Rain, rain, go away...

I wasn't planning on writing again so soon, but of all things the weather has forced me into it. It would seem we are currently in the midst of the strongest storm to hit France/Spain in a decade and it would seem that Pau is pretty much situated in the epicentre in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques...oh joy! (I know being from Manchester means that I am used to cold weather and rain...but really, I mean, there is no need to take it to the extreme!) Sod's law, I have just found out that it is sunny, dry and mild at home today too...this is probably payback for when I gloated about our picnic in the park last Saturday when it was sunny here and chucking it down at home...you always know these things will come back to haunt you at some point, haha.
Just been on the BBC Website and the storm is the top story, so told Mum to keep an eye out for if it's on the news at home, wouldn't surprise me, I mean seems all British people do is talk about the weather (this blog being a prime example!) and usually complain about it being either too cold or too hot...seems there is just no pleasing us whatsoever...however if I had to choose, I would much rather be boiling hot than freezing cold any day.
Back to today, I really hope we don't have a powercut as apparently many homes in the region are without power...having said that we had a powercut for all of twenty minutes last Sunday for no reason whatsoever, so if we did have one at least it would kind of have a purpose not that I would condone it.
Decided to brave the elements earlier on before realising the severity of the situation (ignorance really is bliss). Given that I assumed I had just missed a bus by a few minutes I walked into the town centre, which once I arrived I realised was pretty pointless given that a lot of shops either hadn't opened at all or had closed early due to the weather, so was there for about an hour as I know buses only come around once an hour on a Saturday. Sat down and got my i-pod out in order to make my 15 minute wait that bit more bearable and it was only when a woman came and told me that she had just rang up to ask about buses that I found out there were none running...grrr, no signs up or anything, would have been helpful! Had to make the return journey on foot then too, although I was quite alert and decisive about where I walked given that there were some broken bricks along the side of the road/on the pavements which I assumed had been blown off the roof in the wind...hoped and prayed I'd survive! Think I am going to stay in now, don't really fancy heading back out, especially as it looks as though the rain is pelting down harder than it was before, ah well, night in with DVDs it is! :)