Travel chaos

[SlipTheJab]

Good job Friday is one of my 2 days WFH

[Intel]

Work? On a Friday?

[WTFH]

Work? On a Friday?

Raising an invoice is work.

[SueEllen]

We had torrential rain, thunderstorms, flash floods and travel disruption oop North on Tuesday and no-one gave a toss on national news. Once the Sarf East is affected, it's a headline-worthy crisis.

That's cos a larger proportion of the UK population live in London and the SE than the North.

[d000hg]

That's cos the people reporting the news live in the SE

FTFY

[NotAllThere]

Post-heatwave storm brings flash floods causing widespread disruption - BBC News

Temperatures here dropped from 30°C to ~20°C, and I was wondering why there were no storms accompanying the sudden change. Now I know where they are.

[LondonManc]

I arrived into London at 6am today on the sleeper train into Paddington. Casually went for some breakfast at the GWR 1st-class lounge knowing my KGX connection wasn't until 7:30 and early morning it only takes 15 min to get across.

Thought I'd check the TFL website to see how frequently the trains were, only to find there was a strike!

Made my connection by about 10 minutes but only because the 20-minute reduced service just happened to arrive as I got on the platform.

It was raining quite a lot too - is this thread about the strike or the weather?

Both, but mainly for those with further to travel; the landslide on the Watford/MK stretch of track was causing cancellations on West Coast mainline.