Is the weather **** where you are?

Its nearing the end of June and we havent even got near enough the summer temperatures

Gah, Im sure everyone in the UK have been on the receiving end of the brutal rain today and recently.

This downfall today couldnt have happened on a worse day for me, it was my first day at a new job. I wasnt sure whether to go when I heard the rain in the morning, but I went anyways. Added to the fact I got late, I also drenched!

I finished early, but it meant no buses/trains and was drenched again, and waiting for any bus to take me home. It wasnt happening, but LUCKILY, a bus comes that says its going to take me a different route but may get me back to city centre, I took the risk. Anyways, took me about an hour and a half to get back to city centre. On the journey, saw tons of flooding....

Does this flooding happen on a regular basis here in the UK?

Nah, I'd never seen a flood in real life, until the last couple of weeks. I don't reckon it could ever get as bad as this again here, I mean the river came (unless the dam at ulley actually does burst).

LOL, have you seen the pictures of hillsborough footy ground that were taken in the aftermath? looks like a swimming pool. I don't know how to post pictures but I'll have a go.

I'm in Sheffield, it's seriously dangerous here.

I battled to work just before police started turning people back. We had to close, and I eventually got home 4hours later. (20 min journey) Lost control of my car on a roundabout, aquaplaned on surface water, spun 180 degrees, luckily traffic so slow that there was no accident and I didn't even hit the kerbs.

A friend of mine is STILL in her office in Brightside. She's spent the night watching the RAF lifting people off the collapsing roof of the building next to her - she's low priority as in a stable building with nurses on site.

There are groups of horses stranded in Rotherham and nobody can get there to help them.

The Ulley dam is looking like bursting - it's been frantically drained as I type but the wall is cracking - which would take out a major power station (many places already have no power) plus would hit the supports of the raised sections of the M1, hence why the M1 is closed. It's just chaos.

Meadowhall is closed - cars floating around it's lower car park, and water up to the 3rd or 4th step of the escalators inside the ground floor.

I literally cannot leave my house because you can't get anywhere. Everywhere is closed.

I didn't know it was still that bad. I was in Rotherham centre yesterday and saw the madness, but I assumed it would all be fairly ok by now. My brother just went to college, lol.
I heard about the horses and people are really scared about the dam breaking. They evacuated all the locals there right?
I wonder if my mum's office building is alright, people were evacuated from near there in the first flooding episode, and this one is far worse!

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know why the power goes down in floods?
we kept having blackouts yesterday, and then had no power all night. We were arguing about the exact causes of it, but couldn't agree on what it might be

The consequences of this incident are going to be huge for Sheffield and Rotherham, plus Hull and other areas badly affected

Whereabouts in Rotherham do you come from, because most of my friends in Switnon have had flooding, but none of them have had to evacuate.

Yeah, it's really bad here. I live in Rotherham where all the floods are on the telly.
We have been without power since around 2 o clock yesterday and thousands have houses have been evacuated.
Luckily it has stopped raining now, so it hopefully wont get any worse.

On the bright side, college was cancelled yesterday, today and tomorrow because the roads here are only to be used in a case of emergency.