10yrs Katherine Floods
Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:21 am
Well fairdinkum, it's 10 years since the Katherine floods (the big one) What a exciting time in my life lots of water to fish
I was one of the luckier ones. I didn't own a house and was staying in a mates caravan and only lost some clothes, my fishing gear and a stereo. Not like some others that lost the lot
The night before a heap of my mates went to my parents house that was out of town (16kms) and had a BBQ and a huge p..s up It rained that hard that we were all running and sliding on the grass with shirts off
The next day, after no sleep from the boozing we could not get back to town due to all the creeks up All the radio stations were talking about Katherine flooding and that night "horror movie right there on my tv" the news showed Woolies with 3+M of water through it
For the next 4 days my mates and me proceeded to eat my parents out of the house along with drinking all of the booze they had collected over the years, you know all the wines, port, rum and scotch bottles that sit on shelves like paintings for years
When we got to town it was a huge mess and the Army and all the volenteers did a great job cleaning up The irony was that what we really needed was some more rain to wash the place up
Back to work I went and helped clean up there
So 10yrs on the town goes on and I only hope it gets stronger and better with lots of rain but not the floods
I was one of the luckier ones. I didn't own a house and was staying in a mates caravan and only lost some clothes, my fishing gear and a stereo. Not like some others that lost the lot
The night before a heap of my mates went to my parents house that was out of town (16kms) and had a BBQ and a huge p..s up It rained that hard that we were all running and sliding on the grass with shirts off
The next day, after no sleep from the boozing we could not get back to town due to all the creeks up All the radio stations were talking about Katherine flooding and that night "horror movie right there on my tv" the news showed Woolies with 3+M of water through it
For the next 4 days my mates and me proceeded to eat my parents out of the house along with drinking all of the booze they had collected over the years, you know all the wines, port, rum and scotch bottles that sit on shelves like paintings for years
When we got to town it was a huge mess and the Army and all the volenteers did a great job cleaning up The irony was that what we really needed was some more rain to wash the place up
Back to work I went and helped clean up there
So 10yrs on the town goes on and I only hope it gets stronger and better with lots of rain but not the floods