when the weather reports all day monday kept saying a thunderstorm was on it's way i am pretty sure that no one believed it. i mean the sky was clear as anything, it was stinking hot and still as anything. but then it got hotter and hotter and the sky got darker and darker. i was at work minding my own business and at half past four my boss decided to make a break for the freeway to try and beat it home...
only he didn't get any further than the carpark!! cause the thunder and lightning started with massive amounts of torrential rain and then hail. pelting down. the noise was unbelievable.
and then the ceiling started leaking, it was like a gutter overflowing, right above my desk. so me being the idiot i am, decide that saving my computer is more important than possibly my life and start scrambling under the desk trying to rip out the computer plugs from the wall before my computer got soaked. probably was not the best idea i've had...
but having succeeded - i continued my attempt to stop destruction at subi - next stop the chapel, where the back windows had shattered and the floor was covered in glass, water and hail. eep. likewise with our mini kitchen, water everywhere and gushing from the ceilings, light fittings and under the doors. the hail was huge and just would not stop.
once it let off a bit i headed for home, which took me two hours, (generally a half hour drive) with all the driving around deep as puddles, gridlocked cars and general disarray and items on the roads. craziness.
and i arrived home to the same thing... water seeped under the front door and ruined our front lounge carpet and flooded the garage, the house smells terrible (as does my work) but in comparison to others - we are damn lucky. no permanent damage, nothing ruined, cars okay (minus the cellulite looking hail damage mine is now sporting) and we are fine and healthy.
damage bill is set to run into the hundreds of millions, cars are smashes, houses ruined, glass from here to there all over the shop and just general madness. march 22 was definately the day perth's weather went nuts.
