While today's gale-force winds and rain isn't much fun, there was much water-related fun last night on Abel Smith Street.

Late last night a water main on The Terrace burst, sending a torrent of water gushing down Abel Smith.

Rather than snuggling up under their duvets, local residents instead leapt out of bed and turned the infrastructure malfunction into an inpromptu waterslide, using recycling bins, deckchairs - anything they could get their hands on - to slide down the street. Awesome!

Even better - a video was made!

Thanks to _june's Twitter Tweets for the reportage.
Video by MrJudkins.