I've been driving around the UK to various meetings and staying in a mixture of hotels over the last few days. I'm wondering if the wet weather has been following me around the country.
Last Thursday and Friday I was away and a couple of days later the place I stayed was in the news because of the torrential rain, a river burst its bank and part of the area was flooded.
Then I've been staying in another town at the beginning of the week. The hotel was also hosting an unrelated conference of some kind. I was in the coffee bar part of the hotel, blissfully unaware of the unfolding drama. The conference had been cancelled and several of the people in the hotel had been stranded because of other floods in the vicinity.
To be honest, I didn't quite believe what I was overhearing and started to google the local weather forecast and news, when I noticed the boot type footwear that some of the guests were wearing.
I still had a short walk to get to my meeting and realised that some of the area surrounding the hotel had been flooded too.
Fortunately my route was clear and also my subsequent journey home. I think we'd had a whole month's worth of rain in a day. Tomorrow I'm back on the road and after another day or two in the West Midlands I'll be heading to Manchester.
Hopefully, by then, Manchester won't be a source of more rain ;-)
3 comments:
Flooding is Not a Good Thing!! I cannot believe how much rain you have had there---and probably there will be more....Drive Safe, my dear.
It's not raining at the moment, you'd better be quick!
Debra
I hope your Guardian Angel remains with you.
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