Deja-vu January

The cafe has been opened just over a week - and already there is a sense of deja-vu.  The cafe is closed due to the violent weather - rain and 60 kph winds, plus the release of 500 cubic metres a second from the Wivenhoe Dam.
As usual, Mt Crosby Road is underwater at Colleges Crossing - cutting off access to the Recreation Reserve.

The above pic is courtesy of our good friends at 94.9 Ipswich and their listeners.

This will be a big test for the Colleges Crossing Recreation Reserve which has only recently been rebuilt at a cost of $11m after the disastrous floods of 2011.
The cafe was just getting into the swing of things after two years in mothballs.

Now it has got to survive another hammering by Mother Nature - and so early in its rebirth.  Last night the river was over 8 metres at Mt Crosby.  There doesn't seem to be a river height monitor anymore at Colleges Crossing.

Yesterday (Saturday), the cafe was getting a solid soaking (pic below).  Due to the closed roads - it hasn't been possible to get access today (Sunday) to see how it is surviving the buffeting winds.

If there is one positive out of this extreme weather - it will green up the park which has been suffering badly from the recent 40 degree heat.  Remember that line about droughts and flooding rain.  We are living it currently at Colleges Crossing.

It's not known just how long the release from the Wivenhoe Dam will continue - but as soon as possible we will be back greeting our many supportive customers.