I eventually got hold of Mum - stuck in a traffic jam north of Birmingham. After a lot of frantic texting back and forth with traffic updates (thank goodness I had internet!) she completed ignored my advice to find a hotel and pressed on for home!
It had got to 10:45pm UK time and I hadn't heard that she was home so I decided to phone in case she had got there and the place was under water but she didn't know how to tell us! It seemed I phoned just as she was putting her key in the lock. It took her 13 hours to drive from Edinburgh. She'd been stuck in a gridlocked traffic jam for 130-odd miles, and had ploughed on through the flooding around Leigh Sinton to get home. Apparently the last 2 miles were the worst!!
Our house is an island surrounded by a lake of water. Thankfully it's all dry and fine, but other houses round about are not so well off. The little cottage on the corner is flooded and other neighbours were taken in by a kindly old lady in Alfrick as they were stranded...
The worst thing is - it's still raining heavily!
We had Morag and Simon and the girls round for the Inaugural BBQ tonight. Shopping for it was slightly traumatic...I wanted to go to a bigger Safeway (ours is tiny) to get a better selection of produce, and Stephen had been told of one on Van Dorn. We headed off about 2:45 (which was later than we wanted) and found it was MILES away! Then because the store was huge it took ages to get round, then we hit traffic on the way home...anyway, it was 5pm when we got home and Morag and Simon were due at 6pm!! And I still had to shower. And make salad. And phone Mum to make sure that she wasn't stranded in a flood...!! But it all came together, the food was ready in time (and BBQ'd to perfection by Stephen - even the salad!!).
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