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  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,971
    It’s back here again in Farningham. Hens not best pleased.
    Yeah.......storm no 2 in swanley. Very very very heavy rain. I'd say worse that at Yeovil to give it context. 
    Spent a couple of hours diverting rising water from our neighbour’s farm. They live opposite us (and we’re slightly higher). All  the water the runs off the fields into the lane and goes into theirs. The lane was flooded but people were still driving fast sending waves towards the farmhouse. In the end I stood in the middle of the road waving people to slow down which they all did (except one)  some offering to help. There used to be ditches each side of the road to help drain the water away but they get blocked up  despite us shovelling the silt out. Apparently the council are coming to look at the drains in August!
    Had quite a bit of rain in Farningham over the last hour. Drains not coping with it so any more and we'll have a repeat of last time for the neighbours. We've got a load of sandbags ready in case it comes over the road to us. :neutral:
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    edited July 2021
    Biblical again over the isle of Wight during the night. This was a mile and a half from me on Sunday evening. Mercifully we are ok so far despite enormous thunderstorm through Monday night too. 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,845
    Last nigh, driving home from Southend to Romford way, massive sheet lightning storm and torrential rain. At least 30 lightning flashes. Could hear any thunder though. Only time not been bothered by the 50mph average speed limit on the A127 as no one could drive that fast and massive puddles throwing water over the other side of central reservation barriers as you drove along 
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Came right over Chelmsford, missed the heavy rain by minutes on way back from pub.but was pretty spectacular
  • cfgs
    cfgs Posts: 11,476
    I was out on the fire engine last night putting out a shed and hedge that was on fire, mad that the air was basically a waterfall but things were Still burning in it.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,842
    MrOneLung said:
    Last nigh, driving home from Southend to Romford way, massive sheet lightning storm and torrential rain. At least 30 lightning flashes. Could hear any thunder though. Only time not been bothered by the 50mph average speed limit on the A127 as no one could drive that fast and massive puddles throwing water over the other side of central reservation barriers as you drove along 
    Driving along the A2 from Falconwood to Dartford on Saturday evening was horrendous too. The storms were all east of London, with most of London just getting some drizzle!
  • Daddy_Pig
    Daddy_Pig Posts: 496
    Was woodland camping on the Suffolk coast. Moved directly overhead. The tent was illuminating a couple of times every minute and the thunder was almost immediate. Admit that I went and sat in the car 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,845
    Pretty intense at moment!! 
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    Less about you and Mrs Onelung what about the thunderstorm?
  • The last three months’ rain is here
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  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,668
    Was looking for an excuse not to cut the grass today. 
    Think I've found it.
  • Daddy_Pig said:
    Was woodland camping on the Suffolk coast. Moved directly overhead. The tent was illuminating a couple of times every minute and the thunder was almost immediate. Admit that I went and sat in the car 
    Why ‘admit’ ?. Isn’t that the sensible thing to do and staying in a tent with an overhead storm the dumbest thing to do ? Or have I got that wrong ?
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Hasn't arrived in this part of Maidstone yet.
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,715
    I still get excited by a big storm
  • BigRedEvil
    BigRedEvil Posts: 11,069
    Pissing it down non stop in Orpington
  • MarcusH26
    MarcusH26 Posts: 8,030
    Huge storm over the Sussex coast from about 3am until about 5:30 , seemed like it was close too 
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,845
    Massive amount of lightning and thunder for a good two hours Romford way. 
  • Visibility on the A2 from Swanscombe to Bexleyheath was fun today. 
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    edited August 2022
    Was looking for an excuse not to cut the grass today. 
    Think I've found it.
    You have grass … wow 

    I mowed mine the other day and it was equivalent of a baldy going to the barber for a haircut
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,559
    MarcusH26 said:
    Huge storm over the Sussex coast from about 3am until about 5:30 , seemed like it was close too 
    The lightening woke me just after 3am but I didn’t hear any thunder and went straight back to sleep. 
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  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,845
    Some of the thunder was as loud as I have ever heard. 
  • Very wet in Charlton...
  • Rylo
    Rylo Posts: 860
    Very wet in Charlton...

  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Have had a little light rain in Maidstone now but not enough to do any good. It seems to be avoiding some parts of Kent.
  • Big_Bad_World
    Big_Bad_World Posts: 5,859
    Tories can't even get a fair thunderstorm right.
  • Glovepup
    Glovepup Posts: 1,743
    Have had a little light rain in Maidstone now but not enough to do any good. It seems to be avoiding some parts of Kent.
    Yes. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,961
    Been chucking down in Berkshire since about 5am, only now reduced from heavy to steady
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Have had a little light rain in Maidstone now but not enough to do any good. It seems to be avoiding some parts of Kent.
    Goes to show how regionalised it is. I am in Mereworth about 8 miles from Maidstone as the crow flies and we had a bad thunderstorm in the night and it has been raining heavily since I got up. The garden is soaked and had a good drink.
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    i was woken just after 5 by the thunder in bexleyheath, still raining but like IdleHans has in Berkshire, gone from heavy to steady 
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,845
    The last three months’ rain is here
    Of course it is, was nailed on to piss down today - first day of my time off work!