Floodwater ATE MY HAND

Kerrie Gordon, 58, Maryborough, Qld

Wow, that’s a lot›of rain, I thought, looking out of the window at home.

It was the day before Australia Day in 2013, and for the whole summer holidays, we’d barely had a drop.

Now, my daughters Isabella, then 11, and Kellie, seven, and son Maverick, nine, were looking forward to school and soccer practice starting up.

‘Hopefully the rain dies down by next week,’ I said to them as they watched a Disney movie in the