Oh the carnage

We were supposed to get a cyclone but it never came. The last cyclone that never came, over Christmas, gave us beautiful weather. This non-cyclone gave us 2 days of torrential rain and some very high winds. In the grand scheme of things this wasn't really such a bad storm but it left behind some grief in it's wake.

We personally came through unscathed and are thankful for it. 

The toll in the back yard is a different story

1. 12 fish dead, 1 unaccounted for. Probably got caught up in the roots of the water plant that we had to rescue out of the pot because the winds had shifted it and were threatening to break it to bits. They theory is that the rain is acidic and the fish were affected by the change in PH.
2. Unknown number of tadpoles dead, although I'm not sure if it was the storm or some food we put in there made the water acidic as well. After a while the water tends to smell acidic.
3. 2 displaced plants, we had to rescue the water plants.

Last night the tide was higher than normal combined with the storm the waves were washing over the parks path and onto the road. That was happening about 100meters down the road from us. The road had about 3 inches of water on it. But after the tide had peaked the water disappeared. 

It was pretty windy last night and this is what we woke up to this morning.

 We've pretty much got it cleaned up.

Last night we went for a drive and down by the Nightcliff cliffs this is what we saw.

Yup surfers, in Darwin the water when it's calm is the most dangerous. But when the water is rough it's the safest in regards to stinging Jelly fish and crocs. I didn't know we had so many surfers in Darwin.

L and I went out for a drive and this is how the palms looked.

 

Here is the Nightcliff Jetty, it looks pretty rough and to think only 100meters up the road are the surfers.

Hopefully this is the last we've seen of bad weather for this year, although the wet season has really just started.