Monsoon England!
Yes, you read it right, monsoon... M O N S O O N!
Absolutely sheeting down, literally! As well as thundering and lightening!!
Was an interesting jog to the train station, though thankfully Mr N was kind enough to stop and take me the 4 minute drive (10 minute walk) the rest of the way. I was soaked, I'm sure I left a puddle on his nice leather seats, and managed to steam up both my glasses and his windows! Oooers I hear you say, unfortunately/fortunately it was just the steam!
Got to Woking station and it's coming through the roof, flowing out over the guttering (not down it!) and welling up out the drains on the platform - these are at least 2 metres (6'5" to those emperical types) above the ground! Soaked people debating whether to brave more torrents or wait it out, heck I was wet anyways so dashed for home. Of course the umbrella blew inside out and decided it's had enough and snapped two arms, and in the rubbish it went.
For a while dodged the puddles, then figured out what for as I was already carrying around two miniature swimming pools in my sneakers (discovered lovely water wrinkled toes when I made it home!). Though I did manage to avoid the 'river' that was the road heading down hill - running amazingly fast and not even making it into the drains!
Mind you with everyone round here concreting off their front gardens to make driveways (or to make life easier because they can't be bothered to do a bit of gardening!), I'm surprised that the town isn't floating away!
At least it's washing away all the dirt, leaves, etc etc that has built up, will flush the sewer system, and clean all those good people's cars that haven't been able to because of the drought - in fact it looks pretty much like we've been washed and scrubbed clean!
Just hope it's not too badly flooded at the station, or I may not be able to get to work tomorrow, awww what a shame that'd be!
Absolutely sheeting down, literally! As well as thundering and lightening!!
Was an interesting jog to the train station, though thankfully Mr N was kind enough to stop and take me the 4 minute drive (10 minute walk) the rest of the way. I was soaked, I'm sure I left a puddle on his nice leather seats, and managed to steam up both my glasses and his windows! Oooers I hear you say, unfortunately/fortunately it was just the steam!
Got to Woking station and it's coming through the roof, flowing out over the guttering (not down it!) and welling up out the drains on the platform - these are at least 2 metres (6'5" to those emperical types) above the ground! Soaked people debating whether to brave more torrents or wait it out, heck I was wet anyways so dashed for home. Of course the umbrella blew inside out and decided it's had enough and snapped two arms, and in the rubbish it went.
For a while dodged the puddles, then figured out what for as I was already carrying around two miniature swimming pools in my sneakers (discovered lovely water wrinkled toes when I made it home!). Though I did manage to avoid the 'river' that was the road heading down hill - running amazingly fast and not even making it into the drains!
Mind you with everyone round here concreting off their front gardens to make driveways (or to make life easier because they can't be bothered to do a bit of gardening!), I'm surprised that the town isn't floating away!
At least it's washing away all the dirt, leaves, etc etc that has built up, will flush the sewer system, and clean all those good people's cars that haven't been able to because of the drought - in fact it looks pretty much like we've been washed and scrubbed clean!
Just hope it's not too badly flooded at the station, or I may not be able to get to work tomorrow, awww what a shame that'd be!
posted by Tresi at 6:18 pm
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