Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flood. Show all posts

Saturday, February 05, 2011

moonee ponds creek this morning

It's been more flooded near our place in recent memory, but it's still quite impressive. It's incredible how much plastic crap is disgorged when it rains heavily. I suppose this is a very recent phenomenon (last 20 years?). I mean, I remember when plastic shopping bags were a cool new thing.

In the most extensive flood we've seen, the water came up to the top of the scoreboard which you see in the distance below (or if you can't see it, let's say it covered the bridge and taken from this same position the water would have filled 2/3 of this image). (Make that 3/4):

merri creek this morning

This morning we went on a short walk at Merri Creek and Perry chose to go down here, which was an unmade road called I forget what. Maybe Me...