Flood

It's raining outside. It was raining outside when we wrote the blog last week as well. Just after we finished the electricity went off. It didn't come back on until 17 hours later!

It was later on Monday evening that we got a couple of calls from friends asking if we were ok. We decided it was time we looked at the news and found that there has been some severe flooding about 5 minutes down the road from us.

I don't think we have ever been this close to such flooding before. A sewage pipe burst and many people have lost varying amounts of their possessions. We do have friends who live there but thankfully they weren't the hardest hit. We have heard some sad stories of people who had to swim out of their houses and over roofs to get to safety.

As we pray for those affected we give thanks for all the effort, local and international, to try and help these people. We are also so grateful once again for our protection.

We're not sure why we have all this rain. It's pretty cold and quite overcast a lot of the time which is unusual for here but perhaps it is a good way of breaking us into the weather we are about to travel to in a few short weeks!

Here are some photos from the flooding...