A "large slab" of ceiling on the busy Westfield Bondi Junction purchasing centre collapsed onto an escalator throughout a torrential rain storm this afternoon, narrowly lacking Sydney creator Kerri Sackville.
"I used to be getting on the escalator and I truly seen proper subsequent to me water was operating down the wall," Sackville advised 9news.com.au.
"I assumed, 'That is odd', as a result of I used to be 4 ranges underground."
The subsequent second a "large slab of the ceiling collapsed" proper subsequent to her, adopted by a "gushing torrent of water".
"It practically took out me," Sackville mentioned, including that coincidentally Sydney ABC radio broadcaster James Valentine had additionally been on the escalator, travelling in entrance of her.
"I received a giant fright," she mentioned.
No person was injured, Sackville mentioned, however a lady had appeared to slide over.
Video and photographs posted to social media by Sackville and Valentine present a big sheet of the ceiling and particles mendacity on the escalator.
"At the least I might have died in my religious residence," Sackville quipped below one in all her pictures.
Valentine wrote on Twitter the caved-in ceiling had "missed me by two metres".
Sackville mentioned she had gone into Westfield to purchase some fruit and to paradoxically search shelter from the rain, which has hammered Sydney all day.
She had additionally been inside the favored Bondi purchasing centre in 2015, when heavy rains triggered a part of the roof to collapse, she mentioned.
"Maybe I am jinxed."
Round 120-150mm of rain is anticipated to hit Sydney as we speak.