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Anyone Flooded Yet
Our carpark is about 4" deep in water now and the cut across the road which has no more than about 8" of water is now topping its banks which makes it about 8 feet deep and ready to wash across the road.
Best get me waterwings out
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quote Nigel Pugh – Grafityp:Our carpark is about 4″ deep in water nowthank god i dont work there, ide be upto my neck in it now 😳 :lol1:
nice and dry here! kinda humid too 😀 doing wonders for my hayfever 😕
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Very wet but no flooding…..
(glad im at home nige, and lucky for me the canal on which I live at the side of doesnt flood 😀 )
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quote :and lucky for me the canal on which I live at the side of doesnt floodFamous last words kate 😀 😀 😀
John
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yeah nice and dry here too. The clouds are breaking up and there’s blue sky peeping through.
Thought Scotland was the wet country? We’ve had loads less rain than you guys over the last couple of months!!!!!
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Well since I posted my way of getting home looks bleak if driving, probably will end up walking 🙁
Yeah you are in the best place Kate, snug n warm 😛
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quote Marcella:yeah nice and dry here too. The clouds are breaking up and there’s blue sky peeping through.Thought Scotland was the wet country? We’ve had loads less rain than you guys over the last couple of months!!!!!
Seeing the news tonight… you guys have had some serious downpours. They say that the bad weather is heading for Scotland and Ireland Marcella, so you may get that bad weather yet.
We have not had any significant rains for over a month 🙁
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It was very very bad,
I got caught in Gloucester in a tranny van with a work mate, could not get back to S Wales.
We ploughed through a river in the road, the water came up to the bonnet and our wake caused fire responce car (who thought it would be ok to overtake us!) to lift off the road and float side ways into us.
We tried every route but the flooding had vans flooded to the windows (a good 5-6 foot in parts), we ended up in Tewksbury centre of after 7-8 hours of tiring hard driving to get caught in the worst we saw – the centre is like a island and it stranded us.
We dont get flooding where I live and to see what it really can do is shocking, trees, walls cars smashed and under water
We parked up at 12 am for a kip in the van to be woken up at about 3am ish by the sound of sea-king’s. A car was washed in to the flood and at 6 or so they stopped, I didn’t see this (I parked out the way of it) but an on looker said the car just vanished under the water, the same coppers then had to rescue a camp site as the water getting very high(looked a bit rough for the boats)
We got a break as the A38/M50 junction had dropped a few inches enough to plough the van up the bank and we joined the M5.
Over 18 hours later we got back, a bit of damage to the van.
But people were in good spirits and the local abbey started doing tea and coffee for people.
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Its getting close 😕 this is Pershore near Worcester… the fist pic is out of my window… hope it does not get any higher (drown)
Nick.
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quote Shane Drew:quote Marcella:yeah nice and dry here too. The clouds are breaking up and there’s blue sky peeping through.
Thought Scotland was the wet country? We’ve had loads less rain than you guys over the last couple of months!!!!!
They say that the bad weather is heading for Scotland and Ireland Marcella, so you may get that bad weather yet.
Nah!!!!!!!!!!! Anyway I live on a hill ………… it’ll run off even if it does rain! 😀
Bloody hell Nick! 😮 Get yer wellies oot!!!!!!!!!!!!! You’ll need a canoe to get to work instead of a car!
If it rains here I’ll let you know. Today it was not bad again. I spent the day in my brothers garden at my nieces birthday party! 😀
Not that sunny, but pleasantly warm and dry.
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the only bad weather i have here is ive got the open fire on and the heating too………. 😮 its freezin…and spitting rain 😕
nik
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we managed to do two vans today but we are not in a flood area, just dodging the heavy showers, normally we would have had them done before lunch , must agree Nik I was contemplating putting the heating on !!!! settled for a sweater instead as Lil isn’t here .
nick M how are you going on??Lynn
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quote Shane Drew:Seeing the news tonight… you guys have had some serious downpours. They say that the bad weather is heading for Scotland and Ireland Marcella, so you may get that bad weather yet.🙁
It’s here Shane! been raining heavily almost everyday for a month now!
Has been a very very bad summer, haven’t sat outside for an evening yet.
Going on hols next week though….guess were?? ………..England 😮 😮 …..lol……better bring me wellies! -
quote Lynn:nick M how are you going on??
It looks like its subsiding at the moment, went to work this morning and came back lunch time and it was like that 😮 there is alot worse of than me though,
its very bad in Evesham and Worcester see what happens tomorrow 😕Nick.
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Harry if your English hol’s bring you near us you will be more than welcome 😀
Lynn
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makes you glad it’s summer though 🙄
Lynn
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Thanks for the offer Lynn…you’d never know, we might be in that neck of the woods……we are based at my wife’s sisters near Brixton and between them they have designed my itinerary! I wouldn’t argue with two of them though!!! 😀 😀
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I think thats London isn’t it Harry ? you can get a train with your children to the bottom of our road fetch the children wife sister in law etc. to see us. forgot to say Harry we are near Whipsnade Zoo and Woburn safari park.
Lynn
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I will certainly look into that Lynn……. Woburn looks interesting for the boys, hope you have plenty of Jaffa cakes! 😀 😀
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no but I can get some 😀
Lynn
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wow.. well we had a inside-gutter collapse on us, so call to the landlord. they patched it but it is rusted heavily. very old building we are in.
