Drought Broken

Bright blue skies with no sign of a cloud at 1 o'clock had turned to huge black mounds of menace by 3.30. Rolling thunder growled in the distance as I headed home. A few large raindrops splashed onto the windscreen to be instantly replaced by large white stones which rattled down on the metal threatening to dent the chassis or worse break a windscreen.

The drought had broken and how. Lightning flashed, thunder roared as huge hailstones belted down followed by torrential rain which flooded the gutters causing water to course down the walls and into open windows. Three towels later I had mopped up and saved my carpets from an unscheduled clean. The flooded paths at my place were minor compared to the damage experienced by home owners throughout Perth.