Geordies are donning coats!

Only to get home from work though, pet. Be shirts and dresses for the night out like.

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I was out in it taking a few pics and no I didn’t have a coat on.

About time the place got electricity.

That bottom one is on my commute. There’s a good one of a burst manhole on dean street with about a 4 foot water fountain coming out

Big bike ride on tonight around the river*. Will be interesting for those doing it!

*Tyne Bridges ride part of the Virgin money cyclone weekend.

Lovely and sunny daaahn saarf still. I guess it will change soon….about 30 minutes into my run I reckon.

Video footage of that CaptJohn it’s facebook so may not work for all.

Yeah. I’m in That London this week. Blue skies here, had door open all day cos it’s too damn hot and stuffy. Very weird. Dunno what I’m going home to in East Lancs, but I live on a hill so should be ok.

Tyne Bridge, earlier.

http://twitpic.com/a1j9xx

Hey CaptJon – did you do the commute??

I bottled it and got the missus to rescue me:
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/steel-bike-in-a-thunderstorm

By CaptJon, I mean jonba.

Mackem – Member

About time the place got electricity.

Leccy and running water in a day? Posh gits

GrahamS – Member
Hey CaptJon – did you do the commute??

no, i checked the forecast this morning and got the metro. had to walk home though.

It’ll give the barcodes something else to twist about. 😆

Of course I commuted by bike. I got soaked but was kept warm by the smug glow of passing cars stuck in queues.

Went out for a nice 3 hour ride this evening too and they were still queueing in Gosforth and along the coast road at 9.30

What the hell was that person thinking of trying to cross the street in Alnwick!

Well my guess was he was trying to get home and didn’t expect the water to be so powerful to wash him off his feet. From what I gather there was a few people washed over and more than one needed help as they were getting washed into the deep water.

Of course I commuted by bike. I got soaked but was kept warm by the smug glow of passing cars stuck in queues.

I got the smug glow of finding that my house hadn’t been flooded out, evacuated, or set alight by lightning.

And we still had power.

It’s great when bad things happen to other people isn’t it? 😉

I considered going for a night ride to laugh at them but thought better of it.

Well my guess was he was trying to get home and didn’t expect the water to be so powerful to wash him off his feet. From what I gather there was a few people washed over and more than one needed help as they were getting washed into the deep water.

Getting helped – that proves it was in the North, and not South 🙂

No wonder there’s no hosepipe ban.

Of course I commuted by bike. I got soaked but was kept warm by the smug glow of passing cars stuck in queues.

I was sat in the traffic and wishing I was on the bike…. The car journey sucked ass.

Yeah flowing water is a lot more powerful than you’d think.

Yeah flowing water is a lot more powerful than you’d think.

especially if you’re wearing fleece..

I was going to ride home, but my wife didn’t want to drive (see previous thread 😀 ) so she picked me up. never seen conditions like it. two friends have had their houses flooded, I had to gamble on a stretch of road that had claimed 5 cars already. either that or we would have been stranded for 4 hours, and my son would have been staying at the childminders

Just under 5hr from Durham to Heaton this evening. Ended up abandoning car and hr walk home. Just back from collecting it – run there drive back. Coast road still shut but thought be less stress pick up now. Was ridiculous out there.l today.