It's the wettest drought on record!

[EVguru]

A friend of mine had a little incident.



The 350 Enfield (assembled from bits left over from building his pre 1965 motorcrosser) found the big hole the fast flowing water had dug in the stream bed. The pressure of water along with growing hypothermia meant he coudn't get it out unaided and he had to squelch home for his Landrover.

Having dragged it out, he drained the carb replaced the oil and it's back in service on his smallholding once more.

Down in parts of the Southeast the aquifers that supply our drinking water are low. All this water falling from the sky is just flowing away to the sea.

[Mike Nash]

Maybe ya'll need buckets instead of carburetors to catch that excess in.

[Alan Smith]

Paul, I know where you are coming from. Standing watching the raging torrent that is the stream at the bottom of our woods, soaked wet from the torrential rain and reflecting on the hose pipe ban!

At least the reservoirs are filling fairly rapidly now, Ardingly and Weir Wood are fuller than they have been for many months if not a year or two.

[John Stevenson]

Ironic that the water board is having to go round in rowing boats to enforce the hosepipe ban.

[Peter.]

Ironic that the water board is having to go round in rowing boats to enforce the hosepipe ban.

Quality John

[Weston Bye]

Ironic that the water board is having to go round in rowing boats to enforce the hosepipe ban.

I love it.

[Peter N]

I've heard rumours that the drought (ha!) is/was perhaps not quite as severe as they were claiming, and that the hosepipe ban and other restrictions are part of a strategy to ensure that the water levels are maintained for the Olympics period.
It would be awfully embarrassing to run out of water with the eyes of the World upon us