It’s not too late to join this Group Writing Project - Closes August 15, 2007

The Dilemma: What Do You Do When You’re Caught Between Two Rising Rivers With Nowhere to Go?

We were caught in our car between two raging rivers. It had been a great trip to Australia’s Northern Territory, until the storms hit. This is a region in outback Australia, that is usually parched and dry. We were traveling between Alice Springs and Mount Isa, a journey of about 1000 miles which we’d done many times. It should have been straightforward. This time was different.

Raging, unrelenting storms hammered the red earth for days. And then, as if to tease, they eased off. We spread our damp clothes on the road to dry in the few spots of sunshine whenever the storm abated, but then the rain would start again. The river we’d crossed many miles back, and which had been just a gentle stream, was now impassable. The river in front of us was racing wildly, and too dangerous to cross in our car, lest we be swept downstream. Both rivers were rising rapidly with us in the path of a flood.

There were other travelers trapped too, and we were close to an outback hotel. We heard that the night before the supervisor of a road gang also trapped between the two rivers, had been killed by one of his workers. As you can imagine, we weren’t sleeping too well at all in the front of our pick up truck, and not just because of the cramped space or the rain.

This was well before the days of cell phones and ready internet access. We heard on the radio, that food drops were being made by airplane, but no one seemed to know we were there.

Read How I Got Out in One Piece… Sort Of

Read how we got out of there in the second post of the Shared Answers Group Writing Project, hosted by Grow Your Writing Business and Writing Thoughts. I’ll post this in the next couple of days.

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