Re: Row, row, row your boat....

On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:46:07 GMT, Stuart Rogers
<stuart.rogers.clara.co.uk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On 22/7/07 12:59, "Steve Criddle" wrote:
>> I believe it was Stuart Rogers who once wrote:
>> 
>> ~ Apparently much of southern England's been getting a right good
>> ~ pissing on:
>> ~ 
>> ~ See what happens when the weather bunny goes on leave for a week?
>> ~ 
>> ~ Stuart, nice and sunny day here in Exeter.
>> 
>> Never seemed to reach us here in Folkestone.  Both yesterday and
>> Friday were forecast as heavy rain but we didn't seem to get any.
>
>Exeter's been largely rain free - the only bit I came across
>was when I was driving past Bristol on the M5 last Tuesday.  (80
>miles north oe Exeter.)  It was absolutely bucketting down.  No
>matter, the Gordano Services were only a couple of miles away -
>I could wait out the storm there.  By the time I reached the
>services the rain had gone, so I decided to press on instead.
>Big mistake.  Less than a minute after passing the junction, we
>got dumped on big time.  There was no atmosphere as such, just a
>vertical sea with slots.  I could barely see the vehicle in front,
>and I found myself aquaplaning a couple of times.  I've driven in
>heavy rain many times, but this was the first time I could say it
>was truly frightening.
>
>Stuart, big scaredy-bunny


Gotta' sister-in-law in Cheltenham and another one just outside
Tewkesbury.  Both are being affected by flooding.  If you could pull
some bunniness to give 'em some relief, we'd all be ever so grateful
....


Odd