Rising Damp.

So.........today it has mostly rained......non stop...... due to an East Coast Low which formed up near Fraser Island and then headed south.My weather app on my phone predicted 40 - 50 mm of rain today but it has already filled our rain gauge (140 mm) which I emptied and then it started to fill again.It seems that all the dams are full and they are talking of releasing water from them tonight.The garden here was saturated and about 3.30 pm this afternoon the downstairs here started to flood. We tried to block the back door with towels but it still came in and slowly crept across the floor meeting water that flowed through the foundations at the front of the house. it got to be about 2 inches deep in parts.Luckily, where we are in the Man Cave, most of our stuff is on an area of floor that is raised about four inches above the rest of the downstairs area so we have been spared a lot of mess.The rain eased and the water went down quite quickly, but a last fling torrent made it rise again suddenly.The worst seems to have passed now and the water is receding again.It never rains but it pours.