The live streaming images were awesome (on the BOM website). The brown is land, the black is heavy/severe rain.
The remainder of racing at Flemington was cancelled and I get home, check the weather radar and see more rolling storms and also the MEL arrivals and departures queue looks amusingly long. "Delayed, delayed, delayed..."
Word from an associate at Moorabbin is that there was some minor damage to an a/c belonging to either MFS of MFT - but said associate is known for talking absolute bollocks.