the heaviest rain that ever washed away yr car

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the storm drains down by the river backed up yesterday so that the dips in some streets had four foot of water in them ofr a while: london is drowning and i... live at the top of a building on a hill and the sun is staying exactly where it is

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 8 August 2002 08:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

belsize park, chalk farm and kings cross were closed due to the flooding

― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 8 August 2002 08:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

Our office forecourt flooded. I had to walk through it in canvas all stars. My feet were unhappy.

― RickyT (RickyT), Thursday, 8 August 2002 10:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

we were twenty minutes late for the Spurs-Cletic game last night because bith Kings Cross and Euston were flooded out. I left Walthamstow at ten past 5 and it was sunny, by the time I got off the train at Kings Cross the flooding had begun. Pentonville road looked like a waterfall and everyone was head down trudging through, apart from one girl at the traffic lights who was head up, beaming and looking very happy, it was odd.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 8 August 2002 11:20 (twenty-two years ago) link

Finsbury Park flooded too. Had to go to Seven Sisters and bus it.

Yuck.

― Anna, Thursday, 8 August 2002 11:24 (twenty-two years ago) link

HAHA i have FOUND YOU! this is where you have been hiding! i randomly bumped into anna at the pubbe last night and, while nothing got washed away, the ladies loos were flooded which was unpleasant. stupid rain.

― katie, Thursday, 8 August 2002 11:42 (twenty-two years ago) link

Lower Austria is also washing away, as is Salzburg...

― Colin Meeder, Thursday, 8 August 2002 12:49 (twenty-two years ago) link

but it\'s summer!!

― ron (ron), Thursday, 8 August 2002 13:30 (twenty-two years ago) link

Britain laughs in the face of summer!

I went into the ladies loos at closing time Katie. They'd turned the heating up to dry them out and they were full of mist. Very odd.

These boards are like a secret midnight feast.

― Anna, Thursday, 8 August 2002 14:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's pissing rain here too, almost every day since I got back. It's ok though I work inside.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 8 August 2002 14:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

They tell me I'm addicted; it's not all fiction - Adelaide Adams?

― david h, Thursday, 8 August 2002 17:11 (twenty-two years ago) link

It didn't rain much here! Up here, in the 'North'!!! Usually it rains the most here. It rained so much last week that my flowers got bruised, and some of the petunias died. It rained so much in York last year that ppl were evacuated and the fields were full of water; on campus, the ducks had new temporary ponds and the lake slopped all over the walkways. But this week, it didn't rain much here.

― Ellie (Ellie), Thursday, 8 August 2002 18:44 (twenty-two years ago) link

Last summer we had to push some cars out from under a train bridge. The Volkswagon Rabbit's and Golf's were completely submerged...

― brg30 (brg30), Thursday, 8 August 2002 20:31 (twenty-two years ago) link

It was vivid clear blue skies when I looked outside this afternoon. Is Rye freaktown?

― Graham (graham), Thursday, 8 August 2002 20:56 (twenty-two years ago) link

I watched a Discovery Channel show on tsunamis up in Alaska, so now every so often I wonder if there will be a huge earthquake somewhere that will unleash a tsunami on Seattle. I think we're in enough from the coast that we're safe, but out on the Olympic Penninsula, they have signs pointing inland. Just in case you see a 100 ft high wave coming, but don't know which way to run.

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 9 August 2002 05:27 (twenty-two years ago) link

yes if the canaries shelf falls new york will go but london is protected, by france AND kent

so hurrah!!

my parents live by the severn which has been very flood-prone recently: the shropshire star published a special called THE TOWN OF SHREWSBURY UNDERWATER IN THE YEAR 2000, full of miserable ppl being corracled out of their ruined houses but smiling bravely for the camera

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

howevah they too live on a hill: we are cunning like that

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:58 (twenty-two years ago) link

mmmm. coracles.

― katie (katie), Friday, 9 August 2002 08:59 (twenty-two years ago) link

I am going to Shrewsbury tommorow. Perhaps I should wear my wellies? Not that I have wellie syou understand. How best to while away an hour in Shrewsbury, eh?

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 9 August 2002 09:01 (twenty-two years ago) link

an HOUR!! golly! that's why i moved to london haha

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 9 August 2002 09:18 (twenty-two years ago) link

Well there are two hours between train arrival and kick off. So I reckon I have an hour of tourism and an hour to take care of the four pint rule, reinstated for the new season.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 9 August 2002 09:20 (twenty-two years ago) link

I saw that too Mark my Dad showed it to me when the people of Ironbridge could eventually swim to the phones. I'm off to Shropshire later this afternoon, my cousin is getting married tomorrow.

― Anna, Friday, 9 August 2002 09:26 (twenty-two years ago) link

ILx COWBOYS GO SALOP!

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 9 August 2002 09:36 (twenty-two years ago) link

Yee-haw.

Rain, rain, I have heard of it. I haven't seen it in months, but I suspect some trips here and there will rectify that. In the meantime, hope nobody gets washed out of house and home, that would be suckage. :-(

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 August 2002 12:14 (twenty-two years ago) link

A Message From The Creepy Synchronicity Dept:
While reading through this, I realised that Pere Ubu's 'Stormy Weather' was playing on my headphones.....Brrrrrr

― Ray M (rdmanston), Friday, 9 August 2002 13:12 (twenty-two years ago) link

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