Rant number 254
Today was warm and sunny, with just a teensy bit of cloud. Fair enough, it did darken throughout the day, but I still thought it was going to be a relatively balmy evening. I even had to briefly shut the blinds at work - to prevent being blinded by the bright sun.
On travelling home, the sky did open a little however, when I got home it had almost stopped and was just having a bit of a drizzle.
That's fine. I'm a British person - a bit of rain never hurt me.
Except, as soon as I left my house an hour later - the rain had become a downpour.
I swear it was like the entire sky had taken a diuretic and was just determined to soak me through to the skin. It also made driving to band an interesting experience! The M62 - a motorway not notorious for draining well went from wet road to practically swimming pool. My windscreen washers too completely outclassed and outgunned by the downpour.
I just don't understand how quite such bloody rain can fall in one day! It was practically biblical. The rain - which eased off during band, also started again - just as I was leaving! Meaning I had to repeat the experience - with the added dampness of having walked to my car.
It was like having a bucket dumped on you!
Rant over.
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Saturday, 7 July 2012
Rant 189 7/7/12 Subject: Floods
Rant number 189
Everything tends to come to a surprise to this country. We can't deal with snow when it comes, we can't deal with the heat. One thing we think we know though, is the rain.
We get a lot of it after all. Within 365 days, we get around 364.5 days of rain. I like to think of the uk as some kind of rain reservation.
With that in mind, you would think that we could deal with the rain and it's respective consequences.
We bloody can't though.
Time and time again, the rivers burst, flooding one place or another, it really is rubbish. It costs the government, councils and individual people time and money. Flooding is shit.
Why does the rain have to get so bloody carried away? There's only a finite amount of water around, why is it in such a rush to all fall down so quickly!
It really does annoy me.
Rant over.
Everything tends to come to a surprise to this country. We can't deal with snow when it comes, we can't deal with the heat. One thing we think we know though, is the rain.
We get a lot of it after all. Within 365 days, we get around 364.5 days of rain. I like to think of the uk as some kind of rain reservation.
With that in mind, you would think that we could deal with the rain and it's respective consequences.
We bloody can't though.
Time and time again, the rivers burst, flooding one place or another, it really is rubbish. It costs the government, councils and individual people time and money. Flooding is shit.
Why does the rain have to get so bloody carried away? There's only a finite amount of water around, why is it in such a rush to all fall down so quickly!
It really does annoy me.
Rant over.
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