When the floods came to VIC

Last Friday (4 Feb), we finally got a tiny taste of what others in QLD and country VIC have been experiencing.

It began with the heaviest downpour we'd ever seen.

Before long, the dip in the road outside our neighbour's nature strip was a long muddy ditch.

Then in the middle of dinner preparation, water started pouring through the kitchen ceiling, through the skylight and downlights.

Hubby got out a couple of large plastic containers and placed them strategically under the leaks.

And we got on with dinner.

On Sat morning, I got a call from Beth's music teacher saying he was cancelling the class as the roads in his area were flooded.

Then we got to Chinese School in Point Cook, and saw how the storm had transformed Skeleton Creek and the wetlands near the library. A guy stood on the bridge taking photos of the flooded creek and semi-submerged trees.

We met some friends at the school and learned that their 2 y.o. Porter Davis-built house had been a victim of the storm too. They'd had to lay out pots and pans around the rumpus room to catch the rain. Luckily most of their house is tiled.

They told us of a house in Williams Landing whose roof had collapsed.

At kinder this week, the kinder assistant told of how her kitchen roof had caved in at 3 am and she'd had to move to her daughter's house until the roof could be fixed.

This morning, a school mum told of her backyard and laundry being flooded, and of another family who had to be rescued by SES when their roof and alfresco collapsed. Theirs is a Porter Davis-built house too (hmm...), and they are now in talks with the builder, insurers and building assessors.

This week's Wyndham Leader has photos and stories of people and property and their encounters with last Fri's storms. Really makes you aware of the environment in a new way.