Flood

For anyone who doesn't live in QLD, you may not be aware that we have had rain almost every day since Christmas. Infact, today is the first day in two weeks we have actually seen the sun for more than 10 minutes. The other night was a very hairy trip home from work, with the 4 fords underwater, which was bad enough.
The last ford actually crosses a creek, which feeds from higher up in the mountains on the property before hitting our part of the farm. The creek is not even usually running. There is a part near our house where they have created a spillway to divert the creek possibly flooding the house, and we have never heard any water in it before.
Over the last few days we have heard the rushing water in the spillway from inside the house - a good 50-70 metres away. This is the creek that we have to cross to get home from work. It was dark (really dark), it was raining (really hard and wetly), I gingerly crept the car into the gully and saw the water shimmering over the road, rushing across the road and at that time I could still see the concrete under the water and deemed it safe to cross. Which was fine.
The I got home and heard the rushing water in the spillway, from inside the house it sounds like pounding, but also like whispers, with all the rain all of the place at the moment everything drips and whispers water. It is very freaky to get home to an isolated dark farmhouse in the rain to think that you can hear people whispering outside the house.
Anyway, Kitty told me I was being mental and to snap out of it because she was hungry.