After 48 hours of continuous, heavy rain, the ground couldn't take any more. The result was a huge amount of surface water, mostly on the roads of Renfrewshire, North Ayrshire and Inverclyde. Greenock was described as "an island" by the local paper, and was actually cut off completely for a few hours around midday. Speaking of the local paper (the Greenock Telegraph), it is printed in Glasgow and didn't actually arrive in Inverclyde until the end of the day. Anyway, here are some pictures...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
"The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls".
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