I scrapped some Flood photos

Dingee Floods

Dingee Floods

January of this year as we know was wet! Many areas of the Australian East Coast were hit by storms and torrential rains. Quite a few places recorded their annual rainfall for the year in a few days! Rains that many of us have never seen before but rains that have in the past been recorded. I don't know if anyone wasn't affected in some way, whether you knew someone in these areas, were in them yourself or were a volunteer helping in the recovery. These photos were taken from an area of central Victoria where I have a farm. My son lives in the house there and was confronted by flash flooding - having approximately 10 minutes to get the tractor and push a bank up round the house. We were lucky, he saved the house by doing this. The land suffered but that will return without too much drama - a bit of fence repairing, pasture resowing and stock recovery. Many of the neighbours were not so lucky, houses swamped, stock washed away and/or lost somewhere. There are some remarkable sights being seen during the flooding and some very quick thinking.

Materials used: WeR On the Dot papers, SNC, Twiddlybitz and Scrap FX chipboard. I have distressed the papers and photos, used staples to 'repair' the tears in the paper and inked the edges, covered a chip tag with paper and given it a rustic feel too. Some of the chipboards have just been inked, some Papier Glassed and the seagulls white embossed. Stickers have been used to show the year and also on the signpost to show the location.