tony sayer wrote:
In article , Tanner-'op
tannerop@i. ?.?.?.?.?.nvalid.com scribeth thus
Colin Wilson wrote:
Well, the day started absolutely scorching, but by 4pm the
rainclouds had gathered.

Lets put it this way, i've had a PC or two on 24/7 since ~1993 and
today was the first time I not only switched them off, but also
_unplugged_ them and the router.

Lightning like we've never seen it, extremely heavy rain lasting
about an hour, and this was the road outside - luckily we're in the
"shallow" end (!)

http://www.coreutilities.co.uk/rain.jpg

Yes, that kid is ass deep in water, and the pavement where the bike
is happens to be a double-height kerb.

This crazy barsteward drove through it - he looks artificially high
here because he's going over a speed hump (!)

http://www.coreutilities.co.uk/rain2.jpg

And last but not least, here's a (cropped) pic of my neighbour -
quite a lot of symmetry to it, even if I do say so myself...

http://www.coreutilities.co.uk/rain3.jpg

We had no patio left (developed a free swimming pool - 4-5" of
water), and it came to within an inch of breaching the damp course.

Just to top it all off, we've got a flat-roofed extension, and it
started to leak where it met the back wall of the house :-} (luckily
it's just "damp" not ****ing in !)

We had it Friday evening (after a warm day) for around three hours
or so covering the Southwest and South Wales. For a while, the
storm was eerily 'silent' with huge lightning flashes every few
minutes lighting up the dark sky - and not a sound.

Then came the sound effects, thunder that seemed to roll around for
minutes on end after each lightning flash -and then the crescendo
with the added rain - and was it a fantastic, nature flexing its
muscles. :-)

No problem with flooding where I was though - but I live on the top
of a bloody great hill :-)

Tanner-'op


Mind the lightning then!...

Remember the 30 / 30 rule..

Inside when the flash to bang is less than 30 seconds .. and outside
30 mins after the last flash..

Tony,

That rule is no fun, I love a good thunderstorm and will stay outside to
watch until the rain starts to fall rather heavily and I've been doing that
ever since I was a small nipper - great stuff :-)

Tanner-'op