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Ummm...I don't have wellies which fit me, I probably still have some of those frog wellies in the garage but sadly I don't have a webcam and even if I did I would have no idea how to use it so you can't verify my trainers but they're definitely full of water...

*chears for Green Frog wellies!*

Have you hung them on the washing line

I'm not wearing the wellies...

Umm...well I guess if I hung them outside then they might get dried by the gales, but then I guess they'd also be blown away and the torrential rain might slow the whole not being full of water process a bit...

You know I meant the shoes

Haven't you got an in-door washing line?

Just keep the trainers on, your body heat will dry them. Eventually.

You cheered the wellies...I was pointing out that no matter how much you encouraged them I wasn't going to wear them

I have a radiator which a has similar effect...but now I'm going to have to wash them as they'll be all icky and I've only just washed them from the last time I really did go rowing and they took ages to dry then.

*Feels sorry for the poor wellies *
You mean person.....

I have a cooker... with a washing line near it

*is amazed at now feeling guilty about not wearing the wellies*

Would they not then cook rather than dry?

No.... the thermal currents drifts by the line and causes things to smell of lovely food

*squealches in*
Floods are getting worse...74mm of rain today and whilst it's stopped for the last half hour I suspect it'll be back...I really ought to find those wellies, I'll run out of Um Ognob soon

Hmm my trainers are covered in mud so I suspect food would probably be a vast improvement

The water was getting deeper at work today too.

*grins*
It's still getting deeper here, I just went to buy emergency supplies of Um Ognob (has anyone seen that? It really amuses me) and the road which was only previously slightly flooding now has a current in it and is about a foot under water...still it made pretty splooshes...

Cool!
Lets us know if you get stranded.....

The cinema down the road (which was built on a flood plain ) Now looks like an island.... literally, with the front doors being only 4 yards away from water
I was considering getting a kyack and going for a paddle

Yeah I'll send a message on my mobile to someone and get them to type it up saying "Help, traped in flood, shoddy car has collapsed and my feet are cold"...
*thinks*
Nope did that today but I was on a bus instead...1 and a half hours it took for a 20 minute journey, every single river in Sheffield and Derbyshire chose today to overflow and all of them chose my bus route

Couldn't you just phone someone or use your computer *grins*

Same round here.... most of the busses gave up aand kicked everyone off... cos it was quicker to walk

*grins*
And when I was trapped in my car at the bottom of a hill in the flood, how precisely would I use my computer? Although I suppose I could ring someone and get them to type you a message but it'd be just the same as messaging them
*grins at Fish*

Well.... the main idea, is that you DON'T get trapped in your car, because your presumably to clever for that
*grin at Tink'*

Alternatively.... you could just dial 999

*laughs*
I'm glad you added the grin or else I might have thought you were serious...besides you said to tell you if I got trapped in a flood

What I meant.... was If you got trapped in a flood at home.... *scratches head...* .... *grins*

The water has slowly been going down here.