Whoa! I think I have seen the most intense rain ever. It's been raining for days and days but today tops it all. To give you an idea: Go and stand under the shower, crank up the pressure so that it hurts. That's a lot of water right? Now do that for 16 hours straight.
Just to give you an idea: an area of France and Germany is currently flooded and we're in the middle of it. The town of Agnes Waters has 2 roads.
Road 1 has a Bridge with 8 meters of water over it. So that's: Standing on the Bridge you'd have to swim up 8 meters to get a breath of air.
Road 2 has "only" half a meter of water over it, but it goes for miles and miles.
Basically we're stuck in a 4 star resort with pools and beach. There are worse places to be at this time. 200.000 people have suffered damage varying from losing a car to losing a home. It's pretty bad.
What really intrigues me is that a couple of months ago a few specialists predicted this weather. They made a pretty convincing case about la Nina (a sub effect of el Niño). Their predictions so far have been spot-on.
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A little surprised to read this entry, being written 10th January 2010.
The road to Agnes Water has been flood free since the 30th of December and have had practically no rain since.
It is blogs like this that prevent tourism to areas such as Agnes Water and affect our businesses, holiday accommodation and much more.
I really do wish you could report this properly and state that this report of yours was from quite a while ago.
IF indeed you were here right now, you'd realise it's perfect beach weather here and that the sun has been out every day for the past couple of weeks.
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