On Jul 20, 7:53 pm, "lawrence jenkins" wrote:
"Gianna" wrote in message

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As one reader of the BBC web site wrote from his 'home' in Tooting ...

"I have never seen rain like it. I have just been in the garden, trying to
get the water out."

Funny people down there in the south.

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Gianna

http://www.buchan-meteo.org.uk
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Actually it became so much like a Cecil B Demille movie around 12:30 (over
cast), that I was just about to break my self-imposed protocol and post
from work in Dulwich SE London. I know human perception is easily fooled
and memories very subjective but I could not recall ever seeing it so dark
and as the deluge followed I suddenly remembered how prone to flooding our
basement was. I rushed downstairs warning all to get prepared for the
ensuing flood as the sewers and drainage system reached full capacity and
believe me they did-mind you not as bad as last June but the three basement
offices are now unusable as the carpets had to be ripped up.

This was our third flood in as many years, I have to say that though that
due to the increasingly rising population in London's suburbs that the old
drainage system just can't process all that increasing run-off coupled
with rising sewer usage.

Why didn't UKMO warn us with red graphics ???????

It was pretty gloomy but I can recall off the top of my
head three instances of real daytime darkness associated with
thunderstorms, 5 Sept 1958, Aug 6(?)1981 and Aug 3 1986. They were
all darker than today, unless Dulwich is truly in the Styx. It didn't
look particularly dark towards London from here.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, NE Surrey, 556 ft.