Floods close to "home"

Usually we hear about bushfires at this time of year in Australia, but this time it is floods. Karen, a fellow Australian working in Cambodia, has just written a good post about the devastating floods in our home state. 

None of our family has had their homes inundated, but several of them have had difficulty getting home after visiting family or taking holidays at Christmas. My eight-month-pregnant sister was stuck in her small town without an obstetrician. In a small window of unflooded roads, she and her family made a mad dash through the night for the big smoke. Many of the roads that we travelled this time last year as we visited family for Christmas and New Year are currently cut off.

Home is indeed on our minds as we read daily reports of people losing all they own, cleaning sewage out of their homes and starting again.