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Posted by Kindgo (Member # 2) on :

Thu Aug 1 14:24:13 2002

Source: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=824142002

JAMES DOHERTY

SCOTLAND was last night braced for another day of road and rail misery after monsoon-like conditions brought much of the country to a halt.

The rainfall recorded in some parts of the central belt in 24 hours was as much as normally falls in a month.

Landslides and rain falling at a rate of an inch an hour led to the country being effectively cut off for a time, with road and rail routes to England closed. All three Edinburgh-Glasgow rail lines were blocked and the west coast line was closed at Beattock Summit after a landslide.

The M9 at Polmont, M74 at Crawford and A9 at Slochd were closed, while the M8 saw traffic crawl through bumper-high floodwater.

Rail services from Inverness and Aberdeen were being terminated at Stirling, with trains unable to get into Glasgow’s Queen Street station. Problems caused by the weather between York and Newcastle also affected east coast services.

There was widespread flooding, with homes in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West Lothian suffering. The towns of Aberfoyle and Callander were cut off in the Trossachs. Highland towns and roads were also battered by the deluge.

Nigel Bolton, a Met Office spokesman, said: "There could be as much as two or three inches more to come in places in the next six hours.

"I would expect to see some very severe weather with an awful lot more rain."

Elaine Fee, from AA Roadwatch, said: "It can be described as a nightmare. This is like a very bad day in winter and it has been a miserable summer and this has just compounded it."

As the situation deteriorated last night, forecasters warned it would be tomorrow before the rain would subside.

A spokesman for Railtrack said: "We have mobilised all our engineers to assist getting the network back to normal."

Posted by John146 (Member # 227) on :

When it rains it pours.

Posted by Janie Lee (Member # 190) on :

Thank you for posting this Kindgo.

Yes the weather here in sunny(???) Scotland has been something else recently, agriculture is suffering severely because of the extreme humidity and lack of sunshine, monsoon conditions like we experienced last week seem to be happening more and more frequently, and flash floods in the UK are regularly reported on our news bulletins. Add this to global heatwaves, droughts and famine and it seems clear that we have left this earth in a pretty dismal state. [tears]

Were we not supposed to be custodians of the earth?
GEN 1:28 "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."