Severe weather warning as rain lashes Sydney

So apparently there was a weather alarm in Sydney this morning, which was raised for good reasons considering the fact that 120 millimeters of rain had fallen down (In comparison, in the Netherlands it rains 65 mm/month). This brought a halt to city's transport system and caused hundreds of rescues and evacuations. Sydney suffered its heaviest rainfall in five years. Of course I was set for a big experiment that day that took me seven days to prepare. While every other sane human being would just have called it a day and gone back to sleep, I was surviving on my bike through this wild rain fall in the dark at 06:30. The much feared hill in the park turned into a waterfall roughly colliding against my bike. Streets became rivers, pedestrians became swimmers, and cyclers became warriors. I thought to myself: ''Why am I doing this!? I don't even get paid!'' But my preparations, curiosity, and responsibility as a scientist took al my sense of sanity away. More importantly, from a functional perspective the heavy rain took the ability of my bike to brake away. At every cross section I just prayed that no vehicle would approach me. Other than that, I must say I took the appropriate measures, to the extent that was possible that is, to tame this horrible weather. I brought a second outfit with me in a plastic bag inside my backpack. Unfortunately, I forgot to bring a second pair of underwear. At 07:00 A.M. I was pipetting with a cold, wet ass. These cells better be worth it.

(Picture: Sydney Morning Herald)