Flash Flood

Thunderstorms were predicted for Northern parts of Auckland on Friday night. So at about 6:30pm, it all started. Except that, it literally downpoured for almost an hour with thousands of lightning strikes. I've NEVER seen such heavy rain in my life. It was very scary. Here's a short video of the torrential rain in my backyard. Notice the waves of water running down the nice footpaths that lead down to the chicken run. YIKES!

During this flash flood, the kitchen windows were leaking, water was coming in from under the dishwasher AND we also had a leak in the storage room downstairs!!! I had every towel that we own soaking up all the water from around the house.

My husband was out swimming at Piha beach with his mate (as one does at the end of Summer) while all this chaos was happening. When I text him the video clip from above, he sent me this photo of the beach he was at.



When he returned, he was shocked the to see that a) the power was out and I was sitting in a candle lit house (thanks to my mom for bring me a bag of 100 tealights) and b) all the towels on the floor and widows around the house. He's always away when things like this happen. Grrrr.....