[fal308]

Hope none of you guys were negatively affected by the flooding.

[dave-r]

It was up to my knees trying to get to the car last night after work. I knew the car was safe but finding a way to get to it so I could go home was the tricky bit. I ended up wading knee deep along a footpath and then had to jaywalk across a busy 4 lane road.

The rain was not as heavy as the other two times this year. It just never stopped for two days and the ground was already fully waterlogged.

It is starting to pass over now at last.

[Adrian Worman]

My mates down the south coast are really struggling, especially Cornwall, houses flooded, hotels are being used as emergency accommodation etc. we don't deal with our drainage and storage of water very well in the UK

[dave-r]

Here are a few photos I took from my phone on my way to the car last night. And one this morning on my way back into work after the water levels had dropped a few feet.

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set= ... 40dac7997c

[dave-r]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/envi ... 2112750710

[fal308]

I see the reporters in the UK are as asinine as they are here in the USA. Can't access Facebutt here at work but will check it out when I get home in the morning.
Sorry to hear bout the problems but glad your spirits aren't dampened (had to inject some ironic humor)

[dave-r]

Part of the British outlook on life is the worse things get the more we joke about it and carry on.

[drewcrane]

Part of the British outlook on life is the worse things get the more we joke about it and carry on.

Perhaps we all should adapt the English way

[dave-r]

The really good news is I finally got my shoes dried out enough to wear this morning.

[drewcrane]

The really good news is I finally got my shoes dried out enough to wear this morning.

I wonder do you only own one pair of shoes?

[fal308]

at least it's not his underwear!!!

[dave-r]

I wonder do you only own one pair of shoes?

Basically yes. I only have one pair I wear most of the time.

I need a shoe I can work in all day without aching feet and worrying about scuffing them.
Because I run around a lot at work and am often working up ladders or (more often) on my knees, they have to be very comfortable but hard wearing.
But they look like good casual shoes so I wear them all the time at home to. Not in the house of course. Just going out. But if I have to dress up I have two pair of dress shoes.

My shoe of choice is this one;
http://www.ecco-shoes.co.uk/shop/mens-s ... iltern.php

As you can see they are not cheap. But they do last a year. Gortex lined leather. Thick soft but hard wearing sole. Then, when the heels have worn down, they become my "garage shoes" and get really scruffy. The worn out garage pair is the ones I had to wear on Tuesday.

They are really nice shoes that are easy to wear. But only water proof to a point. 20-inches of freezing cold rain water was pushing it too far.

[christer]

The really good news is I finally got my shoes dried out enough to wear this morning.

No flooding in Dave´s shoes then. That´s a relief.

[drewcrane]

Yes those look like some nice durable shoes.........you should get these

http://www.cabelas.com/mens-fishing-wad ... 3600703111

[dave-r]

I would have killed for those Monday night.

[drewcrane]

I would have killed for those Monday night.

I AM almost ready to kill for a drop of rain or a snowflake or two

[dave-r]

I would have killed for those Monday night.

I AM almost ready to kill for a drop of rain or a snowflake or two

Just wring my socks out. That would water your whole yard.

We have a few days of sunshine now. But the payoff is freezing temps in the night and not much above freezing during the day.

England is a funny place when it comes to temperatures. It hardly ever varies more than 30 degrees C over the whole year. Never quite warm enough in the summer but never really that cold in the winter. I guess we are lucky in some respects.

[drewcrane]

I would have killed for those Monday night.

I AM almost ready to kill for a drop of rain or a snowflake or two

Just wring my socks out. That would water your whole yard.

We have a few days of sunshine now. But the payoff is freezing temps in the night and not much above freezing during the day.

England is a funny place when it comes to temperatures. It hardly ever varies more than 30 degrees C over the whole year. Never quite warm enough in the summer but never really that cold in the winter. I guess we are lucky in some respects.

Hey it gives you something to talk about , all we say here is .............weather is great but when are we gonna pay for this drought?

I people in San Diego Cali ,and the average temp is 65 f 18 c year round and have never had a hurricane,

and they get bored with the weather their personalities stagnate day after day of the same old same old

And if I used your socks Dave, Shelby would be out there licking the grass..............

[fal308]

Personally I prefer the seasons. If it was near the same all the time, I would think that would get boring. Of course then I wouldn't have to spend so much on clothing for different times of the year or AC/heat costs etc.

[christer]

Personally I prefer the seasons. If it was near the same all the time, I would think that would get boring.

I agree with that.

[drewcrane]

Personally I prefer the seasons. If it was near the same all the time, I would think that would get boring.

I agree with that.

Oh yea I prefer 4 true seasons ,however things are changing for sure and now I wonder if we will have just 2 seasons hot and cool ,we have a wild fire that has been burning for 2 months now and it flared up this weekend ........we NEED some kind of moisture,something has to change I am very concerned

[dave-r]

Well the world is going to end in less than three weeks anyway so stop bitchin.

[drewcrane]

Well the world is going to end in less than three weeks anyway so stop bitchin.

Oh no there will be harmony, and some one will build an ark ,and we will all be happy and live forever

[burdar]

So are you drying out over there? We had a 500 year flood in my area back in 2008. I've never seen anything like it. The city that got hit hard needed people to inspect houses before letting the owners back in. They needed to make sure the structures were sound enough to have people in them. Since I work for a Lumber Company, I helped inspect homes for a few days. It really looked like a war zone. The military was patroling the area to make sure there weren't any looters. We had to show our identification to get in to certain area. The smell was awful. Most of the homes we inspected needed to be torn down. The flood waters were up to the ceiling in most cases. Foundations were collapsed and wood floors were buckled. When flood waters were getting close to one paticular gas station, the owner had a truck come and drain the tanks. That was a big mistake. The empy tank popped up through the concrete when the water got 6' deep. I've heard estimates of up to 10 years for a full recovery from something of that magnitude.

[dave-r]

There are some people that had only just replaced all their furniture after the last floods and some others that have not been able to move back in since the floods two years ago!

A large block of new apartments had to be demolished when the foundations were washed away earlier this year.