Wood St flooding worries resident

The house is raised, but Ms Goodall is worried what damage has been done, saying water was also flowing under her home.

‘‘I first noticed the flooding at 5am this morning,’’ she told the Pastoral Times yesterday.

‘‘I went out the back and noticed my rubbish bin was tipped over, so I went down three steps to pick it up and ended up in about half a foot (about 15cm) of water.

‘‘Then I turned back and turned the lights on and that is when I realised  that I was totally flooded.’’

When the Pastoral Times visited her home, the water had reached her front step.

The only way to get there was to walk through water that was above ankle height.

‘‘I am waiting for the council to come and do something and the SES have been here and said there isn’t much they can do,’’ she said.

‘‘I have had a couple of little floods over the four years I have been living here, but nothing this bad; I’m trapped.

‘‘I have complained to council on more than one occasion that the water does not get away from the bottom of the road and all they have said is ‘oh dear’. I have also had three different plumbers in and none of them has been able to tell me why the water doesn’t get away.’’

Ms Goodall said the kerbside roadworks being completed in the street have made the situation ‘‘a lot worse’’.

Council had blocked the road to Ms Goodall’s block in Wood St by 10am yesterday.

‘‘I am happy we got the rain, I hope it helps the farmers, but I am not at all happy about having so much water here,’’ she said.

‘‘The damage to my home will depend on what is happening out the back where the water is going under my house; that is worrying me.

‘‘But there is not much I can do really is there? I’m just going to have to stay here.’’

Ms Goodall said she there was 95mm in her rain gauge by 9am yesterday with the Bureau of Meteorology recording 82.8mm at the airport between 9am Wednesday and 9am Thursday.