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Friday, July 20, 2007
Monsoon season
Its the monsoon season here in England. This afternoon, it took me two and a half hours to drive from Hereford to Worcester, via the only navigable route, the A49 to Ross on Wye, then the M50 and the M5. That journey would normally take me around an hour.
The M50 was more like a river than a road, and is now closed.
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To add insult to injury, I arrived back in Worcester at 5:30pm, to discover a complete lack of electricity, caused, as it turned out, by a foot of flood water in one of Worcester's electrical substations. Power was restored just after 8pm.
These have been the worst flash floods here since April 1998. On that occasion, it took me 3 1/2 hours to get home.
Photos Copyright © 2007 Phil Randal