Originally Posted by
jlemon
Sure would hate to arrive home to a flooded mess and a soggy BMW.......P.S. - And our National Hurricane Center (NHC) has now upgraded the aforementioned tropical weather system to Tropical Storm Olga which should make landfall on the Louisiana coast just south of us and then pass just east of Lafayette tonight.
Just so you don't feel particularly picked out, we left Fuerteventura yesterday evening in a substantial Sahara-style sandstorm, which turned to horizontal rain at the end, quite unforecast according to the pilots, and arrived back at London Stansted more than 20 degrees C cooler with everything saturated, and flooding elsewhere in the country
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-50199254