Yay for flooding

Lake Placid Retention Basin Via Krimzon.net

Well, it has been an interesting morning already. I was awake at 4:30 becasue the frogs were croaking so loud they woke me up. An interesting way to wake up to say the least... After doing all the normal morning routine I started into work; it was about 7am, so I thought the roads would be fairly clear and it would be a nice (albeit wet) drive in. Yeah... no. Turns out the the frogs were croaking due to the exorbinate amount of rain we were having. I drove down Reservior Road to the first set of traffic lights, and on seeing the traffic banked up through them I thought I would go through one of the streets parallel to Murry Street to avoid the traffic. There was a wee little bit of water on the road (It turns out my car can swim!) and I did get abused spoken to by an SES person for driving through the road when it was flooded. In my defence, they had only closed one end of the road, so how was I supposed to know the entire road was closed when the other end was open to traffic?

Corner of birch and mccormack streets Via Krimzon.net

Anyway, no major dramas, and I saw no accidents on my way in. There was a lot of water on Anderson Street as well, probably about 25cm in some areas (near Brothers). Check the Cairns Regional Council site for Road Closures