About 11.30 am ,a minute from home (6 streets with 2 roundabouts & a stop sign ),a nasty storm hit.The wipers on full,headlights on ,where has the roundabout gone,its underwater,got through it ok.The next one is not in a dip,so its visible ,thankfully no cars coming at the stop sign because vision is woeful,dodge the lake forming at the next T junction.Turn into our street ,where is our drive way ,nearly went into a neighbours.
Open the garage & drive in,open the car door to find that the rain water has followed the car in.
So much water is gushing out the down pipe ,it looks like a burst water main,& the grate can't handle it,
Husband is standing there sweeping it around the side of the house while I move anything up off the floor which isn't waterproof.
The dog is inside running around terrified of the noise.Gandalf turns up a few minutes later drowned & terrified. His eyes were dilated. & took a few hours to get back to normal.
We only got the beginning of the storm ,10inches of hail on the road & Bateau Bay shopping centre roof collapsed & was evacuated.
The car probably stinks because on the bag of cow manure we bought with the potting mix etc..
The rain has stopped so the car can be unloaded now
Hailstorms are usually are Christmas here.A few years ago I avoided one ,only to be caught in another one the next day at about the same time.It has taken years to live down the damage done to his 3mth old new car.It took over 3mths before it was repaired because of the number of damaged cars.
Have a look at what Meg had to drive through. Love Chris
1. This was Meg's view from her car on her way home at 2.45pm this afternoon.
2. Cars at the bowling club at 11.30am. The Bowling club roof collapsed over both end lanes and the roof of the Coles Bay Village also collapsed and everyone was evacuated.
