Cuppachino Anyone??

Yesterday Ned begged us to take him to the beach in gale force winds & rain that stung you when it hit you - and we did!! He just needed to run off some energy from being stuck inside for days. It was amazing - the whole of the beach was covered in 'cuppachino' foam and the wind would whip it up into the air like it was snowing. We had a blast playing in it.....

Ummm don't put your kid in a poncho style raincoat in major winds - it does nothing at all to keep them dry!!!!

You can't tell by the photos but this is actuall blowing up the beach in the wind.

A pretty angry looking ocean - there were some major waves happening.

We're bored!

What else do you do in boring wet weather - make a felt birdy of course!! Well i do anyway. I thought I might make some for Neds school fundraisering Mothers Day Stall and put some lavender inside to make them a smelly cupboard hanger. It's very cute.....

Gals I am running late again with this challenge but heres week 2 & 3.....Week 2 art journal challenge word 'feel'.

Week 3 challenge word - 'connect'. This page is done on clear plastic so it doesn't show up on the photo well but I used the quote "We are all connected to everyone & everything in the universe. Therefore , everything one does as an individual affects the whole. All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings & deeds are listened to by all that is".

Valentine.

This is what I came home to on V day - we don't usually celebrate Valentines but I'm open to any reason for a beautiful bunch of flowers!! Thanks Al!

(Kel - didn't get any gyp in there!!!!)

Wet Weather Update

A couple more photos from yesterday & today.................

This is our street at lunch yesterday - got knee deep for awhile there.

You can see how steep we are up off the road - would take a full biblical flood before we were affected!!!!

The end of mum & dad's street once the water subsided - the Andergrove Caravan Park & sports fields are under that water somewhere. In the peak of the floods this street was blocked by trucks to stop people driving up it as the bow wave they created was sending waves into peoples houses. As you can see this street is quite high off the road.

Mum & Dads backyard - it was so dark yesterday just to add to the eerieness of it all.

We went to assess the damage at Palmview where Al paints, the house he is working on only had a bit of water go through but most of the others weren't so lucky. Al spoke to Mauri last night & he said when it started coming in the doors he went to leave & walked straight into waist deep water on the street. He had to swim out of Palmview & it took him two hours to walk/swim home - he reckons 4wd's were floating past him!! When we were out this morning we saw quite a few abandoned cars and some still on the road facing the wrong direction.

Every house we drove by had piles of wet carpet out the front all up & down the street so we are expecting lots of insurance work in the near future.

I used this photo in yesterdays post but we realised while we were out that this is Tony the Plumbers sea container that has floated from Palmview down the Gooseponds across a bridge and is resting on a walkway!! It is full of stuff & extremely heavy so you can get a picture of how fast & furious the flooding was.

We be wet!!

Well as you all know we have been poured upon - Mackay was labelled as a state of emergency earlier today. We have had 625mm in 3 hours this morning and it's still raining but not as heavily. There have been reports on the radio of couches & cupboards floating down the streets, cars have floated away & there was a report of a crocodile swimming up Bridge Rd!!! We have since heard warnings of crocs being in residential streets! Mum & Dad have a dog that lives across the road who comes over to their house for a bikkie every day & today she swum across!! We have no contact with Jo or Wayne - they are completely cut off and have no phone contact, bad timing as they were meant to fly out to the Cook Islands tomorrow for 10 days. We are very lucky that we are on quite a high hill but our street got knee deep earlier today when it was just too much for the drains to cope with. We have been without power or phones for most of the day but we now have power running from one extension lead - I have stuck a double adapter in so I can blog and have the fridge running at the same time!!! I've got priorities you know!! Anyway below are some photos that I've had emailed to me.................My girlfriend Lisa's street.
Hospital bridge under there somewhere.

Cars usually park under this tree.

Mudslide on Mackay Bucasia Road

The large section of red roofs in the middle of this picture is Palmview Village where we do 90% of our painting - apparently it is heavily flooded. One of Al's workers went there this morning to do a bit (dedicated I know!!) and had to leave his car there and walk home through the floodwaters!! I reckon there will be a few repaints there!!