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Rain

It is beginning to suck quite severely. We've not had a day where it did not rain at least a bit since, well must be about the Picnic! I'm not up to BV levels of unhappiness with it yet, but I can see it getting there real soon. I've come in today and shut the blinds as I just don't want to look at it :(

I did find the sensationalist headline on the posters trying to flog todays Evening Standard very amusing though:

"Thames Flooding: Prepare to Flee"

Nothing like panic in the general populous eh?
 
robbieduncan said:
It is beginning to suck quite severely. We've not had a day where it did not rain at least a bit since, well must be about the Picnic!
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Yeah... it occurred to me today that the day of the Picnic was the only day this year that I've worn sandals and not boots. It's almost the end of July ffs and I'm still wearing knee-high boots every day :rolleyes: This time last year it was about 36ºC in my flat!
 
I feel your pain. We have had a lot of flooding in Texas due to excessive raining. The rain here, however, sure beats the heat! :)
 
Blue Velvet said:
<saccharine voice>

But without rain, there would be no rainbows...



Hurl. :D
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*gag*

thats so cheesy its sad.


the grass is always greener, though, you know?
its been a pretty hot summer so far here, with a decent amount of rain too.
and you know its going to rain when the air feels like a wall. blah.
 
As most of our wet & cold weather comes from the North Sea west of us, we are happy to see all the rain falling in the UK.... all those drops falling there can't fall again over here :D

But, eh.. we're having a crappy summer too. :(

Remember last year July? That month was absolutely hot and dry!
 
I know it's no use to the folks overseas and perhaps the folks daan saaf but for the professional northerners and us midlanders here..... don't bother going to meadowhall at the moment. We were there today, pretty much the entire ground floor is closed off 'cause of the floods.
 
I can't wait till late august when the water companies announce the usual annual hosepipe ban. I predict a riot !!
 
Jaffa Cake said:
Well, you guys are rather handy when it comes to dealing with flooding and keeping water at bay and stuff. Feel free to pop over and pitch in, if you like. ;)
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We had to learn it the hard way... ;)

I bet we would to love to give you a hand, mate. The flooding over there is dreadful! :(
 
As soon as I saw this thread I thought of the napping thread you made a year or two ago Blue. It's rather fitting that you made this thread as well.

I LOVE rain.

But I only like being indoors while it's raining.

There is nothing like reading or taking a nap and listening to nice relaxing music while it is raining outside.

Because it does not rain exceedingly often here I treat rainy days/periods at a way of breaking up my outside oriented summer (I skateboard), so they are always welcome.
 
Not a big fan of rain in the summer when I'd prefer it being hot and sunny but then I see the news and all the poor buggers wading through waist high, cold, muddy water trying to save what they can while living in a community centre with no electricity and only bottled water and I figure that at least I'm only getting a little wet when I leave the brolly in the office.

Was quite enjoying the rain tonight though... came out of the gym and didn't have time for a shower before I had to be home (yes, I did have one when I got back!) and the rain was quite refreshing. I think it helped that it was light as opposed to the torrents of Friday though.
 
I love rain and thunderstorms.

Especially a heavy downpour every once and a while. It has been quite nice having rain this month in the Seattle area. Helps keep the heat down but brings out the humidity.
 
iGav said:
Believe me, it's significantly more preferable to having to walk several blocks to a standpipe to obtain your day's drinking water because of the significant drought conditions that the South, particularly the South East has been experiencing for several years now and that would've been reaching crisis point had we experienced another summer like 2005's for example. ;)

Not only do we need this wet summer. We equally need a wet winter too, to even begin to help replenish water stocks.

Pop some wellingtons on, and go and enjoy the puddles... Blue too. :)
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I'd much prefer the UK sort out the ridiculous and ancient water situation. There is no excuse for drought when there's this much rain. Sort out the old systems and get some of that scottish rain in places it's normally a little more dry. Sorted. You don't think Arizona gets green grass from its own precip: 1" per year water supplies? No, it's brought in from other more rainy places. You can't tell me the UK doesn't have enough to go around even for drinking water?
What a joke, the UK in a drought.

Good thing I'm not bitter... and don't take it out on the wrong places. :p
 
I love the rain, but I saw photos of England on the news last night. That's gotta be awful though.

The news mentioned that the weather service had warned the government (cough) Katrina (cough) of heavy flooding and damaged.
 
robbieduncan said:
I did find the sensationalist headline on the posters trying to flog todays Evening Standard very amusing though:

"Thames Flooding: Prepare to Flee"

Nothing like panic in the general populous eh?
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That's so typical of anything Associated Newspapers related. Why can't their building get flooded so they are forced to stop spewing out their shyte for a few days?

I don't mind the rain at all. Quite enjoy it in fact. Keeps everything nice and green (except fields of course, they're all now covered in brown water) :)

Oh yeah, on the water companies thing. The whole of the West end and Bloomsbury has been dug up over the past few months and all our water mains replaced, so they are doing it.
 
iBlue said:
I'd much prefer the UK sort out the ridiculous and ancient water situation.
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Indeed. Along with an urgent need to dredge the rivers, and reconnect the tributaries too.

iBlue said:
There is no excuse for drought when there's this much rain. Sort out the old systems and get some of that scottish rain in places it's normally a little more dry. Sorted.
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Now don't go using common sense girl. That has noooooo place in Blighty. ;)

But do you really think the Scots (or the Welsh for that matter) are going to want to share their water with us? :p Though I'm not entirely sure you'd want to drink it without checking they hadn't pissed in it first. ;) :p

iBlue said:
You can't tell me the UK doesn't have enough to go around even for drinking water?
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The South, and the South East in particular has been in a state of perpetual drought for a decade exacerbated by an ancient infrastructure, low localised annual rainfall and the demand of one of the largest and most densely populated conurbations in the world. You know things are bad when water companies have hose pipe bans in winter for example.

If we experienced another summer like 2003/4/5 for example, then the South East in particular would run the risk of exactly that, because we lack the infrastructure to transport anywhere near the volumes of water needed to service the population of the South East.

iBlue said:
What a joke, the UK in a drought.
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No. Just England. ;)
 
The thing is, we do have the infrastructure already in place to transport large amounts of water across England, at least from the Black Country and East Midlands down. A bit of extra pumping gear installed and it would be perfect.

The Grand Union Canal
 
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