London-Just. Stop. Raining

[marisol]

That was the unusual plea published in an editorial in The Times of London on Saturday, a measure of Britons' growing frustration
with months of miserable weather.

"Let us make our position crystal clear: We are against this weather."

Quoted from the Times of London.

[Random Panther]

I know what they mean,it has been raining pretty much constantly here also.

[marisol]

Seattle weather has been pretty decent since I got here, it could be worse.

[StormInateacup]

Oh. Their expensive sports carnival will be ruined!

What a shame. They've cancelled Glastonbury for no reason then. I mean the music lovers showed up every year, no matter how damp the weather. Seems arm chair sports fans aren't quite so tough.

[StormInateacup]

Well, the rain may not have stopped, but apparently the traffic has.

A 32 mile standstill leading from Heathrow Airport to London was just the start of their troubles. Once they get to London, no one can find the Olympic Village. Must have retreated into the mists, as Cornwall did a few centuries ago.



According to The Telegraph:

Scores of Olympic athletes and officials have been making circuitous routes around London as untrained bus drivers transporting them from Heathrow airport have been lost en route to the Olympic Park in Stratford. Two buses containing Americans and Australians were lost, one for nearly four hours, the other three hours this morning, even though their route was supposed to be fast-tracked by the implementation of the Olympic lane on the M4.
Read the rest here.
12.20 Jacquelin Magnay, Telegraph Sport's Olympics Editor, has just called in to report another almighty blot on Locog's copybook in transporting athletes from airport to their temporary home in east London, on the Olympic Park.
As with Kerron Clement's coach, the Australian team's transport bus got lost. Somewhere around West Ham the driver made this fact known and, not being able to work GPS, he handed over navigation responsibilities to the team doctor.
Next problem: the Olympic Park was not programmed on to the GPS system and so it took the iPhone GPS of a member of the backroom staff to guide them – finally – to the Olympic Park.

I don't know why people expected a city which already experiences daily congestion and travel difficulties to the extent London does to be able to cope with the massive influx of extra bodies and vehicles an event of this type is bound to engender.

Why the residents of cities bidding for the Games continue to support efforts to "win" it is anyone's guess. They spend Millions and millions just trying to get the chance to have chaos reign in their home towns for a month.

If you win, it's billions it costs. The economic returns are always in the negative for all rate payers and anyone not directly involved in tourism. It baffles me.

[The Mad Hatter]

Damn, we could sure use some of that rain.