What is the wettest place you have ever been to?

Ziplock just noticed your comment, stair rods 😄nice to know other people use that expression.

Atlanta Georgia, then a tornado warning, all into the hotel basement.

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Ziplock just noticed your comment, stair rods 😄nice to know other people use that expression.

Yes I also say stair rods.

I haven't travelled much, but having lived (briefly) in both southern Spain and the Canary islands, I can certainly say that heavy rain in both of those places is way heavier than any heavy rain I have ever encountered here. Roads turn into rivers in minutes.
While I have been caught out by flash flooding here in the UK, it has never been on the same scale.

I lived in the west of Scotland for a few years, I think THAT was the wettest place I'd ever been to !!

Five years ago on the A143 between Scole and Bury St Edmunds.

We were travelling from Southwold towards Oxford. All of a sudden the clouds came over so thickly that it was like night and everyone turned their lights on - then the rain started.....

It was so heavy that without exception all cars and other vehicles on the road had to pull into the side because even with headlights on the rain reduced visibility to nil.

The rain lasted about 15 minutes. The roads were awash and most of us waited for some of it to drain away before we resumed our journeys.

Derbyshire, camping. I floated.

Cork, Ireland - horizontal rain

We lived in the Ribble Valley for a few years, it was so wet!

We moved to East Yorkshire, our son was still at school in Lancashire, he used to phone and tell us how wet it was, we kept quiet re the wonderful weather we were enjoying.

Melbourne and it always surprises you! Sun shining one minute and torrential downpour the next

Camping in Somerset as a girl guide . It rained for days , the tents leaked , we couldn’t get dry and we all went home early .
As an adult Thailand during monsoon season . Rain like stair rods

Wales

I lived in south Wales for twenty years and it rained most days. My third baby was born in August and she was nine weeks old before I could hang nappies out to dry.

I have family in Bergen, where it rains a lot - one of the wettest places in Western Europe, but I have had training, as my university years were spent in Manchester.

I live there - Wales 😫 rain 🌧️ ☔️

In the 60s we were walking over the Yorkshire Moors in a thunderstorm and got soaked through to our skin. A couple of years ago I was driving to Wembley to see a show I'd been given tickets for. The heavens opened and rain just poured down, The windscreen wipers couldn't cope and every one was driving slower, and slower. In the end I saw a turning off the main road and turned back towards home. It had become far too scary to carry on.

Key Largo when we were hit by Hurricane Kathrina while on holiday.
The rain fall was so fierce it was a sheet of solid white, and we were not in the eye of it.

Wales for me too.
DH used to make frequent trips to Pembrokeshire for work so he would arrange them to coincide with half term breaks.
Break?? Not for me it wasn’t with him at work and me trying to keep three children amused in non stop rain. 😫

Helsinki. Never been so wet in our lives!

Barbados when a tropical rainstorm came out of nowhere and flooded the island.It took us four hours for what should have taken 40 minutes to get back to the hotel, we had found a taxi driver who was willing to risk the drive but every road he turned down was under water and he had to turn back so many times.I have been to Barbados numerous times and have never experienced rain like it.

Mauritius, where I was born and brought up. The rainfall “upcountry” where we lived was over 200” p.a. Summer was especially wet, to which if you add the frequent cyclones…
An ex-pat once commented that if she sat down for more than an hour, she’d be covered in mould!

I live here . The place that gets the rain first, South.West Wales.

August, 1976 in the South of France. Whilst the UK basked in a heatwave we were enduring floods and had to pack up a very soggy tent and return home. ☹️

In Queensland once when a tropical rainstorm appeared out of nowhere, including thunder and lightning crashing down. They had some bad floods that year. Our grandson was with us and only little, very scared.

We had twenty years of rain in Wales. I never wore a coat just a wax jacket which had to be replaced regularly.
Singapore. We were there for three days and the rain started when we arrived and stopped when we were at the airport ready to leave.
We’ve visited since and had lovely weather.