I regularly run along Merri Creek, a pleasant meandering waterway through country-like surroundings to the north of Melbourne. I also walk the dogs, they go crazy with all the rabbits. We took a walk on Thursday in between the incessant showers.
By Friday the rain was even heavier, the creek had risen, and an elderly woman from my parish was tragically drowned trying to cross it. There is a low footbridge - which has no handrail - connecting Fawkner on one side of the creek to Reservoir on the other. There's no way she would have drowned had there been a handrail. The water wasn't deep enough to sweep her away if she'd been holding onto something, she probably just took off her shoes in order not to get them wet and then lost her balance on the slippery wood.
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