8–10 October 2010–Kenilworth Showgrounds

THE BIG STORM

“The rain storm started with a deluge at 3.00am on Friday 8th October and ended at 10.30pm on Monday 11th – just over three and a half days of continuous precipitation amounting to 454.6mm.

Total rainfall to date for October is 471.6mm. This is the highest maximum rainfall ever recorded at Maleny over the past 117 years. The average for the month is 102 mm.”

Extract taken from www.malenyweather.com  12/10/2010

I have never seen this amount of rain – anywhere!!  It started overnight the first night we spent in Kenilworth.  The creek through the showgrounds came up – and went down again – and then came up again!!  As we were the site closest to the creek I kept a really close eye on it, but it would have taken a huge amount to overflow the banks.  All in all it was a somewhat soggy weekend – but it was Bathurst weekend, so it didn’t really matter.