| Yesterday's epic rainstorms; Ashley aka Margaret to the forum please | |
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| Rich_F | Oct 21 2013, 08:20 AM Post #1 |
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Mudthing
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We were down Lewes way yesteday and bumped into Ashley and friends Mid afternoon saw some epic rainstorms - Ashley did you get caught in those? We were doing 20mph on the Lewes bypass. Appalling visibility - huge puddles! anyone else out yesterday and "enjoyed" the weather? R |
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| Ollie | Oct 21 2013, 09:22 AM Post #2 |
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Mudthing
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ourwere parked up at stammer when it started And had to abort our reccie ride we are going to reccie as a night ride now!
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| belugabob | Oct 21 2013, 12:10 PM Post #3 |
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Mudking
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We were in the pub - had that weird thing where it was TISWAS torrential time out of the south window and bone dry out of the west window |
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| Ming the Merciless | Oct 21 2013, 03:18 PM Post #4 |
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Overlord of all Known Sheds!
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According to my rain gauge at one point the rain rate was 114mm/hr (that's over 4 inches per hour in old money). Luckily it only lasted about 30 minutes but Jevington and Polegate were very flooded. |
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| Ashley1 | Oct 21 2013, 03:42 PM Post #5 |
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Moaning Muddy Margaret
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Hi all We were very lucky with the weather! It was raining cats and dogs but we were inside the cider tent at middle farm! Then we got some sunshine for the ride home!! There wre six of us in total and all on singlespeeds!! |
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| guy | Oct 21 2013, 05:37 PM Post #6 |
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Mudking
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I missed that storm by about 20 minutes after finishing my ride, even got the bike cleaned and put away, walked into the house and the heavens then opened big time ( so dark the street lights turned on, very windy, silly ammounts of rain etc) which I assumed was the tail end of the big storm and Tornado that hit Hayling Island... On that note I wonder if Mr Du Pre got to watch a live action version of the film "Twister"?
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| Rob DuPre | Oct 21 2013, 08:01 PM Post #7 |
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Liberally Covered
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It passed me around 1 mile to the West. I opened the curtains to see the patio furniture playing ' chase' round the garden , and some very fast moving low black clouds overhead. Funny thing is the windspeed at home was probably on 35 - 40 knots , enough to rock the fence and move chairs, but nowhere near enough to fell trees and move beach huts . wanted to do the Wiggle 100 and had an entry , but probably wisely sacked it off as it was grim . Muddy surface water hides potholes and frost damage and i bet there were rivers running down the sides of most of the route . laughed when I saw twister was on the tele that evening. the Police were up in the helicopter . " Be on the lookout for tubular shaped spinny cloud wanted for causing criminal damage to roofs and sheds on Hayling Island" geniuses |
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we are going to reccie as a night ride now!
