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[Colif]

we had 28.4mm of rain last night, in 2 hours. Mum could hear it hitting the side of the house, and I could hear it hitting the wall behind me. I jokingly said during the rain that we were floating down the road now

We had a static thunderstorm that sat on us for 2 hours. It just appeared over us as I had been watching the weather. The First lightning strike was in our suburb and caused me to turn PC off fast.

It caused damage throughout the area, washed away a foot bridge over a creek here and tore up concrete on the same creek as the creek is generally controlled. Flash floods have killed people along it before

Flood - Woden Valley, ACT 1971 | Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub

On 26 January 1971, a super cell thunderstorm caused widespread flooding in the Woden Valley in Canberra's south-east. The rainfall started at approximately 7:30pm-7:50pm; up to 100 millimetres was recorded in one hour by private rain gauges in the suburbs of Farrer and Torrens.

knowledge.aidr.org.au

That one caused a complete redesign of all the roads along the creek so that they were all above it at all times. Cars got washed down the creek for a large distance. It was concreted along its entire length until the oval at the end of my street.

The amount of rain flowing from our gutters broke part of the downpipe

Mind you, we have it easy this week compared to others

I am wrong about two taps, we have a cold/hot choice but they all come through the one outlet. So we have to waste cold to get to hot. And be careful if someone just used hot when you expecting cold. And showers can be fun as well.

 

[Zloth]

we had 28.4mm of rain last night, in 2 hours.

Did you lose a factor of 10 there? You can get flooding in a desert canyon with that level of rain, but...