Hosuehold, school caught in Bulli flood - Illawarra Mercury

By Angela Thompson

WITH his flood-ravaged street covered in mud and his driveway inundated, Byron Heap felt his stomach drop when he thought of Noodles, the family pet mouse, whose cage would have been directly in the path of the waters outside.

As he went to check on the creature, he began to imagine how he would explain Noodles's demise to his young son.

A watermark on the outside of the cage showed the tide had risen at least 20 centimetres - too high, he thought.

But there was Noodles; still inside and - somehow - still alive; a tiny survivor.

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