Water water everywhere

Sometimes circumstances render stuff like this blog fairly irrelevant in the big picture of life and death, but a commitment is a commitment so I'll press on. The last two days have been a little stressful for everyone here is Brisbane. Early Tuesday when it was raining about 80mm an hour in the Gap we were concerned that the floods would gobble up properties in our street. Fortunately the rain subsided and we came to realize our little creek was not really tidal and only floods when the rain doesn't stop, so that worry was gone.

One neighbour wasn't so lucky however. The creek did rise and become a raging torrent for about 8 hours washing away the council retaining wall and tons of soil that was holding his 75000ltr pool in position. The neighbourhood lept into action yesterday and today with 6 men including yours truly carrying and positioning over six hundred sandbags up the washed away bank in a desperate attempt to stop his pool falling into the creek. I'm glad to say the immediate danger of that occurring has passed but with major rain events predicted for the end of the month we may have only delayed the damage.

With all that physical labour I felt any extra exercise was superfluous so I enjoyed couch time in between the work. I've also been pretty good with my diet now for nearly two weeks. I have also managed to avoid hopping back on the scales and can only hope for a good result on the scales on Saturday.

I'm beginning to think I'm winning the craving battles. I have only had one can of coke in ten days which, for anyone that knows me well, knows that is an achievement. So its more of the same for the next few days and then hopefully a good result.

Next week will be something different as I'm working at the Courier Mail for the week. I can imagine I'll be running around a bit doing post flood stories so I'll have to avoid the temptation to eat on the run. It'll be a good test run for a normal week rather than staying home alot during the Uni break.

Anyway, it's back to the round the clock flood coverage in anticipation of the 4am peak.

Let's hope for the best and a swift clean up operation and here's a coupke of pics from our neighbourhood working bee.

Bye for now