Victoria - Tropical rain event - February 2nd-8th 2011

[James]

lots of heavy rain here, but no thunder or lightning

[mick]

Caaller to AW from Laverton North reports cars all stopped on freeway, car into tree, car into fence, massive hail, incredible winds, says it felt like mini cyclone.

[mad*moo73]

I don't live far from Moorabbin Airport, under the second "o" on the radar which currently orange on rain since 9am radar - that's 100mm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[solcampbell]

we've had about 25mm in 20 minutes here in Grovedale and just starting to ease now....

EDIT: spoke too soon, just got 3 times heavier

[Jake Smethurst]

AWF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE
Please use official warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology for professional services.

Thunderstorms continue to affect the MELBOURNE area. A severe thunderstorm is currently about to move over the MELBOURNE CBD region, including CAUFIELD and VIEWBANK ... this thunderstorm is capable of producing all severe phenonema.

[Jake Smethurst]

AWF SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ADVICE
Please use official warnings from the Bureau of Meteorology for professional services.

URGENT MESSAGE. Large hail and destructive winds is especially possibly in the severe thunderstorm about to move over the MELBOURNE CBD region, including CAUFIELD and VIEWBANK. Reports suggest large hail from this thunderstorm.

[James]

rainfall is phenomenal with this...and going for so long!

the noise as the waves of it come by...so loud

[Lily]

Guys, can anyone help please? I have water running down the inside wall of my dining room and water running out of my light switch. I can't get onto SES (engaged), my husband's not here. What do I do? I'm concerned about the electrical side of things more than anything, and also concerned that water may be getting into the ceiling.

Can anyone help at all? Any advice?

[Bellarine]

Liliy - turn off power at the swithcboard at the front - should be one for mains power and one for lights

[Ausmammal]

Just looking out the window at the creek and saw some guy walking down the road covering his head, a car stopped (right neigbourly) and asked him if he wanted a lift but i think he would probably have said i'm already soaked throuugh and don't want to get in your car like this so the car drove off and the guy kept walking. I guess what ever was covering his head wasn't really working

[Mosaic]

turn the power off at the meter lily

[Leasy]

ZOMG!!!! Don't drive down Kings Way, just narrowly avoided flooding my car!!!! Wall of water driving on the Bolte Bridge at 100km/hr!! Saw greenage just before it hit and unknowingly core punched that thing - very nasty out there!!

[Meso]

Look at the satelite - http://realtime2.bsch.au.com/vis_sat2.h ... art=&stop=" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It's just a mess of anvils.

Sorry to hear about your predicament, Lily. Turning the power off is probably the best thing, water and electricity don't mix!

[Ausmammal]

Don't risk just turning of lights just turn it all off lily, safer that way.

[tizza]

Jake thanks OH boy did I get my answer!!!

LILY, I think someone has put a bloody hex on you

Shell, that was happening here, it swirling like crazy and doing the same thing, water was running down the windows like a waterfall

The sky went totally green here before it hit, I though we were going to get pummelled by hail for sure. I've never see a sky go that green without hail before!

Everyone stay safe, that is just severe weather, it's like a monsoon, is still going here. As I said earlier I have never seen it rain like that in Melbourne before.

We didn't get a single bolt of lightning but the lights keep flickering, bloody hell is just going back to white out conditions again, THIS IS VERY SERIOUS. Melbourne can't handle rain like this

[mick]

Liliy - turn off power at the swithcboard at the front - should be one for mains power and one for lights

If you cant get onto SES, call CFA, who will call SES.

[Duckey]

Guys, can anyone help please? I have water running down the inside wall of my dining room and water running out of my light switch. I can't get onto SES (engaged), my husband's not here. What do I do? I'm concerned about the electrical side of things more than anything, and also concerned that water may be getting into the ceiling.

Can anyone help at all? Any advice?

Hi Lily...omg are you ok you poor thing? I think the best thing to do to start is to turn off the electricity at the meter, just to be sure, and try and get towels around the bottom of the walls if you have carpet to avoid staining. But the electricity is the important thing, get it off asap.

[stratospear]

Lily, go to meter box and flick main power switch to off. You'll loose all power, but at least it will prevent any short circuits.

[I_Love_Storms]

Andrew (Droughtbreaker) predicted this chaos well in one of his posts yesterday

[occluded]

Lily, keep trying, the call centre (ESTA) probably getting swamped as often happens in these events, however if it's that busy they may not get there for some time anyway.

As Bellarine said, switch the power off if you can, also if water is coming into the roof space in LARGE amounts it can pay to put a bucket out and chuck a hole in the roof with a screwdriver to let the water out before it gets worse.