So I am having a beer in Richmond at my favourite watering hole The Richmond Club Hotel after a week of Crikey. I love having a beer on a Friday with my mates, and we were at the RCH to have a few cold ales for my good mate Boundi’s birthday.
I live in Richmond, have done for years, and, out of nowhere, while enjoying my first pint — a flash flood! Nothing like I have seen before. How ’bout that weather hey?
Now what I just experienced was a microcosm of what Queenslanders have been through over the past month. But what it does demonstrate is the pure awesomeness of mother nature.
The rain was strong, strong enough to have water pouring through the roof of the first floor of the RCH (the pub burnt down a couple of years ago and the second floor is being rebuilt). All of a sudden Swan St — the hub of Richmond — is flooded! Swan St became a river.
Now I am back at home — my house isn’t flooded but the sheer amount of rain has the gutters overflowing and causing my front and back “yards” (they are tiny) to resemble small ponds.
So I am off to have a beer. Somewhere dry with Boundi. Cheers for the photos Moose (I’ll get the first round when I see you).
Unfortunately, this was my last beer as the water rendered the pub useless.
Good fishing year round at the corner of Lennox and Swan.
Nature's barrier between me and beer...
That is, when he wasn’t also appearing on the front cover of Fairfax publications.
