This damn rain!

Not sure if I posted it already - this is last Friday. A friend atop a bubbling drain cover on the flooded road in Calne! She doesn't always look this scary :eek:

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Digicams serve some purpose :)
 
Heh :), has she just seen a floater wrapped in bog roll floating past?

That's what happened here in Maidenhead (quesy smiley)
 
Yikes! I guess it's your turn. We've had all but a few days this past month that it didn't rain at least part of the day- several days all day steady. Finally, since Saturday we've had some sun at long last- I've taken advantage of the sun and started building our new front steps, so not much shooting for me. They literally fell apart- no more putting it off!
 
Ash, are you sure there's any countryside left?! Last time I saw the news it seemed all had washed away.

England never seems to get a break. It washes away in the Summer rains, and then in Winter people freeze to death. How are Spring and Autumn there? :)
 
We had some blistering hot days in Spring :D

Last year's summer was great too. It all depends really. More often than not there are awful weather systems, and now and then there's a heat wave.

There's some countryside left, you just gotta know where to find it :)
 
Don't start worrying until the animals start lining up two by two. Until then, keep on good terms with all friends with long beards and big boats. :D
 
The weather is so bad this year (in the UK) that I have decided to go somewhere else for a holiday next year, Italy Venice.....wish i had gone this year!

I am hoping to go to visit Japan after I have finished my studies, probably 2009, finances depending. That has been one of my lifelong amitions.

Still, one plus, if it wasnt raining all the time, I probably wouldnt be posting here...not sure if thats a blessing though!!

Thea
 
Ash- just heard on the radio just how much rain you're talking about- that's crazy. We haven't had that much all at once- 3" in one day was our biggest around here. 'Bermuda Highs' today and tomorrow- hope they get over your way soon.
 
Ash,

At least you're 40 miles south of the real action. Here in rainswept Gloucsetershire, we have no mains water (and none for at least 7 days) and many of my friends awill be cleaning up their houses when the water subsides. At work (I'm a surgeon) we have cancelled everything except for emergencies. Tomorrow I'm driving 50 miles to another hospital to operate on my cancer patients. I'll take my camera though, just in case!!

Charlie
 
Here in Wales I live on a hillside a couple of hundred feet above the lower parts of the City,and smugly watch the rain running briskly down the street,Hoping all the while that the forest on the slopes above the house doesn't start to follow it.

We generally have 30+ inches per year,but had 2inches in 24 hours the Friday before last.No flooding thankfully.

It's a shock to think of up to 2 weeks without mains water for people not far away in Gloucestershire.


Brian.
 
RML said:
You mean after the floods of the past few years.
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Well, that's one explanation for the low water levels in the UKs reservoirs, for two years running.

How do I remember? When I first started working for the company I'm still with, two years ago, I remember having to tolerate 30+C temperatures. And last summer, I decided to shave my head (an activity that stopped when autumn took hold).
 
When I was a kid I remember summer rain that lasted a week at a time, a dry summer was exception rather than the rule. Got caught out in some proper rain (that bounces off the floor) on Monday when on the bike. Got soaked, I must be a bit masochistic with rain, always puts me in a good mood when soaked to the skin on a motorbike (in summer that is) :)
Feel sorry for those without clean water and flooded homes etc, sometimes living on Lancashire hills can be an advantage.
 
The rain and other climate feaures are not a problem, it is real nice here.

Our drains are pretty good, the rivers have a natural flood plain and we have built on it and farm it. When it floods every thing can stop, transport, tap water, electricity, bridges damaged or down, panic buying of tinned food and bottled water, (stealing from cars does not stop!).

My colleagues now pack a pair of wellies, walking boots, walking jacket,... in their auto... homes need a battery radio, and your car radio buttons need to be set to the local radio stations.

There are water level depth gauges (rulers) at strategic places to indicate where the previous floods got to. The abbey just 20miles south has not been flooded for 400 years, so this was the (last) big one, new mark on the ruler. Some people may have left the camera kit/computer/paino on the ground floor before they went to work... some people had the ground floor furniture stored in a skip in the garden already, from last weeks flood... Some people cannot get insurance or a home loan because of their area.

Some of my colleagues shower at work - for the moment.

Noel
 
I'm waiting for rain for some 'Wet' photos and umbrellas. But we have a drought here, and it won't rain for about another six months.
 
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