01.11
We have had very stormy weather over the last few days and as I mentioned in my last post there has been loads of rain. We have also been having very high tides which is normal for this time of year, but they do seem to be getting higher every year which is a bit worrying as we live right next to the beach. On Friday afternoon I went down to the beach hoping to have a walk, but the tide was too high and it was also looking very stormy so I gave up the idea.
stormy afternoon
We were invited out to dinner with friends later in the evening and as we left home the rain was starting again and continued on and off, very heavy at times for the rest of the evening. We started to realize how bad it was when we reached the roundabout near our friends’ house and saw an abandoned car. The level of water on the roundabout was so high that the person hadn’t seen the drain in the centre and driven straight into it. We then drove onto the coastal road and there the flooding was really bad from a combination of the heavy rain and an extremely high tide. We have never seen it as bad as that before, the drains and verges on both sides of the road were completely submerged, so we had to crawl along very carefully. There were a number of abandoned cars along the road but luckily we were in a four wheel drive and going very cautiously, even so we felt that it was touch and go in some places.
the local hotel and supermarket car park under water.
I took the photo above with the camera on my phone so it’s not that good quality but gives an idea of what it was like. When we reached the road going to our house which is just off the main road I really thought we wouldn’t get through as that floods just with normal rainfall. We got through, fearing the worst for our house, but our house must be on slightly higher ground because when we got to the gate there were only a few inches of water and the area where we park the cars was quite dry so nothing had come into the house. It appears that the water had come through there though because the door mat had been washed away and all our shoes which we normally leave outside the door were nowhere to be seen. We went inside and grabbed a torch and then hunted round the garden for our shoes. We found them washed up in a corner and luckily none of them had been washed down the drain and out to see never to be seen again.
some of our shoes
knee deep in water, the path to the beach
our simpang (road) under water
Quilter Blogs & Store Search
Thank you Anne for your “report” ..I am living in a country where rain falls rarely…Most of time it’s really a problem for farmers and even to live in small villages during summer months.
Your photos show how such a tempest may be violent and sudden.
I read your blog from time to time, and I find much interest in reading it
Anne glad to hear you all are alright, I just read a news story on the internet of a ferry capsizing in Indonesia. It sounds like the storm was quite bad. Take care.
Karen
http://karensquilting.com/blog/
It is wet again today but no more flooding; the funny thing is, that if we hadn’t been out for dinner that night we wouldn’t have known anything about the floods until we read the papers the next day.
We are lucky here because Borneo is referred to as ‘the land below the wind’ so it is very rare that we get the really extreme conditions like typhoons. There have been very dry years too and that is worse because we then get terrible forest fires and haze, so I won’t complain about all the rain.