How deep was it?

Whenever I've talked to people about our flooding, the obvious question they ask is "how deep was it?". I can tell them it was six foot, and we have a lot of pictures of the city under water to demonstrate it, but it's still hard to visualise exactly how it feels to have so much water in your house.

We managed to take a few pictures inside the house during the flood, I already posted up a few in an earlier post. We finally got around to scanning some more and brightening up the darker areas, so I'm posting them here for all to see.

The first picture is the only clear one. I don't remember the timings exactly, but I think this is probably after about 1 hour.

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The second and third pictures just show the progression of the water level. Unfortunately the flash caught a couple of stairs in the foreground and these had to be heavily brightened.

Finally, a picture of me by the same doorway, taken today. As you can see, our house is being torn apart for renovation.