Last Day of the Holidays

The last day was a blur of last minute jobs: uniform purchases, dentist check ups and frantic dashes for school stationery.
That would have been enough for one day, will that and a parish funeral, but the end of the day was completely different.
We had a1 in 50 year rain fall event, with extremely heavy rain fall and electrical storms for a couple of hours.
There were cars bizarrely submerged in down town Geelong, whilst here on top of a hill, the high speed and quantity of rain and hail caused damage to houses, gardens and cars.

Our house got off quite lightly, with only a carpet flood damaged with rain that came in the front door, but our neighbour had to bail out his garage and another had heaps of fine red gravel from his garden washed down the road. A remarkable thing happened, without being asked, many of us appeared with wheelbarrows, shovels and brushes to help him retreive the red stones. My mob enjoyed puddling in the remaining water, whilst brushing up the gravel.