What the Difference a Weekend Makes

Over the Australia Day long weekend (26-28 Jan 13) we went from being in drought to massive floods.  Ex tropical cyclone “Oswald” dumped 722mm (about 28 inches) of rain on Em Nau farm .

We went from having an empty dam and half full tanks to massive overflows from all storage areas.  A week or so before the long weekend we had the bottom dam cleaned out of the silt and mud, so it went from being empty to full (and overflowing) in the space of 24 hours...