Biblical deluge

[panik]

Is everyone in the UK OK? Did anyone get washed into the sea?

Man!

I can't remember ever seeing rain like that in these latitudes before. Sheets and sheets of it, hour after hour. We're OK up here, on a moor, 1000 feet above SL but I believe most of South Yorkshire is in a bad way. They're sandbagging houses over where my relatives live in Chapeltown and Ecclesfield and much of Sheffield is under water.

How about the rest of you?

Comments

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

That's awful! I hope there were no fatalities!

I woke up to no water at all coming out of the taps!!! The town has been cleaning out pipes and drains and I guess they broke something at the filtration plant. The town told me it might not be fixed until tonight!

The worst for me is no toilet flushing. Ick. And our dauther and son in law are coming today for the weekend. Always such excellent timing. Sheesh.

I lined up at the drug store at 9 a.m. and got two 18.5 litre containers of drinking water. When I got back, there was enough water coming out of the taps to fills some buckets and basins for flushing and washing.

Keep your fingers crossed for me that it'll stay on and I'll keep my fingers crossed for South Yorkshire, that no one is hurt!

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

I don't think anyone's been hurt but cars have been washed away and 40 people are cut off, stuck on the roof of a factory in Sutton Coldfield.

Sorry you have no water, that's always a horror. Having lived on water rationing; 3 buckets per household per day - I know what that's like. Not nice (o:

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

I hope those people get rescued soon!!!

The water is still back on, if not up to the usual pressure. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed, though!

I can live without a lot of modern conveniences, but water is the one I find the hardest to do without!