[jaysay]

I remember that day well, it was the first Saturday of Accy holidays and the day after was my 18th birthday, can remember going in the Duke of Wellington on Abbey Street for my first legal pint. There was a lot of flooding in Ossy, the Plantation (foxhill nature reserve) was all under water, so was the the land where the scout hut is (or was) opposite the Nash Club, the unmade road which goes past Gayle's house was like a river. It started raining about 11am, can remember I just managed to get home from doing the shopping in Accy because my parents had set off early on holiday and missed all the bad weather, the skies were inky black, then the heavens opened never seen it rain as hard since that day, it was a freak storm which lasted for about 30 minutes, yet in the afternoon it was a really warm sunny, with not a hint of what had gone before