Don’t worry. We haven’t been washed away.
Remember how I said the road will be covered by lunchtime? It was:
By dinnertime the water was through our gate:
It reached a high point around 10PM Tuesday night, still a few inches below the bottom row of post boxes (2010 had the two bottom rows underwader, so the level was a good half-meter below the worst flood we’ve experienced here).
By the time we woke up yesterday morning the water had already begun to recede, but the view at the weir downstream was still impressive:
Measuring by how much of the tree trunks are below the waterline, I estimate the water was flowing about a meter deep over the weir. That’s a LOT of water, people!
By lunchtime yesterday, we could see the road again…well, the mud covering the road, at least. And late afternoon we had a visitor taking advantage of the temporary wetlands with an abundance of forcibly relocated crabs and frogs.
This morning the river is safely back in its channel, and all that remains is lots of mud riddled with the little scratches of crabs that woke up to find they’re not in the water any more, and that there are predators about.
As stressful as it is to see the water rising, I’m glad I got to experience this one last time before we leave. It is humbling and inspiring to see the power of nature unleashed in this way.
if all else fails...use a hammer 
Wowww! And I thought Harare was getting all the heavy rain 🙂
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You’re closer to the Mozambique channel, so I’m sure you’re getting more, but then your average rainfall is also higher than ours. This is way above average for us.
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Still…yikes!
Not living in the wettest area of the world I did have to go look up what a “weir” was. Thank you for furthering my education. 🙂
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Haha! My pleasure! And it’s raining again today. There goes my hope of reclaiming my parking space this afternoon – too much mud on the road.
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Sjoe dis baie water
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Glad y’all made it through safely! Water is so powerful.
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It is. Luckily our building is positioned in such a way that we’re not actually in the stream – the river would have to rise by several meters for that to change. That did happen once, in ’81, but that was due to dams breaking upstream, and poor engineering of a bridge downstream causing an impromptu dam just where the river runs through town.
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Omg! Take care! … Mother Nature strikes again.
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It’s pretty much over by now, but thanks 🙂
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Very glad you’re safe! That is a whole lot of water.
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It is. But seeing as we’re coming out of a three year drought where the river was almost completely dry at this time last year, it’s welcome.
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