Garage Flood

With everything happening around Australia with cyclones... this kind of seems fairly dismal in comparison. But about a month ago there was some heavy rain in Sydney and my garage got flooded. Unfortunately for me, my garage is located at the bottom of a slope and the drain in front of it was blocked with leaves and dirt, and thus overflowed into the garage filling it with water and looking like this:





AND just to be a pain, the garage was poorly designed and the floor slopes into the middle rather than towards the drain, so all the water was stuck in the middle :-
Since the garage was overloaded with stuff that I don't use I rarely visited the garage and thus we didn't discover this mess until a week after the rain had invaded the garage. This caused everything in the garage to go mouldy until we discovered it (GROSS!!!!). Normally having water in the garage isn't such a big deal, but since my sister is overseas, she has stored all her gear in my garage. So practically all of her stuff needed to be removed and cleaned or thrown out. Which looked a lot like this:



Leigh and I had an exhausting weekend pulling everything out of the garage and cleaning it and then packing it all back in. We got to spend some quality time together though....... along with mould and bleech :S But I think we did a better job packing everything back into the garage and got the opportunity to throw out a heap of stuff we didn't need.