That's what the forecast promised. That's a lot of rain, the gutters full to over flowing, manhole covers forced up by the volume of water, debris all over the place, fields flooded, that sort of thing. What did we get? Drizzle. All day long. Grey, damp day.
One little thing that happen was I ran out of 5 pence pieces this morning on a school run to Churston Grammar School. The children start getting on in Torquay and buy return tickets and for some reason no matter which fare stage they got on at the fare always ended in 5p. £2.65 then £2.35 a bit further down the road and down to £1.95 from Paignton Bus station. And when there are 80 children getting on the bus and few of them with the old 5p my store soon ran out. I will have to nip in the Post Office on the way to work tomorrow and get some more.
The other thing was setting of from Torquay towards Paignton and expecting the usual delay at the Gas Works. No delay; after 5 days of having long queues of traffic waiting to go through the temporary traffic light it was apparent that some one had been reading the blog and seen the photo of hundreds of cars waiting patiently between Livermead and Corbyn Head and had decided something had better be done about the problem.
More rain forecast tomorrow.
Still no details on the diversion round Rock Walk though a passenger mentioned that it looks like taxis will be allowed to use Fleet Street for the duration.
2 comments:
I slipped through them yesterday pretty easily too
I know what you mean about the 5p pieces. I tend to run out of them more at week-ends as those people who travel during the week always seem to have the correct fare. Unseasoned week-end travellers just can't be bothered to try. Lucky for my passengers that I carry a float at all. Many of our more beligerent drivers won't as it's not a company requirement.
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