The torrential rainforest-style rain of the the last two days seems to have come to an end, for now at least. Apparently it was the tail-end of Hurricane Alex (presumably the first one to have been named this year?). It's now back to bright-ish sunshine. And no doubt another muggy night.
Unsurprisingly, The River Ouse is is doing what it does best: it's up. Some flooding around the place, all the floodgates have been closed, and it looks to still be rising somewhat. Fun for those of us who live on higher ground, not so much fun for people who live by the river (eg bridge-trolls). Also not much good for the pleasure boat operators who find that they cannot get their boats safely under some of the lower bridges anymore. Or maybe they stop because the river is moving faster than normal. Or a combination of the two.
The biggest problem caused by the flooding is that it increases my lunchtime journey to get a sandwich by approximately a minute. I'm not made of time you know!
Respec to you if you understand the title of this post.
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The other issue is that the tour operators can't safely park their boats where people can get on them. (look at the nice new one they've built, it's under atleast 3ft of water) And it's no point wasting boat-fuel going up and down the river empty.
My guess in your email box
Respec to the Aimster! (well done)
Google makes that sort of thing too easy. I wouldn't have got it on my own though.
Unfortunately, although it was the "tail end" of the hurricane, it was also dragging the rest of the hurrican hehind, in the form of a vast area of low pressure! Execllent, so more rain to come, and probably more flooding.
Title was amusing, but too old for me to have ever got it. Sorry.
too old?
Wow. I need to go check myself for wrinkles.
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