Rain, flash floods, car accidents, traffic jams, thunder

I'm still at work. It was pouring & I got a txt saying our road was flooded, but my car has high clearance, so I wasn't too concerned. I did try to leave when it started thundering but as I drove out one of our school exits, I saw that the road was blocked with cars going out...all the way back to the main Uni ring and beyond. So I turned back the other way, hoping the other exit was free, but I could see cars backed up to the point at which you could turn right rather than left. I think the whole university is grid locked. I turned back in the other school entrance to come back to work & after I parked I get a txt saying there was a crash on the Nathan Street Bridge. That would explain it. Now theres so much water I just got a txt telling my the budies in the aviary have an indoor swimming pool - the aviary is usually 10cm above ground level - ick!

Edit: finally got home & had to use some odd back streets. There was lots of traffic doing the same and some really fast flowing water over roads. I only saw one car in the water with hazard lights, abandoned. I decided to get into my street at the other end as the end I usually use is very potholed and would be flooded. I should have gone the usual way. The bottom end is a bit lower and it was DEEP. I considered driving up someone elses driveway to get out of the water but by the time I thought of that solution, I was onto the shallower part of the road (ie still too deep for a little sedan but ok for me - just. My fan belts were screaming as I came up the drive. Now I just hope it will all drip dry. Dad's belts were screaming too. He was at a shopping centre when it all hit & it was up to his doors trying to get out of the car park. The water was still rising when he left.