Weather warning, who cares when you are in a Land Rover Defender (with a snorkel)
Last Friday was a bad day for the southern part of the UK with sustained heavy rain fall over night and the following day.
The Met office had issued a severe weather warning so it should have not been a surprise for any one, but it seems that some people either fail to read the paper, watch the news or surf the web because the chaos around where I live was incredible.
I was heading out to a local supermarket to get lunch at midday, the route takes you under a railway bridge which has always been prone to flooding but had been substantially better since they cleared the ditches out.
The water under the bridge was already quite high about 18" deep and flowing fast, as I rounded the corner I came across two cars that were abandoned in the middle of the road, the first was a Merc A class and the owner was still about.
He took up my offer of a tow but as we were heading out off a van broke down in the middle of the road boxing me in, the only solution was to push the van out while still towing the A class, interestingly the Defender did this on tick over.
Having pushed and pulled both vehicles onto dry road I went off to the supermarket.
This was the view from the Merc, you can just see the van I was pushing:-
4 Hours later I went out to check the roads to let the wife know what route to come to get home, I came across the same Merc A class that was still waiting for a tow truck.
The driver David Currums decided that it was the battery that was dead, so out came the jump leads and we got the car started, it did run a bit rough for a while but soon settled down.
Unfortunately the Merc A-class didn't last long, on Saturday it decided to leave most of the engine on the road !
So just a word to all the environmentalists out there who slag of 4x4's, when they need rescuing they will have to produce a written apology first for making my taxes go up.
Posted at 12:29PM Jul 30, 2007 by Simon Bullen in General | Comments[0]
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