Tara Murray
Football grounds were looking more like swimming pools and some roads were closed as heavy rain hit Brimbank last week.
Last Monday night, rain pelted the state with Melbourne’s western suburbs among the hardest hit.
Most suburbs in the west had between 35 and 45 millimetres of rain until 9am on Tuesday morning.
Weather bureau senior forecaster Matthew Thomas said Kororoit Creek and St Albans both received 46 millimetres of rain.
Several roads, including Ballarat Road near Caroline Springs Boulevard in Ravenhall, Kings Road in Sydenham, Fitzgerald Road near the M80 Ring Road and Taylors Road, St Albans, were affected by flooding.
Caroline Springs Lake was overflowing, with seats on the edge of the river covered in water.
One resident, who has lived in the area for more than eight years, said he had never seen the lake flooded like that.
Brimbank SES unit controller Bernie Thatcher said despite the heavy rain in the area, they were only called to seven jobs, four on Monday and three during the day on Tuesday.
She said most of the jobs were for building damage due to water leaking in through the roof, while one resident who had ongoing maintenance problems at her place had to be relocated due to damage.
They also had one job for a person stuck in their car in flood waters, but that was cancelled when they were on route after the person being able to free themselves.
