It's been totally bizarre here the last few days. One minute it's stinking hot, then it's raining full on with thunder, lightning, the total package. Driving home yesterday, pleasant one minute, then got dark, started raining with seriously large drops. Mass flooding, rivers sprang up from nowhere, then the hail started. Huge chunks of frozen ice started slamming down on the car, thick fog sprang up. Cars were stopping dead in the road (when they weren't slamming into each other). Suddenly the roads started to look like the Desert Road in NZ at the peak of ski season - large piles of ice covered the roads, tire tracks occasionally cutting through it. Torrents of mud and debris washing down the road, pieces of tree flying through the air. The hail smashed the outdoor security lights on the house, but luckily the cars held up okay. I was dreading getting out and finding the roof covered in dents. Some people in Brisbane weren't so lucky - pictures on the news of people's homes filled with ice after tennis ball-sized lumps of hail smashed through their ceiling and into their homes. We've got another 3 days of this. I'm dreading having to fly on Friday if the weather is like this - last time I flew from Sydney to Brisbane in a thunderstorm it was pretty scary.