London Ninja

In the middle of my flat hunt, the weather decided to take an interesting turn. In the 6 weeks I’ve been in London, it has rained quite a bit but usually for short stints. So it might come down for 15 minutes but then the sun will come back out. This time, however, the rain seemed to keep coming down for about an hour before the sun came back out. Apparently this city of rain doesn’t actually handle rain very well. None of the drainage is able to handle a torrent of rain and hence the city gets flooded.

We literally sat in the car for like 30 mins and then tried to make an apartment viewing by running in the rain. When we got near the street, we realized we couldn’t get to the apartment building cuz of the flooding. When we called the agent, they said they couldn’t get there either. Later they told us they got like a foot of sewage in their office building. Pee-ew!!! (do they still say that in elementary school?)

Here are some of the pictures I took on the Chiswick High Street.

Cruising down the Chiswick High Street, snapping away like a tourist, which I am.

More shots of Chiswick High Street

Some poor chap crossing the street

It’s pretty astounding that London can’t handle a little bit of rain. It’s like New York not being able to handle the snow, or California not being able to handle the heat. Or the Chinese not being able to handle the rats. WTF.