Flash floods not the end of late-season downpours

SOUTHERN Grampians Shire workers begin the clean-up on Featherstonhaugh Road, Carapook, where a normally-trickling, several-metres-wide gully creek, turned into an avalanche of water, knocking out guard rails and safety signage. Photo: JAMES THOMPSON

By Kristy McDonald

October 26, 2022 | 2:00 PM

IT CAME down hard and fast and the news from the Bureau of Meteorology is the land will not be drying out in a hurry, after Friday’s deluge which caused flash-flooding across the region.

While the Casterton township received very little of Friday’s rain – just five millimetres in the 24 hours to 9am Saturday, neighbouring communities at Wando Vale, Carapook, Sandford, Clover Flat, Dunrobin and Strathdownie copped a beating.