Santa Getting Evacuated From A Flooded Bondi Junction Westfield Is The Saddest Thing You’ll Ever See
Christmas is RUINED.
If you’re not in Sydney at the minute, know this: it’s rainin’ pretty bad.
Crazy storm sweeping through Bondi Junction now. Flooding in central mall. #sydneystorm @abcnews @RadioNational pic.twitter.com/SOh7qKZC0V
— Hamish Macdonald (@hamishNews) December 16, 2015
Enfield drive at Bondi Junction is like a scene from Walking Dead because of floods! Gridlock. #sydneystorm #9News pic.twitter.com/tiVzU3lUAb — Bloodliners Comic (@Bloodliners) December 16, 2015
Specifically, the wrath of whatever angry weather god we pissed off this time seems to have concentrated itself on the eastern suburb of Bondi Junction, most well-known for its giant Westfield and being the place where thousands of beachgoers transfer from trains to buses instead of getting a train straight to the beach because no one knows how to plan anything in this city.
That Westfield seemingly did something terrible in a past life, because the brief but very intense storm that passed over Sydney a little while ago managed to blow the roof halfway off the joint.Water was leaking into the food court like an extremely low-budget horror movie, forcing a mass evacuation and ruining thousands of dollars worth of overpriced Christmas junk.
Bondi Junction is sinking. Evacuation happening. #sydneystorm pic.twitter.com/tdE4pP5wOZ
— Lachlan Pease (@predakanga) December 16, 2015
Westfield Bondi Junction has flooded after part roof collapse. The mall is being evacuated. Photo: Lauren Crothers pic.twitter.com/PD3k7IkPi1
— 7News Yahoo7 (@Y7News) December 16, 2015
Some damp Just Jeans merchandise and abandoned nine-dollar food court curries weren’t the worst of it, though. An intrepid Citizen Journalist (read: guy who works for us) was on the scene, and captured the greatest tragedy of all: the resident Westfield Santa, slowly descending the escalator with hundreds of drenched punters, sadly ringing his little Christmas bell.
Christmas is dead. *ding*
Christmas is dead. *ding*
Christmas is dead. *ding*