Chapter 36
The truck ground to a halt. Ric could barely see through the windscreen, even with the wipers on full. Somewhere beneath that swirling wall of water ahead of him lay the eastern irrigation channel. There’d be no getting out this way either, not even in a tractor.
‘Can we go home?’ asked Sophie.
Ric had spent the afternoon exploring alternative routes into town. This road had been their last option. It looked like he and Sophie were well and truly stranded.
Sophie tapped his arm. ‘Dad.’
‘Yeah. We can go home.’ He made a three-point turn, panicking when the back wheels sank into mud at the edge of the track. They spun uselessly for a minute before finding traction. It wouldn’t do to get bogged way out here. Donnalee was thirty miles away.
Ric crept back down the road, half-b
