morpheus22
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Registered: 10th Oct 05
Location: sheffield
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mum woke me up about half an hour ago shouting at me where on flood alert so i looked at my road and i said dont be daft mum look at the road its only wet then she asked me to look again,so i looked into field across the road and saw this......
farm accross the road from me
and my mates house back garden
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loubielou
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Registered: 14th Jan 07
Location: North Finchley, Greater London
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 it hasnt even rained down here yete 
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
Location: Cottingham, East Riding
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Global warming 
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Fro
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Registered: 20th Jun 06
Location: Rainham, Essex Drives: A3 2.0TDi Sport
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theres quite a few around brentwood and chelmsford from the rain yesterday.
English weather eh.
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Urgh.. if this is heading thius way, the drive to my other halfs just got an hour longer 
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Brett
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Location: Manchester
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I was travelling to work this morning and a horse carrier had spun back on itself, and the horse was in the middle of the motorway!
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Rachael 1985
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Registered: 3rd May 07
Location: Leicestershire Drives: Corsa Sport
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It rained loads here yesterday but no floods yet 
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K2 GTi
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Registered: 21st Oct 04
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rachel it usually floods on the road towards fosse park from broughton astley. all them fields normally have waves in them. well they did a few months back
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Doug
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Great, I hate driving through water
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Brett
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I love driving in the rain tbh Bombing it about How irresponsible 
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andy1868
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Registered: 22nd Jun 06
Location: Burscough, Lancashire
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i went through a seriass puddle on my way to work this morning, most of the road was fine then there is a slight dip that filled with water and formed a small moat across the road, decided i wasn't going slow through it and made some waves 
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Rachael 1985
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Registered: 3rd May 07
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quote:
Originally posted by K2 GTi
rachel it usually floods on the road towards fosse park from broughton astley. all them fields normally have waves in them. well they did a few months back
Yeah i know and last time i was driving thru Earl Shilton and we'd had loads of rain it was nearly flooded.
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Doug
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Registered: 8th Oct 03
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Brett,
My brake ducts just funnel water right onto the disks (great for breaking )
And last time I was driving through a flodded road it somehow ripped half of my exhaust heat sheild off!!
Puddles wont be a problem for you as your car is a designed for it TBH
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morpheus22
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Registered: 10th Oct 05
Location: sheffield
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just helping at the farm now the water doesnt seem to be going down.you see the work men in the pics its all through them that where flooded
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Brett
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Registered: 16th Dec 02
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
Puddles wont be a problem for you as your car is a designed for it TBH
Hence why I love driving in the rain
4x4
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topshot_2k
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Registered: 1st Dec 03
Location: Northampton Drives: Pug GTi-6
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it completly flooded one of our fields, we had to move the sheep on higher groun. the river at the bottom is right above the banks now. good job we live on a hill 
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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rained loads last 2 days, no floods mind
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Yea, I'm not going to work for a while because I heard that the A38, M6 and M42 look like that
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Ren
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Registered: 16th Oct 04
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Was driving through Birmingham and saw this had to drive on the grass to make it across, but other people felt lucky i guess
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boyracer2002
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Registered: 10th Aug 02
Location: West Yorkshire
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I hit some huge floods lasnite about 1am on my way home, struggling to get into 1st gear now time to go back to the citroen garage and blame the van
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
Location: Hazlemere, Buckinghamshire
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Transit Vans can do everything - 1.5m high water? PHA, Ill get to work!
1 hr late for work? PHA, ill do 120 down the motorway!
But floods
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Shane
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Registered: 10th Jan 04
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it rained all night here aswel, but i didnt see anything on that scale on the way to work
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Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
Location: Aberdeen
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Your all doomed
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Kathryn W
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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Pmsl
Some big puddles like that around here the other night!
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Superlite Ltd.
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Registered: 9th Jan 07
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I almost drowned the car driving through a massive puddle yesterday
Stayed on the throttle and got through 
...unlike some poor sod in a 1.2 corsa B who was stuck in the middle
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