So what happened to the Drought were having cos the government say on the news
so how come I'm really wet cos of the rain and hail to got me and the thunder and lighting that scared me.
Really loud noises scare that's to the stroke!!!

It's been tipping it down here for two days. Took spare shoes and socks in to work today anticipating being soaked when i got here but it eased off a bit :-). Now waiting to see if it'll stop before I go home...

Have seen some very low levels in reservoirs recently though.

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Peter Eland - Velo Vision publisher

Somehow I managed to cycle to work and back today with no rain. I'm certainly glad not to have to water the allotment. My peas are doing well! :-)

Drought? What Drought? We have Kielder Water to drink before we have a drought. When full it has enough water for every man, woman and child on the planet to flush a standard toilet 13.5 times each. After paying through the nose with water rates to build the damn thing I'm determined to get my money's worth. Just off to flush the toilet again!

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

Seamus, you must have been unlucky enough to get the WRONG type of rain. It is only the lack of wet water that causes droughts.

Steve

Amazing that every time the D word is broadcast ,we get heavy rain.

5 days, including an Olympic sized hailstorm, put me off entering the Marathon.

There was a strange bright yellow thing in the sky this morning so I got a ride in!

Apart from being shockingly unfit and slow the main thing I noticed was that a lot of fields had flooded corners to them and the Carrs, the local name for boggy land, were all more water than land. I also got soaked by a lorry coming the other way running at speed through a huge puddle at just the wrong place! Glug! Glug!

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

For my next trick, now that I am a millioare, I will have contractor dig a resoivior shaped hole next to the rivers that are flooding and a gate that stop the river from hoing where it supposed to.
Not yet, when the summer comes.

The next it is rains, block the gate and divert allthough water into my new resoivior and sold to public for lots and lots of money.

Clever Seamus, but you'd have thought the 'great minds' ruining, sorry running, no, ruining was right, sorry lost the thread I'll start again.

You'd have thought the idiots ruining what used to be my Water Board and those that used to belong to all our readers before the Tories sold them and didn't give me any money for it... pause for breath, start again.

You'd have thought the idiots who stole my Water Board would have thought of that already.


Sorry that took so long.

"I thought of that while riding my bike." --Albert Einstein, on the Theory of Relativity

2007 ICE QNT
2008 Hase Kettwiesel AL27
2011 Catrike Trail.
1951 Engine in need of partial rebuild.

My father used to work for the"Water Board" ans was part of the design team for Rutland Water.

Ther is in fact genuinelythe "wrong type of rain"!

After a dry period the ground is dry. Quick and severe rainfall flows off into the rivers and lies on top of the surface where it evaporates. This does not reach the water table and therefore is not stored and help the drought.

It is only if you get sustained low level rain that soaks through to the water table thatthere will be a real effect.

That's right, three months of drizzle should solve the problem. :-)

I'll bet that someone for the waterboard have that my piece up there and only read that part,

"and sold to public for lots and lots of money."