We have just spent the last ten days cleaning up after heavy rains caused flash flooding . We received 435 mm in a 12 hour period, and the river next to the house burst its banks and then a 2 metre wave flowed down the creek at a hundred miles an hour and straight through the house and garden area.
The nursery was a disaster. The flood carried away more than 2000 plants in pots in the nursery, and deposited silt in thick layers around the house. In some places the silt was more than a foot deep, and pot plants were buried. Using a small spade to dig them out, we actually did recover some of the precious grafted stock that I had been working on over the last few months.
Empty pots are strewn along the creek bank below the nursery, and they are even washing up on the beach which is more than a kilometer away.
Here are some photos to give you an idea:
