fantasmatical thorr wrote:It was sunny for a couple of hours this morning, the rain has relented a tad but, not for long. Neighbours are hurriedly doing their gardens before the next prolonged downpour. My car seats have dried up slightly. I might fill the holes in the sunroof with superglue or even sellotape as a temporary solution.

If you can get hold of it, aluminium lagging tape will work perfectly for this.

It's sunny as I type this, though there are some ominous looking clouds nearby.

watch out for the chocolate rain.

I don't know what you lot are on about.

Aside from a refreshing shower or two the weather in Newcastle has been quite pleasant


sorry

My Mum's in Oxford with all her possessions on raised surfaces, just sitting waiting for it, nothing to be done...

MrFood wrote:Poor bastard. If this wasn't such a horrible situation for the guy - I might be laughing at the first line of this message.

my house has been flooded due to the floods.

No shit.

A++, would LOL again.

My particular part of West Yorkshire seems to have escaped - it is good, sometimes, not to live by a river. The persistant rain has been a persistant bummer, though, as has been the persistant unwillingness of my friends to retreat to the pub this Sunday. Twats.

Summer finally reached Glasgow today. Sun, Sun, Sun all the way......

WERE IN THE STATES !!!
GETTIN' YOUR CRAPPY WEATHER!111!1

So these are, by some accounts (Channel Four news) the worst floods Britain has had in recorded history. Have you seen what's happened to the fucking Severn?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/6911778.stm

Whatever you do - don't mention global warming!

simmo wrote:Whatever you do - don't mention global warming!

It has struck me that through hours and hours of footage of old people and dogs in boats I have heard hardly a mention of why this might be happening with more and more frequency.

Now I know there is much talk of Global Warming in the press - I'm sure there was some pop concert harping on about it a few weeks ago - but you'd think amongst the hours they have to kill wittering on again and again about the absence of anything happening - beyond the initial storm - they could fill it with some debate about who is primarily responsible for this sort of thing.

That is - large scale industry and - drum roll - ourselves. It'd be instructive to go round all these flood victims and asking how many of them do anything - at all - to try and minimise their carbon footprint. And if not will they now?
And if any of them protest about renewable energy farms (this goes on a lot, I believe, in the South East) and will they continue to do so now?

This would make for interesting telly. Much more interesting than asking someone where they're taking the cute little puppies they're carrying.

Who gives a flying fuck about that?