Rainy Deliciousness

Mama and I went to Greensborough Plaza today in order to leap about at the Millers sale, because Millers sales are awesome. Came away with lots of goodness to wear – new with tags! This Savers girl doesn’t know how to feel about that… anywhoo, as we were paying, the lights flickered and thunder rolled. Then thunder rolled. Once we’d left the store, we noticed all the internal lights that weren’t in stores were off, and through the big skylight we saw heavy rain. Heavy, heavy rain. The storm didn’t last particularly long, but it hit with power, dumping vast amounts of wonderous wet stuff.

We stopped off to see Katie at her bauble stand and she said she could feel water hitting her, but figured she was just being paranoid. Apparently not, quite a lot of the plaza had incoming water issues.

Okay sure, there’s been issues. Someone in Eltham came home to find the contents of their garage, including a double deep freeze, floating down the road.  Greensborough Plaza had some MAJOR issues themselves:

As well as multiple stores flooding, they had a cave in of the ceiling near the main street doors. Quite a few shops closed up till the waters were out, and the shops near this cave in were closed pretty much till that’s fixed I think.

In Diamond Creek, the supermarket was dealing with a rising tide of water coming in, and recovering from a power failure which left a few registers out of action. Again, more shops closed.

Pretty wild old day for weather. Came home to find my desk covered in water from an old roof leak, but we’ve only had 1 leak in the whole house, which is a record for us.