Storm Bert, apparently. He's brought a lot of rain. I went for a run on the same route I took three days earlier and it was completely flooded.
The oak you can see in the background of the first picture featured on the Autumn Still post a few days ago.
The path had become a pond.
My run story is The Eye of the World, the first book in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time epic. I've watched two seasons of the adaptation on Amazon, but of course the book is different. I like it. I don't know I'll be up for reading (or listening to) all fourteen. Anyway, it's much better than I, Julian, which I was pleased to finish or Wicked, my "go to sleep" story. Not as good as Richard Powers' Playground - but that wasn't as good as Powers' Overstory or Bewilderment. Nathan Hill's The Nix and Wellness were pretty good - a little like Jonathan Frantzen. Next up for me is Under the Blue on the Kindle and Haruki Murakami's latest on Audible.
As for the non-fiction, don't ask. I have five on the go.
And as for the floods... this was two days later!
As well as many roads closed, the train station was flooded and that disrupted services from the north to London. Apparently the motorway was closed too. A weekend of rain and a week of mayhem.
You needed a canoe! Too much mayhem. Glad to get your fiction list. Let me know please how you get along with Under the Blue and Haruki's book.