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The north of the country is supposed to be getting a months worth of rain over the next 24 hours which would lead to a heck of a lot of homes getting flooded out, i can only imagine what this would feel like & i hope the weathermen are wrong, if you are in one of these areas i wish you all the best of luck.

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Yea got luck to all, doesnt look like you will have your bikes out this weekend

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It was puring last night, and I had football training :(

Good luck to everyone else who is away to get drenched this weekend :)

Bah bloody weather.

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its stopped for awhile last night but I did get drenched going to the bank machine last night. But its back on again with avegence and we now have the wind.

Make sure your bikes are all secured if covered outside!!!

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Blue skies and mild here in Wigan.

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It's gie dreach here now, like a monsoon in fact.

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Blue skies and WIND in sunny Middlesbrough

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Ain't stopped feckin raining for two weeks! Everytime it comes to the weekend its bloody raining and i have to get the bike out for work. I tell you there is a big cloud over HX.
Today is the calm before the storm, if you can call it that, washing out on line, attached by a whole shelf full of pegs. Got to get the lot done today.....cause tomorrow it rains big time again :-(

Glad I live on a hill though, the water passes my house by and floods everyone elses instead :-)

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We had severe floods in N. Wales yesterday morning that eased through the day. Although my son had a big scare on the way home from work yesterday evening when a flood was deeper than expected, good job his car has a snorkel fitted! The floods are exacerbated by high tides with the wind driving the tide up estuaries. :(

Looks like the latest storm has tracked a bit further north than forecast so we might escape today, although heavy rain predicted for us at lunchtime and afternoon today. Floods predicted for Friday and Saturday.

Good luck to my son, who is driving to Carlisle today for a job interview.

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Overcast and mild wind in Durham.

God Speed to son of the Pants of Luck.

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Hope he gets through ok Mike - I work with a guy who lives up that way and his gf has phoned him to say their village (near Cockermouth) is completely blocked off!

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On the weather forecast Stranraer is under a yellow/green area, so MBK is going to be busy:(

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Can you all keep it until Sunday please because I want to play football Saturday. I missed out last weekend because of crap weather.

Thanks.

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Thanks Andy, he got there OK and interview went well. He heading home now, waiting to hear about the job.

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I hope it rains so my football is cancelled on saturday, got a 18th saturday night in Aberdeen then a 18th down in Edinburgh Saturday night :(

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Eeeeeh you southerners don't know how easy you've got it.

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Stranraer is in the red zone!! Dumfries and Galloway and Cumbria are now both in the red.

But thankfully I am in central Scotland just now so I am missing the most of it! Or I would be working today! Not looking forward to driving home in it tomorrow though as it is supposed to be worse!

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It's being absoultuly hammering it down for the last 24 or more hours on the Isle of Man, roads be shut and re-opening all the time as water builds up, i went for a blast in the car and nearly lost it over a huge plain of water. Just gonna go and change me underpants now.

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nevermind

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ahem

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fine here :) was a lovely ride to and from work today. absolutly loved it :) dry sticky roads :) great :)

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Hey its been great here today, so much wind I got a weeks worth of washing dry in a day 8)

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?? No comprendo senor!

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well we got sent home yesterday as our rural roads were starting to flood. The office looks like an island where the local river has burst its banks and flooded all around it but roads where fine so far but our guys have been out most of the night. Rains eased off here but we are due for another bucket tomorrow

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Banditpat said "so is he home then?" or summat like that

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Just saw on the news a rescue worker slinging a perky office girl over his shoulder and CARRYING HER to dry land. And then going back for her even perkier (with glasses) friend.

Woof woof!

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Shame about that poor police officer :( r.i.p

Be careful every one especially the emergeancy services working in this weather to help every one

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But had edited by the time I saw it. Yes he is home, but I have heard the Water Rescue Team he used to work with has been called out from N. Wales to Cumbria. So trying to find out if he is going to be going there. Seems a little daft, seeing as their base in the Conwy Valley was almost flooded. I guess the thought is that we have things under control around here and the events in Cumbria are extreme, needing a massive response.

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sun sun sun hear :/ lol strange might wash the bike :D

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BBC News (subtitles) just informed me that "the pudding was of unprecedented style, the kind only seen every 1000 years."

That's some epic pudding.

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Jon's water rescue squad have been put back to standby as the poor policeman has been found. His group have dogs trained to find bodies underwater, so that is what they would have been doing.

I feel very sorry for the guy's poor wife and kids.

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Rest in Peace PC Barker.

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+1

Thought go out to his wife, Hazel, and their four children...

Take care out there everyone

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Meh, I live at the top of a hill.

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RIP PC BARKER, Lost his life saving others.

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Tried to get to cockermouth today and that was impossible on a bike or in a car(my car) I have a mate int he coast guard and he was out till 9 this morning, said that trying to cross the floods was nearly loosing them the in shore boats because the currents were that strong and the water was to high to walk through before you even got the where there was a current. Can't even get through workington after the northside bridge collapsed but on the bright side no one can go to the cinema tomorrow because apart from its closed there's no buses on and no trains so that means im not jimmed :D