Light Rain? Yeah Right!

[PEN]

Lol I'm not surprised coming from Bristol to London.

my wife and her friend drove from London to Bath today. .... bad, bad move.

they hit the M4 just as t he centre of the storm did. 2 hour journey magically turned into an 8 hour journey.

she's just texted me some of the pictures of cars driving through water about half way up the doors.... madness indeed.

Just feel sorry for those whose homes are flooded (again). Gotta be an absoute nightmare

PEN

[DR]

Well I never got to London - got to the pub though.

Getting up at 5am to try again. Yay!

I did warn you

[redlight]

Took the opportunity and cut the grass this morning and it is now peeing down again.

[tiggerai]

We even had some sun earlier, but it's just started tipping it down in the last 15 mins...

I like rain though, it's cooling everything down and it sounds nice to listen to and chill out to.

[roorooroo]

Also keeps those annoying kids on the corner of the streets from swearing at you every time to go past.

[BEANFro Elite]

Rave, what bus route, or routes do you drive?

[fat jez]

I like rain though, it's cooling everything down and it sounds nice to listen to and chill out to.

Yeah, it's nice to be able to sleep at night without being bathed in sweat from the hot and humid nights we had last year!

I drove up to see a friend near Birmingham yesterday. M5 was fine, although you could see huge lakes on either side of the motorway around Gloucester. We went out for a pub lunch and by a fluke found our way to the country pub (she ignored the sat nav in her car). On the way back following the correct route we kept hitting impassable roads closed due to flooding and ended up coming back the way we went.

The Bristol area has been fine though, no problems at all.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Bunjiweb]

lucky... Gloucestershire is grinding to a halt....

[merdat]

The 'jet stream is 'out of sync ' normal flow is north -over iceland but further south at moment and mixing with hot air currents from France and Spain so there could be a lot more rain in the next few days

[Whiternoise]

Reports of 2Ft of flooding around here - luckily where I live it's on a hill - but I've just gone to do some jobs and there is a LOT of water around - people driving through it very fast in small cars (not sensible) I counted 15 broken down cars....

My car wasn't affected at all.

Same - living on a hill is a handy thing, I was in Holland when Swindon was hit, apparently 'Bassett was pretty badly flooded. Still, this is just unnatural.. but i'm hoping to have a barbie tommorow

[DR]

Same - living on a hill is a handy thing, I was in Holland when Swindon was hit, apparently 'Bassett was pretty badly flooded. Still, this is just unnatural.. but i'm hoping to have a barbie tommorow

It was not as badly hit as other places

[Steve]

I did warn you

We got a 5.50am bus in the end - roads were nice and clear at that time

Coming back was rather hilarious. There was an accident on the motorway and it had been closed off between J12 and J13. We saw about 5 miles of traffic that had gone through before they closed the motorway off at the preceding junction and then another 5 miles of traffic trying to get off at said junction.

People were sat on their roofs waving at us!

[Steven W]

Went today to check the place where we're supposed to be having our wedding photos taken on Friday. The park is closed because it's totally flooded. Looks like it's a wash out for Friday as well

[DR]

Wear your skin tight swimming costumes

[Steven W]

Wear your skin tight swimming costumes

I'll be wearing rubber pants, do you think that will help?

[Clunk]

I'll be wearing rubber pants, do you think that will help?

Not to be sniffed at.