It's been torrential rain all day, already some roads are closed and I've just been to Asda to stock up on essentials and driven back and in the intervening 20 mins the water has gone from a few inches up to headlamp level again in my village, can only imagine what it's like in Carlisle. Again

Been really nice here today .. .. sitting here in a vest top as i write this

Lauren xoxox

Throwing it down here Helzie, sounds wicked on my window (which is angled like a skylight).

It would be quite ironic if just as they finished getting all the houses dried, damp proofed and rewired and decorated they all got flooded again......... Power is now flickering so if I disappear you know why

I Hope itl be ok! XXX

Hmm we have rain now but not much and it's the first we've had for well over a week now.

So does Carlisle always flood when every time it rains for one day? How long has this been going on?! Back home there's no way we'd come close to a flood unless there was days of rainfall...

just started raining here i can hear it on the window

It was quite nice until about an hour ago. I was playing with my camera.

No Dr Pepper, our floods in January were apparently statistically likely to happen only once every 200 years, hopefully will be OK and drain away. However we have apparently had close on a month's rainfall in one day!

Christ well up to headlamps sounds pretty dire to me I hope it doesn't reach the houses.

The only time I've driven through that was when one of our main roads turned into a ford, there was no way round it so had to go through. The water was well up the doors at the deepest bit, but loads of people were going through it. I was fine (in a mk1 punto) but a couple didn't make it, one of those little suzukis and to my amusement a Freelander. That'll show him I bet he was going too fast or something. You need land rovers because they are tougher yeah whatever...!

nightmare.. tis dry and warm over here. You know who to ring if you need somewhere to stay lol!

Got called out many years ago to recover a van from a "bit of a flood". Got there and the road was under three feet of water. I had a truck so got lined up to pull her out then realised I had to connect her to the truck
If anyone saw me in my pants fishing for a tow hook in three feet of water then they would have been shocked. The water was very cold. Worst bit was the woman who I was picking up, apparently it had grown two feet in only twenty minutes, (the flood)

Helz said:

I've just been to Asda to stock up on essentials

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what cakes you get then?

I didn't buy cakes, thought petrol, candles, a torch, soup and bottled water was more important I could drive back now and see how deep the water is (if I was convinced the car would make it through!) and get cake

cake should have been top of the list
remember cake will see you through time of no petrol, candles, a torch, soup and bottled water, better than petrol, candles, a torch, soup and bottled water will see you through times of no cake

Awww, want the Coupe to work, because in the rain the aerodynamics make the spray into a nice smooth pattern.
Shame the wipers don't work properly at "higher" speeds (They struggle to pull the wiper arms back down the windscreen)
H

wet belly day here

Still ain't rained in Northwest London.... though as soon as I hit submit its probably gonna start pissin buckets.

Nope still dry

The rain has just stopped in Belfast and it's brightening up .