Well, what weather..

[Dieselman]

Had to travel into my office today and set off in bright sunshine, but soon that became heavy rain on the motorway.

The first pic is southbound M40 and there are cars in the pic, you just can't see them, the second pic is this afternoon on the return back on the M1, the pictures don't do the lack of visibility justice, you couldn't see anything either way.

While I was in the office in Slough, there was a storm which caused the road to flood. The Police came and closed the road after three vehicles broke down in the water and the power generation plant at the end of the road flooded.
A fire engine was called to pump the generation plant out.

Then the sun came out in fine style...

 

[A-AvantGarde]

That looks horrendous, but like you say it doesn't quite show in the pictures. The road outside our office (Basingstoke) also got closed by the Police due to flooding too, causing massive tailbacks.

 

[gina2201]

Oh dear, weather has been lovely here aaaaalllllllll day!

 

[Colin_b]

Can I just add that the weather in Cumbria (at least the western bit) has been like an average March day. So far....

Colin

 

[Dieselman]

Oh dear, weather has been lovely here aaaaalllllllll day!

Thanks a bunch. Actually I heard on the radio the South West was sunny..

All I got was 250 miles of rain..

 

[Howard]

In Kingston today , the road under the railway bridge on the Richmond Road was flooded to about 6 feet deep ...

There was a 3 series spinning around slowly in the current as the water drained away ...

Made me chuckle ...

Give you an idea of how much rain fell , between 11 and 12 today I opened 5 of our weir gates ... each one lets through 300 million gallons of water a day !! ...

 

[Dieselman]

That looks horrendous, but like you say it doesn't quite show in the pictures. The road outside our office (Basingstoke) also got closed by the Police due to flooding too, causing massive tailbacks.

You could actually feel the car hitting regular patches of standing water on the motorway and we were down to 40MPH at times.

 

[Dieselman]

There was a 3 series spinning around slowly in the current as the water drained away ...

Made me chuckle ...

LOL...

Give you an idea of how much rain fell , between 11 and 12 today I opened 5 of our weir gates ... each one lets through 300 million gallons of water a day !! ...

Supposed to be two months rain falling today...

 

[gurpz]

In Kingston today , the road under the railway bridge on the Richmond Road was flooded to about 6 feet deep ...

There was a 3 series spinning around slowly in the current as the water drained away ...

Made me chuckle ...

I was there aswell today it was a red 5 series estate, i have a picture of it on my phone i will transfer it in a sec and upload it

 

[Howard]

 

[gurpz]

oops i was wrong was a 3 series my picture is from a distance !

 

[SG CL500]

I had to drive about 500 miles yesterday in a round trip to Somerset - rather glad I didn't do that today, it took 10 hours as it was!

 

[crockers]

it has taken my wife 6 hrs plus to travel from oxford to swindon --- usually takes 45 minutes

 

[gurpz]

As said a picture of Kingston today , the road under the railway bridge on the Richmond Road

 

[pammy]

And we've had hardly a drop all day. Did rain a bit earlier this evening - but nothing to write home about

 

[esox]

it has taken my wife 6 hrs plus to travel from oxford to swindon --- usually takes 45 minutes

Would have been quicker on the Lynton Dreams...............

 

[Will]

Very busy around West London/Chiswick/Hammersmith earlier, and very wet in places too.

Huge queues on the A4 eastbound leading up to the Hammersmith Flyover were met with this poor sight halfway down from the Hogarth Roundabout:

The police had closed two out of three lanes and were stopping each vehicle in turn to make sure the wave from each vehicle passing wasn't too much on the stranded car. It doesn't look half as deep in the photo as it did at the time, probably because the water wasn't moving as it did when vehicles were passing, some of the waves lapped well over the bonnet and upto the glass on the doors.

Will

 

[Dieselman]

What posesses these people to drive through water too deep.

I've driven deep water but never got stuck, even though I've flooded the car a couple of times..

Citroens are great for floods...and fooling other drivers...

 

[Will]

I guess money doesn't always = common sense.

Hence thousands of cars made it down the A4 ok, but the poor (well not so poor I'd guess!) Aston driver had to jump ship and get wet.

A great leveller if ever there was one?

Will

 

[Dieselman]

I guess money doesn't always = common sense.

Hence thousands of cars made it down the A4 ok, but the poor (well not so poor I'd guess!) Aston driver had to jump ship and get wet.

A great leveller if ever there was one?

Will

LOL...Ha Ha....

One of the 'broken down' was pushing his works van out of the flood outside our office. Of course we didn't laugh....