a land of flooding rains.......!

The branches that give shade over the garden

 are now so heavy they drag on the ground.

Look past them and the world is a sea of grey.

The sound, as the rain falls on the roof, is deafening

Forget listening for the warnings on the radio, 

It can’t be turned up high enough to hear.

For days they have been forecasting this downpour

 and for days it has been somewhere else. 

We had thought it would pass us by.

But it hasn’t…it has now been falling constantly

 and heavily for the last three hours 

and because the ground is already so full of water

 there is nowhere for all this rain to go. 

The car in the drive is sitting in at least three inches of water, 

it is reaching up to the verandah, 

and the house is above the flood levels, 

it just has nowhere else to go!

For those in the direct path of the waters

 this is a terrifying time

 and one that many of them have had to face three times in the last three years.

                                                                                                                                                                          

They are locking up their homes, 

leaving their possessions

 and waiting,  

 waiting for the waters to reach their highs 

and then they wait for the flood waters to recede  

and then 

when the waiting is over they have to go back, 

unlock the doors 

and start the horrendous clean-up

Throwing out ruined, treasured, belongings, 

rescuing those that can be rescued 

and washing off  the mud, that doesn’t want to be washed off!

Rebuilding their lives and hoping that this will be the last time!

and now it looks as though the forecast is for more next week!!!!

Me, I have started work on an ark!!!!!

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