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Today.

I woke up, as normal. Late. About 10 past 7 in the morning. It's storming. Like thunder and lightning, apocalypse storming. I mutter to myself, hating storms and force my self to roll out of bed. I get ready as normal, and as I'm brushing my hair, lightning strikes, so close that the house shakes. Now, I'm pretty scared. The dog is inside, she's going insane, and she runs to me because she's scared. Then the rain starts getting heavier. My Grandma comes in to our house, soaked. She went to pick my cousins up for school but the road near the pub is underwater, so afraid of getting washed away she comes to our house. I ring my friend to see whether she's going to school. Halfway into the conversation, the power goes. Then I call her on the mobile, then that line drops out too. So we go onto the verandah and watch the rain. Its flooding down our driveway about 30cm at it's deepest. My dad, remebers that there are power tools on the floor in the garage and goes out to check them, then inspects the neighbours yard to see if its as bad, leans on the colourbond fence and gets electrocuted. Fun. So he runs back inside and the waters keep rising. There are people in their 4WDs driving along, all smug thinking they can go anywhere. Hah. They get to the end of our street then turn back, failing to get past the half a metre of water. Damn council. The highway (at the end of our street) is built up. So the waters can't get past it. The area where I live is realtivley flat, at the base of a mountain. so we get all the run off. But the council has the most dodgy drainage system. And the drains infront of our house are blocked, so the water isn't going anywhere. Down the end of the street next to us, There are cars floating in the Pool carpark. The waters there reached over a metre. Ridiculous. Then we get towing trucks coming up and down our street. followed by more traffic, except they all pile up in the middle of the street Because they can't get out. A truck with an escavator on top comes down our street and knocks the powerlines from next door, snapping them. So they now have a live wire in their front yard. I have to go searching down the street for the dog dish, because it floated away. About 10:30, the water in the street has completely gone away and the sun is shining. Yet. the water in our yard is still sititng there, and no-one has power. .About Midday our power comes on, and the water has cleared.

So that was my morning.