry!