Flooding and power cut
Yesterday was interesting... No we didn't get flooded, and we're very thankful for that. But we were without electricity for 27 hours. This is what happened...
After continuous heavy rain the Boggan, a stream which runs along under the pavement in the main road behind us, burst its banks behind the funeral directors' in Blackwells Street, resulting in deep water outside the Police HQ in Burn Place just behind our house. This picture shows the garden of the house behind us in the main road under water, and the main road itself looking like a full-sized river. If you click through to the largest size in Flickr you'll see it better.
The next picture shows people being evacuated from the houses immediately behind us by boat. They were using the wall as a wharf for disembarkation. The building in the background is the main council offices (formerly headquarters of the now defunct Ross and Cromarty County Council and later Ross and Cromarty District Council).
There are more photos of the flooding in my Flickr album
There is video of the flooding at the BBC and at Dave's YouTube .
We spent the evening sorting through and reorganising some newly-received boxes of books by candlelight (finishing this job this morning when we still had no electricity). We have a litle solid-fuel stove that gives out a lot of heat so we bought some coal and made a barrier around the stove with boxes of books etc to keep Abigail away.
The last photo is a bedtime one. Here is Abigail playing with a torch in our candlelit bedroom.
The electricity finally came back on at 2pm today so were able to get back to normal activities (like blogging - sad huh? - and sending books to customers - we had six diferent sacks to send out at 5:30 pm).
