What ? No Armageddon ??

[T00ts]

It's LOOKED like it's going to piss down any minute for about two days now. It's dark as hell, but it's just drizzle. There is about a decade's supply overhead and not falling.

Just be grateful JoG if it all tipped down at once it would just get wasted and anyway why should you have it all? It's probably a socialist sky and going to dump it on the needy.   

ps It's just started to throw it down here! It must the be the social housing over the way! The birds are very happy - wings aloft while standing on a neighbours roof having a great shower.

[johnofgwent]

What worries me is the perceived need to give constant warnings. Don't parents/grandparents pass on information any longer? I grew up being told that after a heatwave there was usually a thunderstorm and lots of rain. I was always reminded that rain after a hot day would leave the tarmac like a skidpan - I still remind my kids. I did it yesterday. Do the powers that be just like to prove they are worth their extortionate fees or are they simply assuming that the country is made up entirely of infants. No wonder people never grow up or take responsibility.

It's LOOKED like it's going to piss down any minute for about two days now. It's dark as hell, but it's just drizzle. There is about a decade's supply overhead and not falling.

[T00ts]

It's like they actually want it to happen so they can say told you so.

What worries me is the perceived need to give constant warnings. Don't parents/grandparents pass on information any longer? I grew up being told that after a heatwave there was usually a thunderstorm and lots of rain. I was always reminded that rain after a hot day would leave the tarmac like a skidpan - I still remind my kids. I did it yesterday. Do the powers that be just like to prove they are worth their extortionate fees or are they simply assuming that the country is made up entirely of infants. No wonder people never grow up or take responsibility.

[Nick]

another media damp squib

It's like they actually want it to happen so they can say told you so. 

[cromwell]

Yesterday the 6am radio news and weather told me to get my scuba gear ready as I was about to be inundated.

And indeed by 8am ....

No. By 8am the sickly excuse for clouds that hung depressingly in the skies over JoG Towers released a piss poor attempt at a damp, fine mist of water droplets that could not actually be arsed to coalesce into something solid enough to fall. For hours this damp, depressing must of Brownian motion hung in the air, blown around by the wind which itself couldn't be arsed to get above Beaufort scale two. The worst it did was coated the lawn and roads in a greasy patina making both a death trap aka n to an ice rink.

Having said that, I was pleasantly entertained by the fact several deliveroo e-bike wheelie merchants and about half a dozen e scooters came a total cropper up the road.

Best of all was the wanker entertaining himself with a GoPro wheelieing up the middle of the main road so as to avail himself of the new highway code to piss off the long  queue of motorists stuck behind him unable to pass.

He lost control and piled his bike into the back of a council recycling truck upon which he promptly fell off sideways and smacked his unhelmeted head on a lamp post.

God, how those he had trapped  behind him laughed.

Actually we stopped, not to assist but to wind down our windows in order to laugh, and then drove on.

I really should get the dash cam working...

another media damp squib

[johnofgwent]

Yesterday the 6am radio news and weather told me to get my scuba gear ready as I was about to be inundated.

And indeed by 8am ....

No. By 8am the sickly excuse for clouds that hung depressingly in the skies over JoG Towers released a piss poor attempt at a damp, fine mist of water droplets that could not actually be arsed to coalesce into something solid enough to fall. For hours this damp, depressing must of Brownian motion hung in the air, blown around by the wind which itself couldn't be arsed to get above Beaufort scale two. The worst it did was coated the lawn and roads in a greasy patina making both a death trap aka n to an ice rink.

Having said that, I was pleasantly entertained by the fact several deliveroo e-bike wheelie merchants and about half a dozen e scooters came a total cropper up the road.

Best of all was the wanker entertaining himself with a GoPro wheelieing up the middle of the main road so as to avail himself of the new highway code to piss off the long  queue of motorists stuck behind him unable to pass.

He lost control and piled his bike into the back of a council recycling truck upon which he promptly fell off sideways and smacked his unhelmeted head on a lamp post.

God, how those he had trapped  behind him laughed.

Actually we stopped, not to assist but to wind down our windows in order to laugh, and then drove on.

I really should get the dash cam working...