Still Cleaning Up After The Storms

In Tuggeranong, a relative had their house badly affected. Rain came into the roof and dripped from the ceiling. Buckets were strategically placed to catch the drops.


Later in the day, the roof was supposedly safe, the lower level of the electricity was working "safely", but the ceiling lights were declared unsafe. Their were too many calls for SES help, to have an inspection carried out in the afternoon.

At our own place, the garage is slowly drying out, the carpets are now outside in the sunshine, and are beginning to dry. It's amazing how heavy a carpet can get when it is waterlogged. I'm sure when I first got them, they were easy to carry. But, when waterlogged, they could only be dragged outside.

I was puffing and panting to try and load them into the wheelbarrow, to make it easier to move them. It doesn't help that the pump up tyre is slightly (or more) deflated.

After a couple of days in the sun (fingers crossed) they may be dry enough to move back under shelter, when they are a lot drier.

And, some of the garden soil has been washed into areas we didn't want to plant vegies in. However, the grass was cut on Thursday afternoon by the mower, so the place looks tidier than it feels.