Flash flooding in Adelaide as thunderstorms lash state

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Severe storms have caused flooding and power outages across South Australia, with many parts of Adelaide affected. Lightning strikes grounded flights at Adelaide airport and thousands of properties are still without power.

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00:00 We've had some really wild weather overnight and into this morning and even continuing

00:06 now. Adelaide received 25 to 35 millimetres of rain overnight and into a southern area

00:13 of the city, Brownhill Creek, 45 millimetres of rain. Streets were flooded, roundabouts

00:20 were flooded. It was very deceiving but as soon as your car went through that water,

00:24 the water just went all over your car and it was getting a little bit dangerous there.

00:30 So the houses that were backing onto Brownhill Creek, many of those backyards flooded. People

00:38 woke up to water in their backyards essentially and were trying to push it out with brooms

00:42 and with rakes there too. State emergency services received around 170 calls up until

00:51 9am this morning and as I said before, those homes by Brownhill Creek were flooded as the

00:57 creek backed onto them. Other homes in Adelaide South have also been flooded, for example

01:02 here in Forestville. Just behind me on 3rd Avenue, this street was blocked off initially

01:07 as the water had reached mid-tyre height on the cars parked here. There were streets that

01:13 had some of the traffic redirected into one lane as the driveways on the left-hand side

01:17 of the road had all flooded. The rain did stop for a little while but it has come back

01:22 and it is expected to move south and west of Adelaide. So some people will be dealing

01:27 with the clean-up, putting sandbags out. We saw some people putting mulch out in front

01:31 of their houses. Other people will be bracing themselves for further wet weather.

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