M40 and Oxford -nightmare today

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Fri 20 Jul 2007 21:54
M40 and Oxford -nightmare today - wotspur
The other subjects on the severe weather were generalised, but today London to Banbury to Brize Norton and back again. Yes it was bad on the way up, but the return journey around Oxford was a nightmare
I have never seen so many lakes and stranded cars as I have today, along the A40 between Witney and Burford, and all surrounding "short cuts" there were roads cut off and 50 cars swamped.
Also heard on the local radio, a German police officer came out of a pub in the Oxford area, and turned into what he thought was a flooded road, only to disapper into a canal- whose got the full story
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Fri 20 Jul 2007 22:29
M40 and Oxfors -nightmare today - Dave E
Nephew lives in Shipton Under Wychwood and we had been staying in Minster Lovell. It was raining solid from waking up at 5 this morning. When we left for home at 11 it was still hard at it in Shipton and was not draining away. We rang at 5 and they said the garden was under water and it was rising, not very good at all.
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Fri 20 Jul 2007 23:23
M40 and Oxford -nightmare today - Bill Payer
whose got the full story

I think it happened a week or so ago:
tinyurl.com/38lxtt
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