We’ve had high dramas at our place this week. The water main in our neighbour’s front yard burst sending rivers of water down into our place completely flooding our driveway and our garage (also known as our storeroom). It was not the best thing to wake up to in the morning I can tell you! But, we didn’t have time to really dwell on it…we had to start clearing the garage and try to get rid of all that water.
Rather than try to explain the scene to you, I thought you might like to see some photos. So here goes:
Photo #1: Welcome to our swimming pool….err, I mean our home. Perhaps we should move the car!
Photo #2: I know it’s fashionable to have a water feature or two in your garden, but these waterfalls aren’t quite what I had in mind.
Photo #3: Oh look! We’ve got our own personal river. Oh wait! Wasn’t that our side path?
As you can imagine, we have quite a mess to clean up now and we will be cleaning for days. But we are extremely thankful that nothing too valuable was lost…just some furniture and bits and bobs that can be replaced.
HOW HORRIBLE YOUR RIGHT YOU SURE DO HAVE A LOT OF WORK A HEAD OF YOU. I CAN REMEMBER WHEN THIS HAPPEN TO MY HUSBAND AND I,BUT IT WASN’T AS BAD AS YOU HAD.SORRY AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
looks almost like you need a canoe! Good luck with the cleanup… not a nice job!
wow that is a lot of water could you please send it our way as we still have fires here in Victoria
good luck with all the mopping up
maybe turn the car into a temporary boat?
Wow! What a mess. My prayers are with you and the only advice I have is — Get out the bathing suit and play! It’s kinda like if you can’t beat em join them! Blessings.
Angie
oh dear if only victoria could have some of that water good luck with your cleaning
Dear Jenny If only this could happen in our backyard,our brown lawn may even look green again. Good luck with your cleaning hope you did not loose to many things.Great chance to have a good clean out. Cheers Dianne in very dry Victoria
Hi Jenny, I certainly don’t envy the mess you have, but it would sure be nice if we could get
some rain over here in the central wheatbelt area in the west, it’s so dry we can’t even spit chips. Good luck with your clean-up.
Oh Jenny,
What a terrible mess to wake up to.. A pity you did not have an underground tank that you could have caught some of the water in… If only we had that amount to dampen our parched land down here in Vic..
I hope it subsided and there was not too much mess for you to clean up…
Cheers Lesley
I pray that all goes well with the flooding issues..robin
Hi Jenny, I can imagine how hard it was to clean all the mess that come’s with al the water. But you have to admit, the photo’s are a wonderfull object to scrap with. In a while you can laught about it.
really sorry for you and your family Jen. it happened to me but not that bad for sure. we had the kitchen flooded in water by my neighbour’s main pipe . hope every think goes well for
what a nightmare…thank God nothing too valuable was damaged…keep ur chin up x
aiyoh ! (that’s an asian version of Oh No !) what a terrible mess ! Hope everything clears up soon
Oh My Jen!! What a mess. I hope you didn’t loose anything in all that mess. Hope it all gets cleaned and back to normal soon. Does the neighbor have kids to help clean? lol
oh, my goodness…..what a shock!!
what can I say?
Water feature…???!!!!!
thinking of you all,
Blessings,
Gloria