General Chat

Well,the good news is that I got back from work to find water running into the road from under the drive, the pipes under the slabs seem to have been blocked. Himself cleared them out and the water on the patio is draining away slowly. There was also a tree from next door across the drive.

The good news being that we were both out and if I hadn't been at work my car would have been under the tree.

We also had two more fence panels down, I think virtually the whole garden will have to be re- fenced when the weather bucks up now.

We had m almighty hail storm, thunder lightning the whole lot about an hour ago.just the usual wind and rain at the moment.

How is everyone else doing ? M.

Ann - if your son HAD been at work this week I don't think he would have done much driving.
With the signals waterlogged I understand they have been doing things the old fashioned way - passing tokens to each other - giving permission to drive over the next stretch.

Hi rang Aunty in East sussex she can only go one way out of village ,Mum is on a hill and the water is being diverted down the road as it comes off the hills ,
We here in co Durham have snow on the tops Stanhope ,Towlaw area which will head down to us The river Wear is dangerously high and on a watch in areas .
Darlo where i work has been swamped in areas .
Hope all are safe Son is out getting kids from school early before teh viaducts are closed later on .

my son has a week's leave this week - weather not nice, but as he's a train driver for First Great Western, Swansea to Paddington I'm rather pleased

Thanks Detective and MaryAnna...

Your poor husband must be so worried, mine is so laid back not worried at all, l'm doing that for us both.

Take care

jude x

Thanks for your kind thoughts, Detective.

M. x :-)

Jude, that is odd, we must have been typing at the same time !!

What a relief for you, thank goodness, where did it all go ?

We know the house in Somerset is OK and strangely although our son was in a panic about the brook at the end of the road flooding last year, it has stayed fairly low this year.

I think there was a big clearance operation last Spring and it has flowed much easier since. A couple of houses at the bottom end of the lane were flooded a year or two back but they seem to be fine at the moment. We are much higher than them.

Apart from probably giving Himself another Hernia, hubby seems to have found some drainage pipes under the patio. Fingers crossed.

I have to work for a couple more days this week up here, half term next week, so will leave daughter and son in law to it ( he is a big boy now !!! Just seems to forget he is and let's us do everything for him ) and go back home for a few days.

At least, as Himself took the TV aerial down earlier in the week, we don't have to put up with that awful noise any more. It was keeping everyone awake at night with the wind howling through it. It seems to work just as well in the loft.

M. x



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He was obviously worrying about it Maryanna :-D

TBH I was wondering if it would have been possible to dig a drainage channel from the patio to lower ground, but even lifting the paving slab could help.

The TV forecasters are thinking that the weather will be more gentle next week – lets hope that their predictions are right and you can go to Somerset without having to worry.

Husband had one of "those" moments in the night. No not one of "Those".

Honestly, you lot !!!

He is outside right now trying to lift some of the patio slabs. He remembered that when we had it laid nearly thirty years ago we had drainage put in so it soaked away next to the house and onto the road. Not too sure how it works but in the olden days after heavy rain, we often had people telling us the water main had burst outside and we had to tell them it was the soak away.

Not much in the way of rain overnight but the wind is getting up again now. Have decided not to leave for to go back home to Somerset for a few days. Son in law is away for a couple of days and need to be here in case daughter and grand daughter need help.

Hope everyone is OK, especially Jude.

M.

What a relief, but we still need to keep you in our thoughts for the next couple of days :-)

Morning:)

The water has gone this morning, we had an environmental phone call, email and text at 7am to say FLOOD WARNING off at River Wye Monmouth ....yippeeee...BUT more rain, high winds and snow due. Last night the river height was 4.78 having been 4.94 in the afternoon and this morning its now 4.10...yehhh
Could believe our eyes when we opened the curtains:)

MaryAnna...how are you,or have you gone to your sons. Positive thoughts in that your house is ok when you get back, this goes to anyone having same/similar probs with the floods.

jude..xx
Edit....from 5.94 to 4.94....dohhhh

We are lucky here in Norwich altho the back lawn is like a bog and the field at the end of the garden is looking very wet too.

I feel so sad for all those people who have had their homes flooded, and hope Jude, Maryanna and anyone else affected, will be safe and not have your homes spoiled.

I feel sorry for the farmers too who will have lost crops and whose fields might not be ready for planting again for many a month.

What a worry for everyone altho in most places something good is coming out of the bad situation, people are helping each other and getting to know their neighbours!

Lizx

Just watched the English news. I hope that conditions haven't got worse for anyone. My heart goes out to anyone in danger of flooding.

Wendy

I´ll take a bet that you don´t get one AnnC

thanks Uzzi - we'd all do the same!!!

thinking we should all have a refund on our water bills this year :-D

Only just read this thread and would like to say firstly.
Hats off to you AnnC what a wonderful thing to say. even though as you say the GR community is a very helpful when disaster strikes, most would have just offered quietly to those they "know". To offer as you have is amazing.

Jude and MaryAnna I hope you are still safe...Remember when you pack to take all important papers with you ..that includes insurance documents, house deeds etc as well as your tree papers :-D. fingers crossed for you both.

I have been watching the news constantly as I have family near Martock other family near Yeovil, Plymouth and in Lancing. I can´t reach the family in Martock but they could be away.

Personally I am "gobsmacked" that the use of the billions the UK have for "foreign aid" even has to be debated as to whether the UK can use it. For crying out loud if this flooding isn´t a disaster then it is beyond me what is. Get that money released and help those that need it in the country it was generated.

Stay safe everybody Thinking of you all

When the effluent starts to hit the affluent the powers that be will start to take action. :-D

Thanks Jude, the annoying thing is that we seem to be the only ones affected around here. Especially as we are up a hill

I am sure it us due to our sunken patio and run off from the fields behind us. May have to have a garden design rethink, when and if it ever dries out.

We have had a dry afternoon and I think it has subsided a wee bit, but we have a load more to come before the weekend.

Try to stay safe and dry everyone. M.

MaryAnna...wow,do hope you are ok and the house when you return from Somerset!! take care:)

We are still ok here although it has risen slightly again, reached its peak.

Thanks for the good wishes:)

jude

The only time in my lifetime I have known of anything like this was in 1953 when North Sea floods drowned 2,000 people and much property damage. And I know of Lynmouth, Hunter Valley, Glasgow in 2002 and Kent and Cumbria in 2005.

But tragic as all of those were, NOTHING compares to this. I reckon we have to go back to something like Bristol Channel floods of 1607 which drowned 2,000 people and inundated 200 square miles of agricultural and residential land round Channel in Monmouthshire, Glamorgan and Somerset.

Yet even that was localised and did not include the River Thames. This looks like being the biggest disaster ever in UK outside wartime and plague. And I have a feeling that the men and women of the Environment Agency and the Emergency Services will deserve our plaudits when it is over. We have learned a lot from previous flooding. Perhaps policy (eg dredging) will need to be looked at and leadership at the very top, but the British spirit is winning against all the odds.