A lake?!

You lucky, lucky b******d. I was one of the hundred a sixty living in the shoebox in the middle of the road!

Location: North Herts

Know what you meen lads.

We didn't get any daylight here today.

Areas of the garden are under 4 inches of water.

Not a nice day for working in the cold.

And i have to travel to London early tomorrow to pick the flat tanker up.

Tony.

Location: Huncote on the pig

Shoebox! We had to run about in bare feet and paper bags went onto a spike in the outside loo.

Charles. Rural Norfolk

Location: Norfolk

I've just come in from lickin 'road clean wi ' tongue

Location: Ripon

Tasty Perhaps a little too much salt perchance?

Location: Norfolk

But how would you cope wi' Earthquake on top o'eet oorl? ?
Cheers From the shakey isles
Still getting after shocks as I write

Location: Wellington NZ

I realise now that I had a very priviledged upbringing!

Another good one this morning woke me up about 5am.

With bad weather you know it's coming and also that it is going to stop. You get some chance to prepare. With these quakes you never know when they hit and when one does you never know if this one will be a really big one that won't stop before your house falls down on top of you! Then after the quake you have to worry about the tsunami. We have blue lines painted on the roads here to show you what point you have to go past to be safe.

I am VERY glad one of the first things I did when I moved here was bolt all the shelving in the house and garage firmly to the walls. I had my tree stump topple over in the garage and somehow miraculously miss hitting the aluminium body of the Austin. And the Riley chassis, on it's wheeled dolly, moved about a metre across the floor. Luckily away from the side of my other car.

Was only after that I realised the castors on that dolly have brakes!

The big quake the other week was followed by bad weather. Luckily I wasn't affected here. It took my boss 5 hours to get home instead of his usual 20 minutes because flooding closed off the main roads out of Welly.

Hopefully you chaps are over the worst of the weather there now?

Simon

Location: Wellington