Anybody else enjoying the mayhem in eastern London today? 
Presently sat on the roundabout outside Stobart Dagenham depot. Been here best part of 20 minutes, not moving at all.
I started in Northfleet at 09.15 this morning, decided to go via A2 and Woolwich ferry rather than the A12. ā¦
Wasnāt it only a couple of week ago parts of London got flash floods and there were pictures in the press of them cars and a bus stuck in about 4 foot of water under that railway bridge and that bell end in the suit who escaped out of his car window with the water level almost up to his roof?
Now I call him a bell end because Iām no Einstein but Iām pretty sure that 4 foot of water didnāt miraculously appear just as they were driving on that street and had in fact been there when the slack ā ā ā ā ā decided that their 1 and half tonne cars would whizz through 4 foot of water with no problems 
Folk like that deserve all they get and the repair bills it will cost to fix their motors.
Went down into London (Chelsea) via M1/A406/A40 this morning. Traffic News woman basically saying āItās all gone to ratshitā with a list of major road closures, but as it happened I arrived only 5 minutes later than planned . I think the closure of the A40 at Perivale due to flooding actually helped me by throttling the inbound traffic. Left Chelsea about 0830 and made my way across the river to the Lambeth Palace Road. Busy, but nothing out of the ordinary for that time of the morning. Then across the river again to Homerton. Quite slow in the City, but again nothing out of the ordinary. Then out on the A12 to the North Circular and back to base (Northampton) before 2pm.
Itās London - chaos seems to come as standard.
SteveBarnsleytrucker:
Wasnāt it only a couple of week ago parts of London got flash floods and there were pictures in the press of them cars and a bus stuck in about 4 foot of water under that railway bridge and that bell end in the suit who escaped out of his car window with the water level almost up to his roof?
Now I call him a bell end because Iām no Einstein but Iām pretty sure that 4 foot of water didnāt miraculously appear just as they were driving on that street and had in fact been there when the slack [zb] decided that their 1 and half tonne cars would whizz through 4 foot of water with no problems
Folk like that deserve all they get and the repair bills it will cost to fix their motors.
Yes - One of our drivers had basically the same run as mine and it took him four hours to get from Northampton to Chelsea.
Got stuck on the 25 this mornin at the a2 junction right up to the Dartford tunnels and on the other side was chaos aswell ended up out of time and parked it on the hard shoulder just after the tunnel exit
Thank God I took today and tomorrow off.
I thought you were going to say all roads around Esher with strategically placed floods and a fallen tree causing loads of aggro.
Coming back up the M11 early this morning and it looked like it was going to be bad. Very impressive thunderstorm though.
the nodding donkey:
Presently sat on the roundabout outside Stobart Dagenham depot. Been here best part of 20 minutes, not moving at all.
I started in Northfleet at 09.15 this morning, decided to go via A2 and Woolwich ferry rather than the A12. ā¦
Drivers moaning about the job, how predictable
all I can say is thank Christ I donāt touch the motorways or London now, my work is mainly local from my base
Yeah but at least the damp weather has cleared the flies off the screen!
Is this a phenomenon of the 21st century, severe downpours, thunder storms, high winds etc. ? Iām sure this sort of weather has been around for eons ?
Or is it that people just DONāT KNOW HOW TO DRIVE ANYMORE 
Page up and read the comment about the numpty climbing out of his car 
I did chuckle to my self when I heard Lynn bolwes this morning say about this as usually in London on Thursdays but I had a night out and slept on A38 near liskeard then when to Newquay in the nice bright sunshine and dry roads 
the nodding donkey:
Presently sat on the roundabout outside Stobart Dagenham depot. Been here best part of 20 minutes, not moving at all.
I started in Northfleet at 09.15 this morning, decided to go via A2 and Woolwich ferry rather than the A12. ā¦
I did 3 hours from asda on one side of the roundaboutā¦ To screw fix on the other side
What were you driving? I was there at the same time
The thing I noticed this morning was where all the larger houses have had their front gardens blocked, slabbed or concreted over all the rainwater was running down their drives and onto the roads and then, obviously, into the already overflowing drains. Years ago most of this would have been held by the lawns and flowerbeds.
Also, of course, it doesnāt help that most of the drains are covered in rubbish and debris.
Beau Nydel:
The thing I noticed this morning was where all the larger houses have had their front gardens blocked, slabbed or concreted over all the rainwater was running down their drives and onto the roads and then, obviously, into the already overflowing drains. Years ago most of this would have been held by the lawns and flowerbeds.
Also, of course, it doesnāt help that most of the drains are covered in rubbish and debris.
Was you listening to heart Essex this morning Rob? They were talking about the same thing
Essex Jay? No only listen to planet rock on the digi these days. Too much mindless babble on the beeb etc. Although I must admit this morning a bit of local info might have been handy. Swung off the 12 thru Billericay, still took 4 hours Fxo to Crawley. Mind hell of a wheel wash at the Fortune of War!!!
I heard it was a wash out through there
