Today it rained. Hard. Very hard.

Hard enough that our dog hid under the bed, or under the desk, or behind the bedroom door. Hard enough that it made the gutters overflow. Hard enough that when I walked into the upstairs room, there was hail on the floor 3 metres from the window.

Water came in EVERYWHERE. It swamped the upstairs room, and started leaking through to the middle level of the house, dripping from the ceiling, dripping from the cupboards, and even from the light fittings. Which was the scary one.

The light was switched off, but so much water had come through, it was causing electrical sparking in my sisters light. In fact, the light globe was glowing and flashing on and off. I walked underneath the light to see how much water was leaking through, and a few drops splashed on my face and almost burned me! The water was HOT!

It was obviously causing an electrical short, and with all the sparking and glowing, the water had heated to around 70 degrees. And I had it drop straight onto my face. That sucked.

The gutters overflowed, it hailed inside, water leaked through the light fittings, we had to cut the power to the house... and through all that rain, through all that hail...

...the possum poo stayed stuck to the bonnet of my car.