Storm Chaos

I bet you people already know what happened here in Melbourne yesterday. I bought the papers today and it said it's the worst storm ever in 40 years. It was a scary yet fun experience really.

I was at the Moomba Festival with my friends. Dark clouds all over city sky and then raindrops starts falling bit by bit and the raindrops became hailstones. Seriously, it was scary at the time. We just stood in front of the game stall and use our bags to cover our faces. Then later 3 of us ran over to another stall with a little roof and just stood there while another 3 of my friends hid under the table at the 1st stall. We were called to go behind where all the toys are placed under the bridge. There were many people hiding there and we all held the waterproof plastic up.

I got hit on the head, hands, legs, back, everywhere basically. Not my face though. hahaha. And I was wearing lady sandals. We were all standing in the icy cold water. I could not feel my feet, really. My other 3 friends soon later joined us and suggested that we ran to get a better place to hide since we're all wet. And yea, we ran, in the ice cold water. We ran all the way to Federation Square and I was shocked to see small part of the ceiling came off and landed on the book stalls below. But thank god nobody was hurt.

Man it was crazy I tell you! But then, like I said, nice experience :) But I don't want it to happen again. Look at all the damages! I got a few bruises and so do my friends. One of my friend's leg was bleeding, not too serious though. He was wearing jeans and he still bleed! The size of the hailstone is no joke, golf ball size! But it was bigger in some other places, tennis ball size. Can you imagine how scary it was!

Look at the size of that thing, this is consider medium size already. There are bigger ones.

They even did so much damage on cars.

Parts of the city roads were flooded. Mad I tell you.

Thank god I'm okay. Nothing happen to us. I tried calling home but couldn't get through. Only my sister though. AHAHA.

The weather is going to be pretty bad these few days. It rained very heavy this evening and one of tower in my hostel flooded. Not very serious one. Alarms everywhere. @.@ Totally chaos!

You guys can have a look at those pictures here. Hailstone Chaos

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