Shoutbox

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Originally posted by MenthiX
Yay, free swimming pool

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with viruses in it that could kill you!!!! its a winning combination!

Lots of drains are blocked up around Doncaster which has been causing flooding problems all day.  I had to drop my car off at the garage this morning which would usually be around a 20 minute round trip.  It actually took an hour due to the conditions.  I think my uni house has flooded too, but since I've just left and wont be living there next semester, I'm not too concerned.

It's turning out to be a great summer so far.

If we get floods here we're fucked.

Flood warning everywhere today. But we have seen little rain here, compared to last week .

It's hot here
31°C at 00:52 (outside of course).

Silly question, but why does it hardly ever flood in Scotland? I mean, okay I live near the sea and it just runs off, but I'm in Oban atm (and yeah it's near the sea too) and even with all the valleys and that none are anywhere near flooded.

And actually, for supposedly being the wet and miserable part of Britain it's not rained here for a few days...

And yet surprisingly there is a ring of sunshine around Wimbledon Haha, it's been raning pretty heavily hear in Manchester but not real 'flooding' tbh. I quite like heavy rain though so I wouldn't mind if it carried on

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
illy question, but why does it hardly ever flood in Scotland?

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Good question maybe our definitions of flooding differ, what the English call a flood you call a puddle

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Originally posted by Mike
It's hot here
31°C at 00:52 (outside of course).

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Same here, if not hotter .

We got flash thunderstorms here last month for like a week. They were pretty hard too, but then, city people less less weather.

Good luck being in the storm and missing school (my 'academic' school ends tomorrow)

Wasn't the UK in a heatwave this time last year?

Oh how I love how our Australian winters have better weather than summer over there...

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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
Silly question, but why does it hardly ever flood in Scotland? I mean, okay I live near the sea and it just runs off, but I'm in Oban atm (and yeah it's near the sea too) and even with all the valleys and that none are anywhere near flooded.

And actually, for supposedly being the wet and miserable part of Britain it's not rained here for a few days...

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something to do with the way the water flows, its been like that for thousands of years and the areas around have changed and adapted to the natural flow of the water, so it only usually goes through certain areas. also im assuming its quite grassy noe? if so then a lot of water gets absorbed there too.

im usually wrong though