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Last night's commute: here in Brissle we started hearing about an amber weather warning, and the message with it was that it starts at four, there may torrential rain and flash floods and the potential for loss of life. It was all very ominous and I thought about leaving early for home back in Cheltenham. 4 o'clock rolled around and granted there was a heavy shower, which then ended. When I left the office at 6:15 it wasn't even raining. So the bike part of the commute was fine, so far anyway.
It was when I got the Temple Meads that the shit hit the fan. A load of trains had been cancelled and the rest were running late because of 'forecasted severe weather'. So not actual severe weather, just forecasted. There was no high wind and it wasn't raining. My train was 15 minutes late which wasn't too bad, after they changed platforms suddenly, but on the train we were just trundling along. Eventually the train manager came on the tannoy to apologise because Network Rail had imposed a region-wide 50mph speed limit because of, you guessed it, forecasted severe weather. A train journey that was supposed to take 40 minutes took twice that. Absolute muppets. After all the down and gloom not a lot happened, no flash floods as far I am aware, no trees down, no lives lost.
Was raining back in Nam, dusted off the rain jacket and cycled home getting back very late, but at least the rain as warm. Spent the evening watching the lightening out my bedroom window. That bit was good at least.