wet, wet, wet.

This isn't one of those usual, I wish it would stop raining its been such a crap summer posts. In fact, right now the weather where I am is glorious. Except. I'm not at my house, we've been evacuated. With the river predicted to reach 10 metres, that means our house is going to get wet. Wet, wet,wet.
I spent most of yesterday pretending it wasn't happening. It was too annoying, too unfair and too unlikely. Everyone had said it wouldn't be as bad as the 2010 flood, and anyway, floods aren't meant to happen every 2 years, they happen every 20 years. In 2010, North Wagga got cut off and water inched up to the top of the levee banks, but it didn't make it over. All that moving, all that evacuation, it was all okay, not even a clean up needed. At 5pm yesterday, the SES realised it was going to be worse than 2010, and that means the levee could overflow.
We got most of our stuff out of our house in about 2 hours. Everyone was helping everyone else on our street. Two family friends rocked up to our house with their ute and burly son, and said "Hello we haven't seen you since you were a little little girl, what shall we move?". They took a lot of our stuff (including the smeg and piano!) up to their garage right on top of a hill. They just jumped in and did it, I was dithering and still telling myself, "Well we might have to evacuate but I'm sure the water won't come over, it'll be fine."
When we arrived at our (very new!) friends house in central Wagga at 10pm last night, I had a wave of panic. Crap. We should have gotten everything out. Stuff that was deemed not important and replacable has just been put up higher, but not 3 meters higher. It's okay. We are blessed in so many ways. We have beautiful friends to stay with - who even ave a super big and secure back yard for our Lola, we have insurance. We have each other. It's okay. It's just a freakin' bummer.
So, now we play the waiting game. Waiting for the river to peak, waiting for the water to subside, waiting to see what the damage is. Despite the annoying thing that we only just unpacked, we have so much less to loose. We only have a months worth of gardening to loose, only one rooms new paint job. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine. It's gonna be fine.

{Pictures filched off the SES facebook page for the Riverina. The second is of the dam which is overflowing.}