Pictures: Deluge wreaks havoc across Adelaide

AMAZING images of the widspread havoc caused by heavy rains across Adelaide, with roads closed, properties damaged, and rivers and creeks overflowing.

1/59Montacute Road Athelstone has been washed away after Wednesday night’s rains. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

2/59The destroyed footbridge that crosses the Onkaparinga River, near Paringa Parade, Old Noarlunga. Picture: Stephen Laffer

3/59The destroyed footbridge that crosses the Onkaparinga River, near Paringa Parade, Old Noarlunga. Picture: Stephen Laffer

4/59A motorist drives through floodwaters on Paringa Parade, Old Noarlunga at 8am on Thursday. Picture: Stephen Laffer

5/59Kate Jeffery with Ruben, 2, in front of their house at Hope St Encounter Bay. Picture: Greg Higgs

A soggy koala found the perfect vantage point to scope out a safe spot away from floodwaters in Stirling on Wednesday.Crafers resident Russell Latter captured a photograph of the furry marsupial as it perched itself on top of a fence post on Old Carey Gully Rd.

6/59A soggy koala found the perfect vantage point to scope out a safe spot away from floodwaters in Stirling on Wednesday.
Crafers resident Russell Latter captured a photograph of the furry marsupial as it perched itself on top of a fence post on Old Carey Gully Rd.

7/59School Children being evacuated by a digger after being stranded at Rapid Bay. Picture: Gary Juleff

8/59Daniel Mynhart and Stan Damant surrounded by flood waters at their homes on Devon St, Goodwood. Picture: Campbell Brodie

9/59A flooded home on Kensington Rd, Toorak Gardens. The colour is reflections from an emergency services vehicle. Picture: Campbell Brodie

10/59Kath Arbon watches the creek take over her backyard and start to flow into her house at Hahndorf. Picture: Mark Brake

Chris Mackinnon in front of her home at Paringa Parade, Old Noarlunga. The marks on the window show how high the water rose. Picture: Stephen Laffer

11/59Chris Mackinnon in front of her home at Paringa Parade, Old Noarlunga. The marks on the window show how high the water rose. Picture: Stephen Laffer

12/59Sarah McGrady-Cole 18 of Morphett Vale with her grandma’s flood-damaged car at Paringa Parade in Old Noarlunga. Picture: Stephen Laffer

13/59A flooded Hope Street, Encounter Bay. Picture: Luke Harding

Waterfall Gully road residents allowed back to their homes and reunited with those trapped overnight due to flooding from heavy rains. David Ingleton surveys the damage to his shed from the Waterfall Gully creek bursting its banks from the Chambers Gully entrance. Picture: Mark Brake

14/59Waterfall Gully road residents allowed back to their homes and reunited with those trapped overnight due to flooding from heavy rains. David Ingleton surveys the damage to his shed from the Waterfall Gully creek bursting its banks from the Chambers Gully entrance. Picture: Mark Brake

15/59SES crew at a house in Crafers after a tree fell. Picture: Mark Brake

16/59A landslide on Fernhurst Road, Cherryville, blocking the road. Picture: Roger Wyman

17/59The Onkaparinga River at Old Noarlunga near Market Square. Picture: Stephen Laffer

18/59Rebecca Perry from Crafers with a huge tree that fell on her house due to heavy rain. Picture: Mark Brake

19/59The flooded Onkaparinga River, at Old Noarlunga, near Paringa Parade, just after 8:30am on Thursday. Picture: Stephen Laffer

20/59Kylie Kennewell from Aldgate photographs the flooded Bridgewater Oval after the banks of the creek burst. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

21/59Friends Chris Lodge and Will Edlington at the flooded Bridgewater Oval. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

22/59Aldgate is flooded as the banks of the creek burst. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

23/59Bridgewater Oval is flooded as the banks of the creek burst. Pic: Tricia Watkinson

24/59Zac Heam bodyboards in the floodwater on Bridgewater Oval. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

25/59Flooded street in Aldgate. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

26/59Power lines pulled down by a fallen tree next to a school in West Croydon. Picture: Mitch Mott

Homes are cut off after the river from the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir broke its banks, causing flooding at Gorge Rd, Camstabul. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

27/59Homes are cut off after the river from the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir broke its banks, causing flooding at Gorge Rd, Camstabul. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

28/59Homes cut off after the river from the Kangaroo Creek Reservoir broke its banks. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

29/59Flooding at Gorge Rd, Camstabul. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

30/59A truck ploughs through water on the main road just out of Handorf.

31/59A car is blocked from the driveway of a house at Gorge Rd, Camstabul. Picture: Bianca De Marchi

32/59Phil Webb’s place at Fell Street Encounter Bay is surounded by water. Picture: Greg Higgs

33/59Flooding at Tabernacle Road Encounter Bay. Picture: Greg Higgs

34/59A flooded Tabernacle Cemetery, Encounter Bay. Picture: Greg Higgs

35/59Tabernacle Cemetery, Encounter Bay. Picture: Greg Higgs

36/59Flooding at Bridgewater Oval. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

An Australia Post scooter navigates its way across Mt Barker Rd after the Onkaparinga River burst its banks. It was closed soon after. Picture: Mark Brake

37/59An Australia Post scooter navigates its way across Mt Barker Rd after the Onkaparinga River burst its banks. It was closed soon after. Picture: Mark Brake

38/59The Onkaparinga river bursts its banks and starts to flood property in Hahndorf. Picture: Mark Brake

39/59The Onkaparinga river bursts its banks and starts to flood property in Hahndorf. Picture: Mark Brake

40/59Hope Street and Fell, Encounter Bay. Picture: Gary Juleff

41/59SES Metro South volunteer George Boxhall carries sandbags at a flooded home on Fife Avenue, Torrens Park. Picture: Campbell Brodie

42/59Local councilor Andrew Tilly helps sandbag a house on Fife Avenue, Torrens Park. Picture: Campbell Brodie

43/59A homeowner sandbagging his house with local councilor Andrew Tilly lending a hand. Picture: Campbell Brodie

Aldgate RSL is flooded as the banks of the creek burst. - past president and RSL life member Jeff Barrett watches as the water flows in. Picture: Tricia Watkinson

44/59Aldgate RSL is flooded as the banks of the creek burst. - past president and RSL life member Jeff Barrett watches as the water flows in. Picture: Tricia Watkinson