Apocalyptic rain

[aquilegia]

Blimey it's chucking it down - what's it like where you are? Any weather damage?

Tuesday night/Wednesday morning I was awoken by a minute long clap of thunder. I was confused (I'm always confused when I wake up!) as to what it was.

Last night the rain woke me up again. Lashing against the windows. I was worried it was coming through the closed window as it was so loud!

This morning - everything was in it's place in the garden, but the pond had overflowed. The garden path slopes downwards and some of the decking out there had moved. I'd loved to have seen it floating off!

[aquilegia]

[eileen]

Not much damage here Aqui, thank goodness, but (as you've no doubt heard on the news) not far away from us there's been serious flooding. I'm just glad I live on a hill!!

Know what you mean about your pond overflowing - same her - and still the rain comes down!!  :(

Eileen.

[Pixie]

Its still very sad here in Cornwall I only live and work a matter of miles from Boscastle (as EJ knows).

It wasn't just Boscastle - neighbouring villages got hit by the flooding but Bostcastle and Crackington were very bad. There are still people missing.

One of my collegues has friends who are in the local rescue services and they have been visiting her and her husband to have meals, pack lunches made up for them etc then returning.

I'm so pleased everyone in Scotland is okay and that there is no one missing.

Sam

[Pixie]

On a happier note I was watching the TV special report on Boscastle last night and one of the chaps they interviewed was on his lottie (lovely lotties half way down the hill, I had complete bean envy last time I passed them) and he was saying that the silt will improve his soil and that he had never been able to grow carrotts before and now maybe he could! ;D

Talk about looking on the bright side!

Sam

[TrailRat]

Has rained here something terrible for the past 3 hours. went to my allotment to see how it was coping and to drain the DPM I'd laid down. I am now considering rice growing. Hopefully now the majority of the bindweed has gone and this rain will help with the rotavating. Almost lost a shoe to the mud though. Has filled my new (salvaged) waterbutt.

[Pixie]

Rain has finally stopped here - I'm off to see if any of my lottie neighbours are around - no ones been on any of the lotties all week after work with the weather and introduce myself ;D

Sam

[Steven]

Blimey,the rain didnt half come down yesterday.Mine and the other 4 houses in this row had a few problems with our drains-they were overflowing! Fortunately,i got off lucky because nextdoors drain spilled out the nasty parts of what goes through sewer pipes and i got just rain water ut of mine  :)

Was a bit touch and go though because if it carried on raining that hard,the water could backed up inside the soil pipe and flooded the house-which wouldnt be too good...

[Mrs Ava]

Oh Yuck Bubble, not great at all!  Glad things are looking up a little in Cornwall Pixie.  I am guess the lovely pottery was washed away as that was right next to the carpark.  And the flooding in Scotland also!  I listen to radio 2 all day almost every week day when pottering around, and the traffic reports and news reports have been filled with tragic events caused because of all the weather!  Here in wet Essex, I am back to hearing the water trickling though my lawn, the pond overflowed, but has cleared nicely in the process, and in the garden, the plants have put on a sudden surge of growth, so everythin glooks lovely and healthy, if not a little battered.  Going to the allotment tomorrow for the first time properly in a week (did pop up there for corn picking midweek, but didn't really look around tooooooooooo hard).  SO well drained up there tho, I am expecting the ground to still be quite dry.

[john_miller]

Was this the remnants of Hurricane Charley? It missed here last weekend, Boston got a lot of rain from it though, and I was wondering if the U.K. would see it. We got well over an inch today again, in a system that extends along a lot of the East coast, so I imagine the U.K. will get this storm late this coming week. More for us on Monday and Tuesday too. Just what we need.

[Hugh_Jones]

John, according to the Met. Office the floods in Cornwall and Perthshire were attributable to the influence of a tropical storm "Bonnie".  Tomorrow the forecast is for a further deluge - this time from the tail end of hurricane Danielle.

Charlie hasn`t had a mention yet, so presumably it`s still on the way here.

[john_miller]

We got Bonnie last Friday (I think- all the rain is running together in my mind now). Both it and Charley hit Florida in the same 24 hour period. Perhaps they combined over the Atlantic? Charley was certainly picking up speed as it went over Boston. Danielle missed the U.S. entirely (unless I just missed it- wonders what happened to Esther, another one I lost track of?).  

[Jesse]

Hi everyone, I'm back from a week in Cornwall. We were staying not too far from Boscastle. I feel for all those people who live there and also the people on holiday who were unlucky to be affected by the floods. I have never seen heavy rain like it before, didn't know it was possible to have so much rain and to hear that yet more is coming, no no no, when will it stop!?

[Doris_Pinks]

I am starting building my Ark at the bottom of the garden, so far only got 2 Guinea Pigs, and they are both female!  Anyone care to join?! ;D

[Mrs Ava]

DP, I have 2 kids you can put in your ark, a boy and a girl.  Drop them back when they are about 21 and house trained!  ;) ;D ;)

[Doris_Pinks]

Hahahahahaha

[Garden Manager]

We've gotten off pretty lightly here in dorset. Rain but none of the 'Apocalyptic' stuff that Cornwall and Scotland have been having. That said it certainly chucked it down here last night.

The 'incident' at Boscastle was certinly terrible for all involved, but it could've been a lot worse. I think it was an absolute miracle there were no fatalities.

[TrailRat]

Rained hard here. So hard that our yard at work has two inches of surface water. Our drainage network just ain't cut out for it. The canal that runs parallel to our yard has risen and debris is blocking an overflow inlet that keeps it from flooding. Storage sheds for the stock that has to stay dry have now been barricade with tonnie bags of sand. Its looking like we might have to serve customer in canoes soon. We had a drainage firm come to look at our network of drain, which by the way run straight into the canal. They said they'd have to bring a "detonator" to clear the pipes. What is a "detonator" I'd like know. Phoned up the council body that deals with the overflow inlet and they said they'd be there Thursday at the latest. So from Atlantis Civil Suppliers  ;D good day.

TrailRat

[Garden Manager]

Once again I have reason to be thankfull for the local topography and geology. Thanks to the hills and the porous chalk they're made of, even heavy rain causes few problems in my neighbourhood.

We had another dose of really heavy rain last night, but thanks to the good drainage its now drying up nicely again.