Gibb River/ Kalumburu Road update info

Hi all,
I see people are talking about the roads and the water levels etc so thought some may be interested in up to date info.
If it doesn't rain any more the GR road is expected to be open by mid April. MRD predicting about 12 th April at present. They are grading from both ends now and were almost to the Pentacost from the Kununurra end 2 days ago.
If it doesn't rain anymore the water crossings on the GR road will be low as they are already quite low now. The GR road is closed due to the cyclone damage to road round ELQ and Home Valley not due to depth of water. Except for the over 400 mm in one day that the ELQ area got, in general in a lot of the Kimberely it has had a small wet season.
The Mitchell plateau missed most of the heavy rain from the cyclone but quite a lot fell around the King Edward crossing, nothing like what fell at the coast near Kalumburu or what ELQ got though. Major damage to Emma Gorge Resort, they are rebuilding and will be open a bit later in the season. The shire plans to inspect the Kalumburu road shortly and then we will know what the story is further North of us. At present I think it will only be a matter of how soon the grader can get through rather than depth of water. May be a bit different story thru to Kalumburu, it may be wetter up that end as Theda Station got 360 mm and Kalumburu got more again.
We have had the odd year with heavy rain early April BUT if it has finished we are in for a pretty dry year.
cheers, Anne