Here  some videos  many people put on youtube  to show  the  unprecedented ( actually, it  already  happened  in 1970, too...) rain  that hit  the town  where  I  work  in Italy  last  yesterday  at noon...

The deluge...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM6ki1xwhbE&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9J0WyX_VrU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy0xwazRwnI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5fQyPqhggg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNSDVTn1F0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IUOI_xg62M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nt8-jnriMs

Actually, the skyscraper  where  I work, in the distance, as follows, was  almost surrounded  by the water, but it only reached  a small  height- more or less  30  cm.  with no consequences at all...-  while most of the damages  occurred  in the background, in the suburbs  near the mountains  and  next to  one  of the town rivers, along with some  dead  and destruction...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR06V8Wj5Kk&NR=1


All was caused by  a sort of deluge  with  heavy rain  which lasted  no longer than  20 minutes...  :o

By  luck, the  only damages  the friends  I  know   around  had  were some loss of  out-of-date  and rare  scale models  put  into one of  the  laboratory- shops  owned  by  two  modellers  of my Club, along with some old military- themed  magazines  and  books, in a way...