It got very dark, there were rumblings about the clouds above ..... one or two large raindrops hit the ground .... the cat ran in......
Within a few minutes the rain was like a curtain of water, the thunder did what it wanted to do and the lightening kept giving us a quick flash .....
Outside our frontage the road quickly filled with water although both PJ, and the neighbour, across the road had been out first thing and cleared the drains of the debris brought down during the night's downpour.
The vehicles kept coming down the hill and hitting the water ..... soon slowed them down .... just the occasional nutter not reading the road ..... at least the majority had their lights switched on!
The flooding increased and pavements both sides of the road disappeared, I think there was more water coming INTO our gardens than running out.
It was a good job that our next door neighbour was out, his driveway was taking a hit....... possibly his back driveway as well!!
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And then the rain stopped, peace was restored and............. within four minutes it was as though it had never happened!!!
I went out to see the damage in our back garden ..... flooded as expected ....
.... and the garage ....
..... at least the water was running under the garage door and out into the roadway.
Oh! to be in England now that Spring is here!
I misquote Robert Browning deliberately, he missed the fun .......
Glad you didn't suffer any damage Christine, after the glorious thunder and lightning display in the early hours of Sunday Morning (which I slept through..!!) the day way peaceful until mid afternoon when the heavens opened and the rain came like I had never seen before. Managed to control the amount of water coming through the back door and clean up all the debris washed down from the guttering. Not checked to see if the guttering is still in tack yet!!
ReplyDeleteHappy Bank Holiday Monday... Tracey x