Oh boy, I have just got home from Germany to find most of Central Scotland is under a couple of feet of water................... drowned cars all over the place and folks pushing them through deep standing water.
No problem for an RRS though, stop on edge of flood, set offroad suspension mode and low ratio and drive slowly into the knee deep water and wade along until you get out the other side, lower the suspension and engage Hibox again, drive off. There's more water laying on the ground here than I have ever seen before and there are serious floods everywhere, even on the motorway into town from the airport there was deep standing water and silly prats flying along at 30-40mph and hitting it even though the CITRAC overhead signs were showing a 5mph speed limit in places where there is floods!
There will be NO water shortages next year if we continue with rain at this rate..................... I think it must have been raining continuously since I left home on Monday morning! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Tim good write up

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well Tim ! you have been to Kraut land without telling me  
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Angel, almost Klogland where I was.................... Kleve in Neiderhein, about 120ks from Dusseldorf, almost on the Dutch border Does this still count as Krautland? And I'm of to visit Lurpakland for a week on Suinday! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Nice job

Doc, no it isn't - I'm supposed to be on holiday from my normal job which involves............



















































travelling across the globe by sea and I'm supposed to be at home on leave. So far since mid October when I came "home" I have spent 4 days in Cambridge on a training course, 3 days in Germany on a visit to the ship managers' offices and now off to Lurpack land on another training course..... the only GOOD thing about it is that it guarantees that Gordon Brown will be sending ME a large cheque in the spring refunding all the income tax I've paid this year I'm also getting to kn ow Schipol airport very well this leave - on Monday morning the lady in the Menzies Lounge at Pier C was able to greet me using my name before I had even given her my lounge access card! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Sorry I meant "nice job" getting home through all that!

An update on the floods - heard on the 6pm R4 weather that Central Scotland had 115mm of rain between 6am today and 5pm................ and it is still throwing it down as hard as it can and blowing a storm too! Might have to put the box of recovery ropes and strops and some shackles in the boot tomorrow along with the waders and waterproofs!

Also an interesting bit on the Wx - if the temperature in Central England stay above 11C all night to night this will be the warmest December night ever recorded! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

ok you are right this aint Vaterland...  
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This could be a good time to invest in a snorkel Tim. Arctic Frost TDV6 SE. Aspen Leather, Cherry Wood, Privacy Glass, PTI, Tow Pack, Mudflaps, Tasmods, a new Fuelflap, a RRSport.co.uk umbrella in the boot & a RRSport.co.uk sticker on the rear glass.
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TB wrote:

This could be a good time to invest in a snorkel Tim.

Have one on my 90 but the RRS snorkel isn't a snorkel - it's a raised intake as it doesn't have a watertight joint with the intake hole where it pases through the wing so you can still only wade into 50cm of water, even with the LR "snorkel". Something LR Accessories dept needs to look into methinks. My watertight Safari snorkel and the raised breathers on the axles and gearbox of my 90 means I can take it into water has deep as I like and only have to wrry about drowning me

Very Annoyed wrote:

Tim - excuse my ignorance but if you're involved with ships how come you had a training course in Cambridge - not really a deep water port there!

Tim in Scotland wrote:

involved in 2 incidents which have resulted in a $50million insurance claim.......................... .

Gald to see someone has had a bigger insurance claim than you then VA

Sorry couldn't resist:  Kevin