5th June 2016 storm – One Year On

It’s hard to believe that it was one year ago today (In fact June 5 last year was a Sunday) that we had a massive dump of water in the Macarthur area.

I know we had a lot then but I had to see for myself how much so I checked out the Bureau of Meteorology archive pages. On June 56, 141mm of rain was recorded, with 139.8 mm the following day!

Some areas copped a lot more than  we did, one of them being Picton. I don’t think Picton has fully recovered, and there is a great article in the Wollondily Advertiser today.

Below are some pictures I took on the day around Mount Annan after I went to help a friend that had been affected by the rain.

This one is of the walkway in Birriwa Reserve that goes under Waterworth Dr (the cricket nets are on the far left)

Below is a shot of the same walkway a week later!

Here is Welling drive pointing down towards Wandarrah Reserve.

And here below, look at how high the water is at The Cascades

Finally, here is a shot of Camden bridge underwater, which was taken a day later on June 6: