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    #11
    Near Basingstoke had many roofs and trees perturbed. Hundred of pounds of improvements..

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      #12
      Luckily I had just arrived home from my cycling to the channel tunnel and back.

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        #13
        Yep, we were watching it from inside a pub, with a pint in our hands waiting for our lunch.

        Horizontal hail, thunder and lightening. How we laughed...
        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #14
          There were 2 foot waves on the Gloucester Sharpness Canal, so I am told.

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            #15
            (midlands)
            first was dry, and a bit cloudy.
            then in the space of of 30-40 minutes it was:
            dark clouds, overcast
            really dark clouds,
            lightning (love it).
            hail (but not windy)
            rain
            clouds, but with blue skies peeping out


            Could have done with more lightning and hail. (my little nephews and nieces loved the lightning)

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              #16
              Meanwhile it's coming down like stairods again.

              Have to feel for the farming communities slightly to my north who are completely inundated. As I travelled down yesterday morning, I got a view of the affected area and it's a complete and utter scene of devestation.

              Inneresting article here in the Telgraph by local boy Christopher Booker. In it, he lays the blame squarely at the feet of the Environment Agency who have abandoned their policy of dredging the rivers and rhynes allowing them to become silted up. Why? The dredged silt is a controlled substance and cannot be spread over the fields as before. They were dumping on the banks only for it to get washed back into the rivers again. So they gave up.

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                #17
                Apologies to everyone for this; I was just doing my self-assessment and I think the storm was sent to set the atmosphere...

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                  #18
                  Ah yes I was standing under a tree watching my daughters riding lesson in the pishing rain.
                  She meanwhile was in the indoor arena falling off a horse!
                  The rain was so bad I couldnt tell I was watching the wrong lesson

                  She's ok though, just bruised and got back on the horse.
                  I'm sorry, but I'll make no apologies for this

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                    #19
                    Happened about 4:30pm followed by a 5 hour power cut! Nice.
                    If you think my attitude stinks, you should smell my fingers.

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                      #20
                      It most certainly was an EEK!, GG.

                      A couple of hours before I was out in the pleasant sunshine in shorts practising my Tul, then a sudden 30 minute storm of biblical proportions, then sunshine again.

                      Do you think it was the spirit of Rabbie Burns wafting through the Sassenachs?

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