harm. If this 'flat flooding', as it can be called, is bad you may have a lot of native hangers on for the night, including lizards and snakes and probably the odd cow or two. Try to treat them all with consideration. They don't like it much either. At the opposite extreme is the dust storm. These can be expected in drought years but can also be quite localised in even good years (after heavy broadacre ploughing, for instance). Stop the vehicle and sit it out. Visibility can be poor to hopeless. Besides which there can be large drifts across the roadway which make driving impossible. Right in the interior a speciality known as bulldust will become known to you. This is as fine as any face powder. Not only does it blind you as it rises and seeps through the vehicle, but like sand it can completely obscure any potholes in the road surface. It should be tackled very slowly and cautiously. This way if you hit a deep pothole you are unlikely to damage your car. To end on a wet note, boggy roads also require caution and low speeds. If your vehicle does get stuck the only way
When a vehicle is bogged,jack up each driving wheel in turn and lay a bed of scrub material underneath them. It might be necessary to do this with allfour wheels. d