Weather bomb

 Levi with his new Play Doh

 After being outside

 Our road, well over

 Rain!

Today Brisbane got hit by what they are calling a 'Weather Bomb'.  It feels like that!  We got 124 mm just between 9pm last night and 6am.  In the two hours after that we got another 15mm.  It has rained incredibly hard all day with a few little moments of quieter rain.  The river rose and then fell slightly, but the rain has picked up again, so I doubt that tomorrow will be much better.  I worked from home.  I can access our server from our house and frankly at the moment, it gives me a faster connection and more peace and quiet.  Not that I am not the instigator of most of the rumpus at work.

Levi and I made Play Doh and he played beside me at a table much of the day with a rolling pin and knife and cookie cutters.  He had the TV on and very little to do.  I think that it won't hurt him to have a few quiet days.  The school would have been very quiet.  Many houses in Samford get cut off on these days.  Our causeway generally goes first, but this rain was cutting off roads that rarely get cut.  My work at Strathpine was also flooded out, so there was no stress about not getting to work. 

Jack was due to fly out today.  He got very stressed and tried all sorts of different options to get out.  I had worked out about 8.30am that there wasn't a chance on earth that any of us were going out safely.  Eventually after trying several different ideas, including chartering a helicopter to get him out, he relaxed and is now back upstairs waiting out the storm.