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Duck59 said:
It was sunny for most of Saturday, but then as evening came on, we had a thunderstorm of quite epic proportions. We don't often get very heavy rain; mostly, it's drizzly stuff, but it was akin to the sort of rainfall you see in tropical regions. Loud thunder and flashes of lightning went on for some time. All we needed was a Gothic castle.

It's difficult to do justice to the storm in a photo, but this gives you some idea.

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Typical Scottish day?? Lol.

Russ
 
Saturday morning

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This morning...

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rascal said:
Real contrast eh?

Russ
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It was the panic in the Facebook groups locally that we had to laugh at. Everyone was convinced that the road would be closed across the top (we're the highest point). Would they need their 4x4? No...... we went out in our SUV. now ok, I'll concede it is AWD but it never left tarmac mode. We certainly didn't need to put it in snow mode! Locally we do have a very steep incline with hairpin bends, side of the road collapsing and nothing there to hold it up so tarmac just gets added when the dip becomes too much. The road is only tarmac because of the gradient (a common feature on steep and very steep hills featuring gravel roads). It doesn't get gritted. Nothing does in this part of Australia. If it's icy and tarmac expect it to be slippy. Anyhow that hill was totally fine and when we dropped out of low cloud there was very little evidence it had even snowed.

We just had to laugh, we really did. Unless you read it, you wouldn't believe it. We didn't dare ever point out what we had driven our old A4 Quattro in back in Scotland (so deep that the front bumper was acting as a snow plough) or my old 2 wheel drive Ford Escort 1.6 Ghia (mk3) again seriously deep but as a teenager I learnt my snow driving in that in the Pennies in England. Steep gradients there were normal.

There was even a major Aussie rules football game cancelled because if the weather.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
It was the panic in the Facebook groups locally that we had to laugh at. Everyone was convinced that the road would be closed across the top (we're the highest point). Would they need their 4x4? No...... we went out in our SUV. now ok, I'll concede it is AWD but it never left tarmac mode. We certainly didn't need to put it in snow mode! Locally we do have a very steep incline with hairpin bends, side of the road collapsing and nothing there to hold it up so tarmac just gets added when the dip becomes too much. The road is only tarmac because of the gradient (a common feature on steep and very steep hills featuring gravel roads). It doesn't get gritted. Nothing does in this part of Australia. If it's icy and tarmac expect it to be slippy. Anyhow that hill was totally fine and when we dropped out of low cloud there was very little evidence it had even snowed.

We just had to laugh, we really did. Unless you read it, you wouldn't believe it. We didn't dare ever point out what we had driven our old A4 Quattro in back in Scotland (so deep that the front bumper was acting as a snow plough) or my old 2 wheel drive Ford Escort 1.6 Ghia (mk3) again seriously deep but as a teenager I learnt my snow driving in that in the Pennies in England. Steep gradients there were normal.

There was even a major Aussie rules football game cancelled because if the weather.
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About 20 years ago I had to get home from Westport, it was bucketing down and the river was in flood. There's a strip of one way road called Hawks crag, I drove my sr5 double cab hilux through about 4 ft of water, I could have been swept away. I'll try to get a pic of the place
 
Some photos from today. I ate lunch in Washington Park in Cincinnati and then had a little ramble around.

@morning glory - I've included the first (of many) murals for you.

Music Hall
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Another of Music Hall
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Mural "The Golden Muse"
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Street View, Over-The-Rhine Neighborhood
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Former German Church, now an event space, new Shakespeare Company Theatre to the left
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TastyReuben said:
Some photos from today. I ate lunch in Washington Park in Cincinnati and then had a little ramble around.

@morning glory - I've included the first (of many) murals for you.

Music Hall
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Another of Music Hall
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Mural "The Golden Muse"
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Street View, Over-The-Rhine Neighborhood
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Former German Church, now an event space, new Shakespeare Company Theatre to the left
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Thank you! This is a USA I don't know anything about and I'm fascinated.
 
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