It's been a fairly pleasant day, even though I've been at work since 8.30a.m with sun and variable cloud, and fairly warm. However, Andrea and I popped out after work in pleasant sunshine, no coats or brollies, then it began to rain, then hailstone, then thunder and lightning - worse and worse and worse and when we drove back UP the steep hill, we had to drive through a torrent of water - very scary!! - all of the drains and manhole covers had been forced off and the water literally shot up out of the road!! We had to drive around the debris and thought we'd never get home. We even saw in some places the tarmac on the road had just cracked open. We got home safely, to find that the electricity had gone off and most of alarms in the houses round about were ringing merrily away. Thankfully, the storm passed and as I write this note, the sun is shining once more - let's hope it stays that way. Roll om our summer holiday to Italy on Sunday - we're hoping for hot sunny dry days!! We saw on the news that various places in the UK had been hit with flash floods, even some of the people who had suffered terrible floods only weeks ago have been flooded again - what a topsy turvy summer this is turning out to be. Andrea took these pictures, one is of the street and one of the neighbours over the road.
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Wait a second... didn't you get nasty destructive rain all through June? Where's the justice in nasty rain like that in July? Did it damage any of your garden?
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