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[Weaver]

Astonishing storms lightning torrential rain and flooding in the Edinburgh area and a major exchange is down. All my four Andrews and Arnold links appeared down early this morning and are still down - auto-switched over to 3G.

see https://aastatus.net/36746

[j0hn]

I'm a few miles South of Edinburgh.

I've never seen thunder and lightning like it before.
The flooding is horrendous in some parts with the A68 road practically disintegrating at parts.

Thankfully my FTTP install is still going ahead today with only a slight delay from an A.M to a P.M install.
I was anticipating my install being cancelled due to last night's rain but the engineer has txt to say he's still coming 

[22over7]

From about 20 past 4pm, Morningside Edinburgh BT-dependents got the internet again.

It's eye-opening how much I've been dependent on the internet.

The storms were rather lovely. In a wild kind of way.

I remember as a child the comfort of
being under an eiderdown (/duvet), while the rain lashed at the windows.

In Edinburgh, some 7(?) years ago, there was the time cars were floating in
Balcarres Street. I remember photographing the water lapping at my neighbours air-bricks.
And the torrents flowing into my back garden.

[Weaver]

[Weaver]

Amazing hole in the A68 :

[j0hn]

Amazing hole in the A68 :

That's what I was referring to in my post above.
That's only about 5 miles down the road from me.

The thunder and lightning was like nothing I'd ever seen before.
Pretty glad I'm no longer on an xDSL service as that much lightning usually would have sent my line crazy.

[Moderator edited to remove the link to the image, which is visible in the preceding post.]

[Weaver]