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lid says...
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:31:23 -0000, Amethyst Deceiver
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In article ,
says...
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 14:37:45 -0000, Amethyst Deceiver
wrote:

One reason I like Zen is that they're based relatively locally to me so
if things do go shaky we can look out of the window and decide that the
torrential rain may have something to do with it!

LOL it isn't for nothing that Wet Yorkshire was a potential site for TV signal
propagation through heavy rain experiments

Taking the downpour of July 2006 into consideration,

& 2007?

I'm talking about one particular day. I think it was the 6th. It was a
Sunday, definitely, because we watched the clouds gathering as we were
getting ready to watch the grand prix. OldBloke said "It's going to
pour, and I bet it starts just as the race does and the signal goes".
I'm glad I didn't bet against him, because the lights on the race went
off, the cars started, the heavens opened and the telly showed static
until we switched back to analogue. The rain was so hard we couldn't see
the houses over the road; it came in over the top of the door and we
spent half the race mopping the kitchen, and my poor vegetable patch was
flattened - the potatoes were especially sad!

It came down so hard on the tops that one of the culverts got blocked
with rocks and exploded.

http://www.davebudd.org.uk/flood/ - about halfway down you can see my
poor potatoes.

It was July 2nd, I've just checked.