The wettest day....

This is back blipped as yesterday was spent coping with the wettest day we have ever experienced here.   It is really difficult to find an image that sums it up as we weren't out because we couldn't get out - all the roads round about were closed and our own track has been damaged, though not as badly as we first feared.   

The main road to Dunoon is still closed as is the A83 in multiple places.   The only route to the central belt still possible for us is via two ferries - Cointraive and Rothesay - but they went off around 5.00 last night too.

We were meant to be going to a 70th birthday party on the other side of the Clyde but just after we had decided that it would be impossible to get there, the event was cancelled because no one could get there, not even the people who were going to prepare the food.  

My picture is me standing on the corner of our track- a place I have often taken blips from including the Northern Lights earlier this year.   The water there was half way up my wellies and was flooding the surrounding area as well.   Further down a torrent had torn up part of the next corner and there will need to be a lot of filling of small runnels that have been carved by the force of the flood.  

My extra photos show both the graph from rainfall from the weather station app  as it recorded over 100mm  ( a record for her in a day , with over 200 since last Sunday morning) as well as a couple of other pictures from here  (our stream burst its banks and damaged one of the wee wooden bridges across it ) though it is the videos that are most dramatic.  I have  also used a picture from our friend Fiona Hamilton which is of the entrance to the Glendaruel Caravan Park at around lunchtime yesterday.   

Dramatic evidence anyway that rainfall is getting heavier and more intense.  Yet apparently we should all forget about climate targets and net zero.

What dangerous nonsense with clear consequences as the people of Argyll have just found out yet again.