It's Still Raining!

We were watching TV during a thunderstorm last night counting the time lapse between the lightning and the thunderclap. Then there was a huge flash of lightning and an instantaneous clap of thunder! We were still shaking a few minutes later. We thought we had been hit by lightning but we had escaped unscathed. As we were heading to bed, Trish saw the fridge light was off and the microwave clock was off. After turning the power back on from the main electricity board all was going again.

We had a lazy inch or so of rain over night, probably heading towards 2" and I thought I should get the siphon running. It was just after 5 am when it was all operating again. A few minutes later the heavens opened and by 8:30 am we had a grand overnight total of 137mls with the best part 100mls falling between 5 am and 8 am. The street was again flooded and the pool was overflowing.

Currently it is a little after 2:30pm and again the rain gauge has the best part of two inches of rain in it.

Below is a film clip looking out the front of our home this morning with the street flooded. An hour afterwards, the water had disappeared and things were kind of back to normal.

Later in the morning I discovered the pool salt chlorinator wasn't working and that the old media player wouldn't start up! The power pack had died on the Media Player and the main board of the chlorinator had died. I had an old power pack for a hard disk drive that no longer worked so that fixed the Media Player but the chlorinator needed the main board replacing at over $300!

As self chlorinated swimming pools overflow, much of the salt and chemicals goes down the storm water drain. The salt and chemicals need to be replaced. With so much rain lately and with so many salt chlorinated pools in Queensland overflowing, there isn't any swimming pool salt available right now in Queensland.

People will need to resort to throwing chlorine tablets into their skimmer boxes to keep their pool chlorine levels up until the salt supplies return.

Hopefully today is the last of the major rain for us. Only a few showers are predicted for tomorrow right now but as I look outside and only see grey clouds it doesn't seem too promising.

There have been some horrific tales of incredible happenings during the rain. Lives have been lost and small country towns wiped off the map. We are so lucky where we live, the occasional flooded street is about as much as we get.

Today I washed some bottles ready for a bottling but the trick will be to get them dry!