>>I see that half of the US is baking, unable to set off your squibs, and the other half is suffereing floods.
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>We are in the baking part. It is currently 42C at 5:00pm (that's approximately 108F for us Yanks)!!!! We hardly ever get temps this high. A/C's been going non-stop.

Hot-hot-hot! I've only encountered temps like that in Egypt, mid-summer, or humidly in Thailand I think!

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>> I don't know if you've heard buit a grate deal of the UK is still flooded after the wettest June on record, with £billions needed to fix it all up and many families having to leave their homes for up to a year.

Spelling of "grate" above. Must apologise. Shame-face.

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>Wow, didn't know you guys got hit so bad. Your house OK?

We're OK, living way up a hill from the sea, in a city built on 7 hills, with a huge storm-drain built in recent years (you could drive a double-decker bus along it - but they're now altering it as it's not big enough!). But low-lying areas all over the country are flooded, esp in river flood-plains. Hull has been hit bad.

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>>It's a but like Katrina, only without the loss of life, washed away houses, poor black families, lootin' and a-shootin'... Wait a minute - it's NOTHING like Katrina.
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>LOL!

But seriously, there are maybe as many buildings flooded, but spread all over the country.

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>>It's still dull and showery now in July, We had a beautiful, hot, dry April - beach weather. Go figure.
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>Two words: GLOBAL WARMING <g>

But not due to Man!

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>We might be heading out to the UK in September. It'll start out as a business trip, but we'll tack on some extra vacation time while we're there to head on over to the continent and spend a week or so in Chamonix.

What part of the UK? Looks like we're back off to France at the end of the month.

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