[Glenda]

The kids school rang to say "pick them up". ?

I go out and find the roads so flooded that I'm praying I'll not break down. ?Then I find the road closed - water pouring from a creek over a bridge.

I go home. ?My neighbour says a friend of hers will pick up my kids and drive them to where the road is closed and they can walk home. ?Yay! ?What a relief! ?Then logic hits - you cannot drive or walk across the bridge - my kids would be stranded in the pouring rain at the other side.

After 30mins of trying I eventually get through to the school and they say they will keep them there ... possibly until tomorrow. ? [smiley=icon_cry.gif]

The driving instructor phones up to cancel Tom's lesson (surprise, surprise). ?He says he is trapped in town as so many roads are closed he can't get to his house. ?

A house to the left of us has a pump going to get the water out of it. ?Two doors on the right - unfortunately they do not have a pump. Fortunately for me the water runs under the house and down to the road. ?

One consolation - my neighbour says that in 17 years of living here it has never been this bad.

:(