Very Wet

For the last few days, both Steph and I have been working from home. On Wednesday we drove into town (in the honda civic), and several times on the way, we thought "hmm, it's pretty wet, hopefully the roads are open". The roads were open, although several times we encountered police making sure that drivers noticed the big puddles on the road. Once we got into work, we started keeping an eye on the river levels, and it started getting higher and higher, at which point I phoned our local council and found out that things were worse over here, so we both decided that heading home was the best thing. Three hours and a very long route home as we wanted to avoid certain roads, turned out to be the right thing as there were some huge puddles/fordings that I would not have been happy crossing at around 10pm at night.
On Thursday morning, I checked the river levels and the weather warnings, at which point we went back to bed, and then spent the day working from home with the occasional rescue of sheep, fixing drainage issues with Tom on the neighbours place, and making sure all the animals had enough hay to keep them warm.
This morning though, we got up, decided the Safari was the best bet, and started driving to the train station. At the top of our road, we found several big slips, and by the time we got to the other end (all 6Kms away) we discovered that the road there was closed...So we turned around and now working from home.
Around 10am, the clouds parted and blue sky was visible, now (1pm), it's sunny and warm and another weekend is near.