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?

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[fluterbev.livejournal.com]

It's cold and wet here on the Lancashire coast, but no worse than our usual cold and wet! It's a massive contrast, though, with the blazing hot temperatures of last weekend. My house was like an oven on Sunday, but now I am tempted to put on the heating!

My kids are heading off to Sheffield later with their dad - I will assume all is well with them, since they live at the top of a steep hill...

[gillyp.livejournal.com]

Well most of Sheffield is either up or down a steep hill (o: We're up high too, so it's not a problem, but the roads are almost impassable; just raging rivers - water is pouring off the moors and the River Don is just scary! It's safely confined in a gorge here, but I can see how it must be causing trouble further downstream. You can hear the water roaring miles from the river itself O:!

Is it cold over there? It's very sticky and tropical here. I keep wanting to check my secret places for leeches. (o:

Whereabouts in Sheffield are your boys?