So I have had a very eventful weekend, on Saturday my wife and I decided to go meet with friends and have dinner.
We went to a place in Bournemouth which is an all you can eat restaurant which does Chinese, Indian, Japanese type foods. They have a lot of different things you can try which is great if you don't know what you like, and because it means if you don't like it you're not really paying for it.
The rain was pretty bad and the drive was not nice, it was hard to see the puddles as it was dark and there seemed to be quite a bit of fog around.
We met our friends at the car park near by at about 5:45pm, and we had previously booked a table for 6:00pm because it has been known to be quite busy sometimes.
We stayed for around 2 hours, enough to get our money's worth and till we had no room left.
We got outside and it was still drizzling a bit we decided to go back to my friends house and relax a bit.
The rain had really started to chuck it down most of the day. We decided to got home as it was quite late. We must have left at around 10:40pm.
I decided to take the normal route home there was quite a lot of rather large puddles but we managed to get through them. Then we came across a rather large puddle near Bishop's Caundle on the A3030. We were met with a car in front of us stuck, which was almost out of it. The woman from the car came out and said it was very deep. They managed to make it through and almost out he other side before the car cut out. We could see some headlight around the corner, the woman said another car tried to go through it from our side and managed to get stuck the other side. We decided to turn around and go an alternative route.
So we turned around and managed to go back on ourselves and go a different way home through Stalbridge towards Milborne Port. This route was much like the first route, there were fairly large puddles but with care we were able to pass them.
But the again, we must have gotten half way just outside Milborne Port on the A30 there was a much longer puddle we could see a car in middle of the puddle stuck with water pretty much up to the number plate of the car. This was not looking good. We had to turn back again. I then decided that we would have to go via Wincanton. I knew that the route from Wincanton to Yeovil was pretty good there were not too many small roads, but I was a little nervous as I wasn't sure if the route to Wincanton would be blocked again. I decided to try it anyway. So I turned back towards Henstridge then up towards Wincanton. So we managed to take the A303 then back to Yeovil. And we make it! It was probably one of the most frustrating journeys home. It had taken us nearly 2 hours to get home rather than a 35 minute journey.
I had learnt two things that day; 1. Don't make any unintentional trips when there are numerous flood warnings. And 2. Don't drive it flood water when you can't see the road.
Stay safe kids.
