It's Raining, It's Pouring, It's Flooding!

A Sunday drive up through the hills and in to Yarra Glen presented us with this lovely sight, unfortunately for race goers there will be no action at this track come Melbourne Cup day (Tuesday).



That is by no means a small fence for the Yarra Glen racecourse that the water is hiding!



And the road through to Healesville shut off due to flooding



On the last day of October Victoria experienced some 55mm in the city, whilst the Yarra Valley got around 80mm in less than 24hours causing streams, creeks and dams to burst their banks and spill out.
This rainfall was around half of the rainfall Victoria received for the month.

After taking a few detours we made it through.

Here is a picture taken last week of the creek, next to a photo from yesterday.




And a shot of the Healesville Racecourse, not quite as submerged as Yarra Glen, but impressive nonetheless