It’s raining again

We both slept pretty well but I was still up early at 6:30am and I didn’t ache like I thought I might.
It had rained during the night but when I first got up it had stopped although it was cloudy.
After I’d showered when I came back downstairs it was raining again and the temperature had fallen rapidly. I wished I hadn’t put my shorts on but thought I’d front it out anyway.
We had to go shopping today and as we left the heavens opened and the thunder and lightning started. Our first shop of the day was back to Decathlon and it was a 25 minute drive and the rain got worse and worse. By the time we reached the last 1km the road was literally a river and the drains looked like water fountains spewing water 2 foot up in the air.
Europeans can’t drive in the rain, I don’t know whether they’re just not used to it or if it’s just there normal crappy driving just gets even worse but it really is dangerous. They haven’t got a clue what to do. Some were still driving bumper to bumper not being able to see and when the first car breaks they all have to brake which leads to cars having to stop and if your in deep water or running water you won’t get started. I left at least a 4 car length gap but the Land Rover in front of us was still stop and start and just couldn’t keep a constant speed.
The turn off for decathlon couldn’t come soon enough and as we turned into the flooded car park we looked into the nearby underpass to see a car disappearing underwater.
After just 5 minutes in decathlon the rain subsided and then all we could hear was sirens. Our next stop was Leroy Merlin’s the other side of the bypass and I decided not to attempt the underpass and went over the bridge. As we pulled into the car park we could see the road we had just been on to get to decathlon and the underpass were now completely submerged. There were cars in the underpass and all we could see was the tops of there windows.
After coming out of Leroy Merlin’s you wouldn’t have known that 20 minutes ago we had the rain from hell. The roads were drying and traffic was flowing again and the fire service and police were trying to pump out the water from the underpass and rescue people.
Our next stop was the giant chinky shop and then back to Lidl for food shopping as Ellie’s brother is coming tomorrow. Then it was back to the villa.
For the rest of the day we just chilled out and had a rest day. It was so cold in the afternoon we even had to put the heating on.Read more