What a difference a day makes...

24 little hours brought the snow and the showers, where there used to be rain.  I've used a little artistic licence to change the lyrics of this classic song to fit my photograph!

It started snowing last night and when I woke this morning everything was white again.  This time it was also blowing a gale which is why there is snow gathered on the window.  The snow on the roads has melted but it is still there in the fields and some on the side roads. Skies are clear tonight so I expect tomorrow I will have to negotiate ice.

Rebecca surveys the flood - 365+1

Snap - Maya de Groot

Yesterday it rained and it rained and it rained.  The field next to our house has a swampy bit that fills up with water when there is heavy rain and it is particularly full today.  My phone is in there, Rececca is just sending a text to her friend to tell her about the rain and the flooded field (can't believe I'm writing this!), it has been drier today, but still cold and dull.

Flash Flood

On Wednesday night I set off home from work as usual. It was dry and dull in Dumfries. As I reached the top of the hill after Torthorwald, a heavy thunder shower started, then it simply did not stop. There was a lot of traffic and everyone slowed right down, as we started to descend the road was filling up with water. It was pouring off the fields in great fountains, reddish brown and full of soil. On the road it was like the tide coming in, great waves of water swooshing across the road, it was about 4 inches deep in places and I suddenly thought about those film clips you see on TV where cars are swept away - a very scary moment.

Further down the road it was covered in stones swept onto the road by the water. Water was bubbling up through the drains in Lochmaben but the water level was much lower. As I drove out of Lochmaben towards home the road became dry, there had been no rain there at all. It was the worst drive I have had since we had a major snow fall and I had to get home, I thought that time I wouldn't get there.

Of course, because it had not been raining like that anywhere else, only those who were there could really understand how frightening it was.