Rain, floods and no way home.....

If ever I wanted to own an amphibian vehicle, Friday 20 July 2007 would have been the day. On my way to work it started raining, first a drizzle then the heavens opened. I must admit I have never seen rain come down as hard as it did on Friday. And it seemed that there was no end in sight. I finished work at around 12:30 hoping to make it back home in time to go and see Waldo and Kayla in their end of term Assembly. I was also a bit concerned that our garage would be flooding.

What should have taken me 20 minutes to get home turned out to be a long 2.5 hours. It seemed as if every road leading into our suburb had been flooded. I would turn a corner just to be met with another flooded road. Eventually I spoke to a soldier doing traffic duty outside the Arborfield Garrison and he suggested that I take a detour through Eversley to get home.

It seemed as if everyone took this option as there were extremely long queues on the roads. I wasn't surprised at all when I got to Eversley to find that the road there too had been flooded, but at this stage I was so fed up I thought, what the hell...... I held my breath and drove through the water, which now looked more like a lake.

Good old Mazda just kept going and got me through just as I hoped it would. This meant that I was now well on my way home.

I missed the assembly but at least I was able to get home without being to water logged.

The reports said we received the equivalent of a month's rain in one day. A lot of areas were really badly hit by flooding and a lot of people had to be evacuated. As it is still raining they have issued another flood warning for this evening.... we will have to wait and see what happens ....