Thursday rain madness

Did anyone see the rainstorm we had in the North East on Thursday afternoon/evening? I've never seen anything like it before in this country. The roads were knee deep or even waist deep in water. There was all kinds of mayhem. I had to abandon my bus that I was taking back to where my car was parked and walk home instead. It took about an hour and a quarter but some of my friends didn't get home for about 3 or 4 hours. I made it home in time for the Italy v Germany kick off though!

Only just!

Saw it on tv MPC - spectacular or what? Tremendous pic of the lightening hitting the Tyne bridge.

Feel dreadfully sorry for all the people whose properties/cars have been affected.

All I have to moan about from the storm here was the soakaway couldn't cope and washed an area of sand out from under my block paving, so we are thinking of ways round the problem. Very minor in comparison.

The weather is pathetic, considering it's July tomorrow. Can go from dry to very heavy showers in the space of a few seconds, although I doubt it's been as bad as what you had in the NE!