miserable pissy rain

there's at least a couple of flash-floods every year in london when the summer rains first come, often including negative effect on the underground -- this going back as long as i've lived here: bcz the storms drains as they are can't handle the sudden flow and back up and the water needs to go somewhere and in some places there's a lot of handy holes and in others not so much (holes can't take it)

this was worse in that it was in unexpected places -- and is at the front of our minds for obvious reasons and we all get to see the social-media clips -- but the basic london problem here is not at all new, it's old and seemingly untackled, certainlt unre-tackled with a view to the threats of the future

is there even the ghost of the notion of a larger longer-term joined-up project? maybe yes and only wonks are chatting abt it in obscurity? someone must have written this (perhaps i should go search) but i've never read anything comprehensive on the state of the physical infrastructure to tackle this issue even in ordinary years (if we will even be gettging "ordinary" years ever again). a fvckton of street restructuring goes on all the time but it's notoriously unco-ordinated -- the same street dug up three times in a row for different reasons, instead of tackling everything in one go -- and that's just maintenance

AIUI there is a Mayoral target for area of sustainable urban drainage (SUDs) which in theory gets included in new developments etc, but I've no idea how far it goes towards addressing the current or future issue.

tfw yr advised "sadiq is on it!" :|

(cheers tim, i confess i did no research work at all before posting)

Just been looking at an elevation map of Hebden Bridge and am aware of how steep some of the paths are but didn't realise that some of the parts where I used to go walking are 800ft + higher than the parts of the town that frequently get flooded.

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives.

I think Calzino's first video post ('Flooding in East London gets out of control') is actually my street (in Walthamstow).

does the same red car appear in both? Like there's a red car taht appears in 2 different videos I saw yesterday and isn't on the street I was referring to. Not sure where around Walthamstow it would have been though. May be a different acr but I think it looked similar

‘Hey, there’s a red car in the fountain’.

bump

lovin it

welp

It took two attempts to get Widget outside for ones and twos this morning. Whippets HATE rain.

Woody still hasn't gone. Raced outside the second I opened the door and turned right back around. Confused. Disappointed.

Widget was enticed out by his friend Mabel the cockapoo also going about her business across the street. We are now safe to go out for the BIG WALK (get the bus to Little Venice, walk the canal back to Kings Cross).

jesus. it woke me up at 3, it's now 4 and has just been solid that entire time.

Yeah I sleep in the loft and it was just hammering down.

i like that sound (when i'm inside and in bed): i sleep better

Lots of lake-style puddles this morning!

Got woken up at 1am to investigate water dripping on my wife & toddler's bed. A hopefully minor and easily fixable leak from our roof window.

my work is semi flooded, we have all been moved to the back of the building.

Just went from light-to-moderate miserable pissy rain to heavy rain. Looks like I got indoors just in time. Jeans are still soaked though.

with rain, that is

miserable pissy sandstorm turning the sky yellow this morning

The sky has been such a weird color in London!

(colour) 8)

it's spooky yet gorgeous

what this year needs is a miserable pissy fall of fish tbrr

miserable piscine rain

miserable pissy snow

Didn’t experience the sleet/snow in London but the wind is no fucking joke today

Perfect weather for an ILB FAP, outdoors of course.

Minnesota's fully in "Winter, 1st Encore" for the foreseeable future.

Perfect weather for an ILB FAP, outdoors of course.

miserable pissy Jubliee

rainy joobs

soggy gammons

the colours will be running
ON YOUR SUPERMARKET BUNTING

wimbledon fortnight started 3.5 hours ago

yay!

Maybe tomorrow afternoon where I live. The ground is so dry it's just going to roll straight off.

Pissing down here in Edinburgh, as usual

koogs where are you yaying from?

oh wait i just got a faceful of petrichor, it has quietly rained a little here also

yay from w12.

the reality is it was enough to wet the roads and there was some thunder but that was about it. it also made me close the windows so now urgh, muggy

Yeah this is it, you need the storm as well otherwise it’s just muggy af :( looking at lightningmaps with some envy of Italy rn

i will never close the window

could really use some of this in Austin, TX. we've had pretty much zero rain for the past couple months.

Maybe tomorrow afternoon where I live. The ground is so dry it's just going to roll straight off.

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Let it roll to me, I'll take it!

I split my time between Atlanta and Los Angeles. Atlanta has had a ton of rain, and lots of electrical activity. Los Angeles is drying up.

met office said: 50-60% chance of heavy rain. Threw caution to the wind and went out in a t-shirt twice today and disappointingly didn't get rained on either time, despite the ominously stormy looking skies that delivered nothing.

I am not miserable anymore