A typical forecast for a rainy day here in Perth would be for 0 to 10 mm of rain.
It started raining from about 6 pm yesterday, and the forecast was for 30 to 60 mm of rain. I cannot recall ever seeing such a prediction before.
This morning, I woke at about 6 am to an exceptionally heavy and long lasting shower.
A little later Grandma C woke up and told me there was water entering the bedroom. I opened the back door to get the mop and this is what I saw.
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The whole path running the length of our house was under at least 75mm of water.
It had started seeping in under the back door. And the bedroom was wet because the water had worked its way in through the sliding door frame.
I had a look at the front yard:
And the back of the house:
In the 40 years we've been here, this has been the heaviest rainfall ever.
I checked the Bureau of Meteorology's figures, and we appear to have had 28 mm of rain.
Imagine if we had the full 60 mm forecast!
Thankfully there was a break in the weather, and the mini-flood soon subsided.
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