Rain Rain Go Away

By Hannah

We've been in Australia for almost three weeks and we've had a lot of rainy days. All of this rain has been collecting in rivers and creating deadly flash floods. People are collecting sand bags to protect their houses from water creeping in and many towns have been evacuated. Sadly for many houses there has not been time, leaving houses flooded and some have lost their lives.

Our travel plans have changed. The flooding has left the ocean waters too murky for snorkelling and in several places highways have closed and we have taken long detour routes. We went up to the mountains and there was a huge storm which we could see rolling in (see photo). At times we couldn't even see the road. Hail came and many cars had to pull over and wait under trees for huge, hard balls of ice to die down into rain drops again. As we came a waterfall that we had passed on the way up the mountain, no cars wanted to go by it. It has grown three times its original size and the colour changed from snow white to brown. Here is a photo of the car in front of us. You can see the water splashing down over the road. It was scary but we went through it.

I hope the flooding stops and everything can return to normal for Australians.