Mighty rains

[bunn]

Did anyone else get the mighty rains on Weds or was it just us?  We had a lot.  I didn't realise how much till I ventured out in a lull in the evening and realised how much tarmac had been washed away on the roads.  We are going to be back to unsurfaced roads down here if this sort of thing  keeps up for the rest of the summer...

I walked along the Lynher,which is normally a clear stream about 6 inches deep, suitable for the cooling of a greyhound's toes.  It was about 3 foot deeper than normal, and running very fast - a river of angry chocolate with creamy wave topping.   We had to turn back, rather than do the normal circular walk, because the angry chocolate had eaten the path.

Today the sun came back briefly, but she has now left again and more rain is falling. I'm glad we are high up on the valley's sides.  I bet the people down on the Tamar have all their sandbags out.

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[tena524.livejournal.com]

Must be just you

We were away a couple of weekends back (grandchild turning 2), and came home to what appeared to be a newly raked road (our street is what may be charitably described as 'semi-paved'). Pot holes filled in, 'corduroy' evened out, looked better than it had is at least a year. Then our next-door neighbor tells us, it's all due to a storm that Sunday afternoon, picking up all the loose gravel and depositing it where it would do some good.

Ironically, the city came in last week and worked on the road...

[chainmailmaiden]

We had quite heavy rain, but nothing as bad as that. I was just please to not have to go out and water the garden, though it has made the grass grow at an alarming rate and now I'll have to mow it again this weekend :-(

[bunn.livejournal.com]

What a well behaved storm! Ours was more inclined to tear off chunks of tarmac and rocks and strew them all over the place. Perhaps we should have semipaved roads, they might be less prone to being washed away.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Oh don't our grass is way out of hand.

Though one of the prettier remnants of the rain was that some of the grassy pits and trenches on the hill filled right up with very clear water and looked gorgeous with the sun on them the next day.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh don't our grass is way out of hand.

So is ours. And so is our clover. And our dandelions. And every other s*dding thing in the lawn.