366 Photos - 326 - A Bit Damp...

[byslantedlight]

I had to go to Yeovil for an appointment today, and it was raining, but I took a couple of sort of colourful pics, and thought this was going to be about as exciting as it got, considering the grey skies and vast quantities of rain coming down...

I did a few chores - including finally getting my hands on the Vodafone Sure Signal box I'd been promised weeks ago. Got it home, opened the box, and... sure enough, the instructions said plug into your broadband router. Which would be fine, if I hadn't repeatedly asked the guy on the phone who offered it to me in exchange for continuing my contract Are you sure it only plugs into an electricity socket - nowhere else? No, he said, just the socket, simple as that. No, it's not connected to your internet... *headdesk* Of course it bloody is. That's how they all work. That's why I wasn't convinced when he first offered it to me. Cos when I'd asked about it in the shops aaages before, they'd said it was something you plugged into your router. Which would normally be fine, but it's not my router! Gaah! Bloody Vodafone... If I had my own router etc. it wouldn't be a problem to start with, cos I'd also have my own landline... *headdesk*

And then... I looked out my window, and the sky seemed to have cleared a bit behind the stables, where the sun sets, and there was a pink-ish glow, so I thought I'd see if I could take something a bit more interesting... and wow. We can haz a lake!

Then I heard a peculiar lot of splashing from the main road - and in the few hours since I'd got home, the drains had flooded over and cars were swimming through it! I'd actually done my share of car-swimming along the link-lane I use to get to the A37. It's at the bottom of a hill, and the water often floods down from the fields onto the road in winter - but I'd never seen it covered as much as it was this morning in so many places. And it's only been raining a day! I came home the other way to avoid what I presumed would only have gotten worse - and a few hours later, the main road is getting worse too. Luckily I have nowhere I need to be tomorrow!

That front field isn't usually under water either - its where the sheep live!

I hope no one gets too damp, and that everyone drives safely - but it does make for more exciting photos than I was expecting to post... *g*