Question for the Older folks on here.

[duncan mackie]

We've always had lots of rain but what I don't remember is these God-Almighty cloudbursts that last about 10 minutes, dump a million gallons of rain on you and then revert to "normal" rain.
We didn't get that sort of stuff when I was a kid - or if we did it was rare.....

yep - like the one we (Kent) are expecting tonight!

 

[rosecott]

as we get older we find it getting wetter more, and often suddenly too . im 66 who's the oldest on the forum

Not quite an official pensioner yet [despite what Rosecott says]
Mind you I have only had 16 birthdays!

Could be me as I've had more than 16 birthdays.

 

[MegaSteve]

Think I stopped having birthdays at sixteen...

Currently torrenting down here in Park Royal... As anyone knows thats worked in a small factory unit the noise inside when its raining hard can be quite deafening...

 

[G1BB0]

raised in Cumbria, this is normal for us

I remember the storms in 86/87 (can't remember which) when we had to evacuate our flat, you could feel the building moving!!!

bunch of lightweights!

 

[Iaing]

I remember the great storm of 1967 when my tractor blew away!

 

[chrisd]

In Folkestone, we have had two earthquakes in recent years!

 

[CMAC]

Earthquakes...............
Floods................
Pestilence (Sockets rat).........

ring any bells with anyone..............

 

[chrisd]

Earthquakes...............
Floods................
Pestilence (Sockets rat).........

ring any bells with anyone..............

No plagues of locusts yet!

 

[williamalex1]

No plagues of locusts yet!

only a few midges left

 

[Iaing]

12/12/12's approaching.

We're all doomed!!

 

[teetime72]

as we get older we find it getting wetter more, and often suddenly too ./QUOTE]

It`s the prostrate.

My money is on Rosecott being the oldest.

 

[6inchcup]

1961 was a terrible year,and wagon wheels were 5 times the size and cheaper and came in a paper bag,mind you we played with irons like butter knives and a ball the size of a pea and your all weathers were tweed!!!!! good times.

 

[Twire]

We've had rain in biblical proportions down here in Devon this week.

Power cuts last night for 8 hours, back to candles and torches. The kids found it hard to cope without the laptops and tele...bless em.

 

[G1BB0]

We've had rain in biblical proportions down here in Devon this week.

Power cuts last night for 8 hours, back to candles and torches. The kids found it hard to cope without the laptops and tele...bless em.

had that with mine a couple of yeas ago, they were like addicts needing a fix! I think it was off for about 4hrs, the longest 4hrs I have ever had to endure with my kids

 

[Slicer30]

little bit off topic but rain related

I was in wembley a few years when the Tornado touched town in Willesden Green, NW london. The storm passed over my head on its way to willesden (2-3 miles).

It went from normal daylight to dark in seconds. Bloody street lights came on and then went off again after a few minutes.

The Rain/Hail that fell during that 5 min period was the worst I ever seen. Grew up in N.Ireland so seen my fair share of Rain.

 

[SocketRocket]

The Great Storm of 1968 was a bit worse.

 

[Imurg]

Was there a plague of rats then...?

 

[Hobbit]

Have we had Christmas yet?

I've had nearly as many Xmas's as him and I've never seen Santa

 

[Hobbit]

We've had rain in biblical proportions down here in Devon this week.

So there is a God!

 

[Khamelion]

I've been around nearly 15 years longer than that and - what was the question again?

Genius, that did did make me chuckle