Well that was fun!
Fozzie - 28/7/06 at 09:03 AM
At long last after many promises, the storms and rain came yesterday evening!
Talk about all at once! 
for a while it was manic, but thanks to a touch of garden irrigation a couple of years ago, we fared better than our
neighbours.
The house is on a 'down' slope from the road, so it was gushing toward the house at a rate of knots!
Never mind the house, the fozzmobile is kept in the integral garage ....
Water seeping 3 feet into garage, tools everywhere (fitting a nice base for Tritons seat) 
Thankfully she is well, and none the worst for her ordeal. 
The house? Ah, well that's fine too, just soggy carpets at the back and front doors and a touch and go situation with the laminate flooring,
could have been so much worse if we hadn't taken the necessary steps in the front garden.......
BBC linky
Fozzie 
ned - 28/7/06 at 09:15 AM
glad to hear you and the fozmobile survived and hope the tools were well oiled, nothing worse than a rusty tool!
Fozzie - 28/7/06 at 09:34 AM
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Originally posted by ned
glad to hear you and the fozmobile survived and hope the tools were well oiled, nothing worse than a rusty tool!
You are so right Ned! 
nowt worse than a rusty tool!
Never mind the house! The garage took priority
Needless to say clearing the garage floor of tools once the water started seeping through was paramount.
Luckily as there was only one job on the 'go' (seat base), there were only a few scattered around along with the new fixings...
Now the water has cleared, the dehumidifier is gainfully employed
Fozzie
chockymonster - 28/7/06 at 09:35 AM
So that explains why I leave london in glorious sunshine after going to the pub and it takes me 3 hours to get back to Andover. Pfft, slightest drip
of rain and the country falls apart 
Fozzie - 28/7/06 at 09:47 AM
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Originally posted by chockymonster
So that explains why I leave london in glorious sunshine after going to the pub and it takes me 3 hours to get back to Andover. Pfft, slightest drip
of rain and the country falls apart
Yup..I don't know if you went by road or rail, but if it was by road, then there was a major accident on M25 clockwise J10-11 (toward M3) and
they had to close the motorway at that stretch for a few hours, which had a bad 'knock-on' effect on the A3.So surrounding local roads were
severely affected along with the torrential rain/storm at the same time!
One minute sweltering heat, blue skies, the next, lightening, thunder and torrential rain, which usually means accidents...
All in all....total chaos around these parts for a few hours...
Fozzie
chockymonster - 28/7/06 at 09:49 AM
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Originally posted by Fozzie
Yup..I don't know if you went by road or rail,
Rail, which meant the lines got slippy and the trains had the wrong type of wheels on or something
Fozzie - 28/7/06 at 09:54 AM
Ah..that explains it then The trains had their summer flip-flops on, instead of their welly-boots.....
Fozzie
ned - 28/7/06 at 09:59 AM
talking of trains, the best excuse i heard once was that the delay was due to the wrong type of clouds!
allegedly the door opening mechanism was controlled by gps so it knew when it was in a station and the cloud cover was blocking the signal and the
door overrides were broken so the trains doors wouldn't open and so couldn't let people on or off.
turned out this was wrong and the announcer had misunderstood the nature of the problem
made me laugh though
[Edited on 28/7/06 by ned]
brynhamlet - 28/7/06 at 10:45 AM
Did it rain in London, I didn't think it ever did. It was still sunny when I got my normal 5-20pm home.
Heck of a site cooler this morning though.
p.s. we had it 2-00am the night before, along with thunder and lightning for about an hour and a half.
Fozzie - 28/7/06 at 11:00 AM
I don't know about rain in London Bryn, I am in Surrey although some would say on the outskirts of London, South West, very near Kingston upon
Thames, and Heathrow, so, inside of the M25.
I can confirm though, that at 5.30pm, it was also blue skies and sunshine here in Walton on Thames........by 6pm a very different story...
This morning you would not believe that we had the deluge of last evening, but I must say it was most wanted, but would rather it hadn't come
down in such a torrent all at once...but hey ho.......
Fozzie
Jasper - 28/7/06 at 11:16 AM
Glad you're ok
We sat out on our deck and watched the amazing forked lightening over the sea for an hour - very nice
ned - 28/7/06 at 11:19 AM
i saw some sheet lightening out of the window whilst surfing the web last night, twas north of guildford so most probably hovering around fozzies
area! there was a good few seconds between the lightening and thunder so it was a few miles away.
Fozzie - 28/7/06 at 11:20 AM
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Originally posted by Jasper
Glad you're ok
We sat out on our deck and watched the amazing forked lightening over the sea for an hour - very nice
Thanks Jasper....
I must say when I lived in Hastings for a while, my most favourite thing was to watch the storms out at sea, a wonderful spectacle indeed....
Fozzie
Yes Ned, it was right overhead.. totally awesome to watch and hear......
[Edited on 28/7/06 by Fozzie]
theconrodkid - 28/7/06 at 11:25 AM
glad your both ok and dinnt have to take to the life boats.
mustva been bad here,Jo was watching telly and a frog came through the back door and joined her
(i did point out later it may have been a handsome prince after he went out again)
millenniumtree - 28/7/06 at 12:02 PM
Odd, but the exact same thing happened here in Wisconsin yesterday. Beautiful, sunny, then right around lunch time, a huge cloud bank came in and
pissed down rain.
The roads were 3 feet deep in places, flooding everywhere. Thankfully, the house didn't get much of it, or if it did, it had all drained by the
time I made it home.
Mosquitos are out in force now though. They like the wet.