As part of my current job doing school nutrition, I have to travel to three different community schools. One of the communities is on the other side of the island so I have to drive 45 minutes, 2 days a week to get there. That might seem like a long time to some people, but for remote Australia, it’s not even a quick drive to the supermarket! (I once lived in a place where we had to make a weekend of it and drive 4 hours to do our shopping…)
Unfortunately, Mother Nature wasn’t very agreeable today. For the past two nights, it has rained almost non-stop. Generally, the road out there is pretty good, they have bridges over most of the creeks. There is only one spot that doesn’t have a bridge, instead there is a floodway. So – understandably – whenever it rains, that area floods! They have one of those depth indicators and it was over the 1 metre mark this morning. Several cars were backed up on either side and no one was game enough to give it a go. At one point, a 4×4 car with a snorkel tried, but he only got a third of the way over before he decided to reverse out the way he came! The only one who got through was a large truck because he had the height and weight to make it. The water only just reached over his tyres whereas it would have reached my car’s windscreens!
I’m supposed to go out there again tomorrow, so we’ll see if I can make it through without floating away down the river! 😉