Yet Another East Coast Low

East coast lows seem to be almost a weekly event this winter. 

We had a few days warning this time to get things secured and on Friday afternoon it arrived with heavy rain.
Over the next 24 hours 50mm (2inches) dumped on us and we were once again quickly flooded.

The ground was truly saturated from the previous two similar weather events.

Over the following 24 hours, another 50mm.

Day 3 another 30mm.

 

 

 

 

The predicted strong winds however did not eventuate. 90km/hr had been forecast but gusts only reached 70km/hr. We were obviously worried that some of the trees remaining around us would not be able to ‘hang on’ in the super saturated soil.

 So that makes a total of 550mm (22inches) in the last few weeks which is half our average annual rainfall.
The creek thankfully has once again retreated quickly but the ground is really soggy.
A check on flood damage revealed that none of the fence repairs done last week were substantially ‘undone’.

There is again flood debris buildup on some fences which has pushed posts over on quite an angle.

This will require debris removal (and burning) then post resetting and ramming. But this will have to wait until the soil dries out. Ramming mud around posts is a pretty useless exercise.

 

Other than that piles of flood debris, logs. branches litter the paddocks.

My spring tasks have been therefore predetermined well in advance.