75mm the past 4 days..

Even when its mostly sunny over the past couple of days the nights still deliver the wet stuff...

We even try and use the vehicles as little as possible to minimise the damage to grass and driveway..

Bunyip we had a period like that back in 99 and 00 where the El Arish Post office meaured 6400 and 5900 back to back years ...it was not fun living in a unpowered caravan with no running water and a hand-dug longdrop toilet with a young baby on a creek flat that had just been cleared but windrows not burnt up and no drainage or road installed...I had to build the first road by multiple trailerloads of fill backed across the creek and raising a car width track 100m in to where we first lived.....i also dug by hand the trench for phone and power..we just couldnt even get a machine in to do anything and bogged a D6 dozer in the first month of owning the place which then needed a another dozer to be brought in to get the first one out...it was so wet the dozer that pushed up the windrows pushed as much mud into them as timber and i spent months on the chainsaw and tractor cutting up and pulling them apart out of the dirt and restacking to actually be able to burn the bloody stuff..mostly it was too wet to use the old tractor so i cut the logs and chucked them on top of the larger logs and stumps and used a crowbar to knock out the dirt between the roots on the upended stumps to get them to dry and burn...plenty of times logs were cut and stacked to get the tractor out of bogs too...

Needless to say i spent a very long time on a tractor with a back blade shaping and filling and draining the ground after living through that..now we have no surface water laying anywhere but with this constant wet the ground just remains saturated as it does everywhere..

It certainly was an eye-opening experience as a first time landowner and stay at home dad..and i actually loved every minute of it..

I would hate to just live in a house on a quarter acre block and dread the thought that I may ever have to retire to such a life..

and it certainly does make you wonder how we have become a society that cant even create a system in the wettest place in the country that doesnt have water shortages...that actually just boggles my mind...