We were almost flooded

Heavy rain around Melbourne yesterday & I woke up at around 2am to find a leak in our family room, nothing major & I called PD yesterday to get them to have a look. They sent someone there to have a look & he said it might be caused by the antenna, i.e. there might be a tiny gap whan the antenna was installed. He told us to keep an eye on it & probably to go up the roof space when it rains.

Some 40 years ago, where my neighbour house is, it used to be a creek there & they filled the creed & built a storm water drain at the side of their property. We had some 51mm or rain in probably just over an hour & obviously the storm water drain wasn't able to cope with it & unfortunately for our neighbour, his property was flooded. The water then had nowhere to go, it went to our side yard through the fence. Our backyard was flooded, the water was about 2cm from entering our house through the alfresco & laundry doors. I had to open the garage door to let the water flow from the side of the house through the garage to the front of the house. I also had to open the side gate to allow the water from the other side of the house & the backyard to flow through to the front of the house. We were lucky not to be flooded, not so our next door neighbour & the house accross the street.

We've been trying to get Whitehorse City Council to fix this storm water drainage problems for a while now & so far we haven't been able to get them to do anything, not even to get them to do an assessment of the situation.