Nick, hope things improve, no rare and precious cars in the garage is there?
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quote Dave Rowland:Nick, hope things improve, no rare and precious cars in the garage is there?
Hi Dave, its going down at the moment must have drooped 2ft now, my workshop is safe and Dynamics are next door so no problems there.
Nick.
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As long as it’s subsiding Nick!!!! 😮
Another dry day here ……….. I really hope it doesn’t head north! You can keep your weather don’t send it up to us please!!!! 😉
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Yes its going now, you can see were it was on the sports center wall 😮
guess the swimming pool will need a clean 😕
Nick
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😕 …………. I think it will Nick …………. there’s probably all sorts of nasties swimming about in there now!!!!!
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Guess I had a lucky escape as I was moving house in North Wales. I left Aldershot at 10am on Friday and headed straight for the M4 (via Bracknell), not too many problems however the rain was coming down hard. Once on the M4 there was a drastic slow down due to the combination of rain and spray. The worst bit was passing Reading as the outside lane was just starting to fill with water making driving impossible. I then had a clear run to Swindon (still raining very hard). Only got bad when I pulled off the M5 on a brief delivery to Ashchurch at 12ish where the road was slightly flooded, Tewkesbury amazingly was still dry!!!. Back on the M5 I set off north towards Birmingham when the information signs flashed up "Ques Ahead". I dived off at J7 and skirted round Worcester and through many flooded roundabouts. From there on it was easy driving, couple of raging torrents across the road but nothing impassable. A journey I normally do in 5 1/2 hours took 7 so not too bad giving the weather conditions and I was driving a laden transit!!!
On the trip back down on Sunday I had a nice view from the top of Birdlip back over Gloucestershire………..LOTS of water EVERYWHERE!!!
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Raining again now, all the shops are closed or empty of food or milk 😮 just hope the power stays on 😕
Nick
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Just had my trip back to Ashchurch on Thursday canceled due to lack of power and soggy hangers, plus any excuse for the MOD not to do work!!!!
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First here it was the water trying to get to the Thames now everyone is praying the Thames holds all it’s got for the next 36 Hrs we are on high alert.
This was partially flooded at 2pm Friday – then clear at 5pm – then by midnight – the river made it’s own route to the Thames 😕
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Doesn’t look like they have many rooms!
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But they really do have a moat 😮
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That’s it, no water in the taps at home or work and they’re telling us we could be without water for upto 14 days (good job most of my staff fit vinyl dry 😀 ).
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quote Chris Dowd:That’s it, no water in the taps at home or work and they’re telling us we could be without water for upto 14 days (good job most of my staff fit vinyl dry 😀 ).
OMG really???? Where are you Chris?
I’m shocked the situation is getting worse! 🙁 😮 -
We are in Cheltenham, lost water about 2 hours ago, people in Gloucester and Tewkesbury lost their supply earlier today, and several thousand homes are without electricity.
No news on any bowsers in Cheltenham as yet although Severn Trent are saying their are 600 in the County! Water from the boswers will be limited to 2 litres per person!
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………….. and you probably still have a hosepipe ban!!!!!!!!! 😉
In all seriousness though, I really hope any of you affected by the floods are all OK and that your homes are safe and businesses too. 🙁
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this really is an appalling state of affairs, it is all around us but we are not affected at all, if we can do anything to help you guys who are just shout,
hot shower, bed for the nite , cup of coffee, cut vinyl etc.Lynn
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Hey Friends, been watching the news here, I recognize a few towns… hope you all keep safe.
Amazing you guys are having this weather in your summer. Thats the weather we usually have here, not for a few years now though. We have no water at all. Could do with a flood. Nothing but blue skys for weeks on end now.
Thinking of you all, not much help I know, but please take care.
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take care all
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quote Lynn:it is all around us but we are not affected at all, if we can do anything to help you guys who are just shout, hot shower, bed for the nite , cup of coffee, cut vinyl etc.Likewise, if we can do anything to help anyone, we would be pleased to do it.
We sit on top of our limestone hill, at four hundred feet above sea level, so are pretty much immune to flooding ourselves.
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We had bowsers delivered in the streets at 2am this morning (one just outside my house), even got one on the Industrial Estate, so we’re lucky really (it could be a lot worse for us!).
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And me too, happy to help anyone out that needs it, just ask!
Although we have had LOTS of rain the Broads Authority’s drainage works over the last few years seem to be doing the trick. Rivers are high but not flooding-as yet.
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quote Chris Dowd:We had bowsers delivered in the streets at 2am this morning (one just outside my house), even got one on the Industrial Estate, so we’re lucky really (it could be a lot worse for us!).
One question…. What do you mean by ‘bowser’? I’m not sure I understand. A Bowser here is a pump at a service station 😕 😳
I’m thinking your bowser my be a water pump?
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think a bowser is a mobile tank for water or any liquidShane, it has been used here to describe a ‘drunk’ …a ‘bowsie’, which is the same thing until he/she falls over… 😀 😀 😀
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Shane, a bowser is a tank on wheels. A trailer for transporting liquids.
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Thanks John and Harry. That clears it up. 🙂
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Thanks Shane
I was wondering that myself
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