How 's the rain with you?
Here it has been raining all day. Lots of places are flooded and people being moved out of homes.
We are fine, they garden turned into a lake earlier but it is now going down a bit, but the rain doesn't look like stopping for another 6 hours!
Others aren't so lucky, the motorways are at a standstill, over 1000 people are stranded at the Railway Station. Lots of roads out of the City are closed/ at a standstill!
I think we have it worse now than a few weeks ago, particularly as it rained during the day not the night.
We have had an inch already in Hereford and it's not stopping.
Around lunchtime it came down fast and furious, but by mid afternoon the sky was blue and full of fluffy clouds. Thankfully no flooding or damage here in my part of Chelmsford.
Had a joyous session of unblocking drains >:(
Got back in and dry and then realised I'd left a hole load of newly planted seed trays out yesterday evening so had to go get re-soaked to rescue them >:( >:(
But counting self lucky after watching the local news and the state of Shrops/Hereford/Worcs/Gloucs.
Also glad I wasn't in uni today as New St. station has been closed so would have been a long walk home.
My mums been stuck at a train station for the last 2 hours ( her boss would not let people leave early due to weather ) we have managed to get her home via a walk to another station a different route to another station and then a bus. She only nearly died once when an idiot with a rucksack knocked her and she nearly slipped into the oncomming train! lucky someone grabbed her.
I have heard she is now on the bus and should be home in another 30min phew!
hope she gets home ok cam; i had a call from hubby abour half hour ago and he's still in london even though he finished early. he's been waithing over three hours for a train and even when one leaves its going to be packed crazy and who knows if it'll get as far as southampton for any connections. dont think i'm going to see him this side of midnight. poor chap started out at five twenty this morning too. ???
I went out to take the children to scouts, some roads on the way were waist deep in water where the brook had risen and broke its banks. Another brook which is normally a foot wide is now about 50/100metres, a roaring river!
I had to go to the petrol station, there are people in there sheltering now, they cant get home!
I left them at scouts for 40 mins, turned around and went back to get them.
Now home safe, but I am thinking about those who are not able to stay in there homes tonight.
it's awful here,dark, strong winds, torrential rain,garden flooded yet again,Lincoln high st flooded yet again ::) ::) will someone get the drains fixed >:(
All I want to do, is sit outside on a warm summers evening, glass of wine in hand,
the last time I did that was in April :o/ shades x
Realy miserable here... the first evening of the summer holiday and we have been sitting inside with the lights on, heating on to dry us out, hot food and woollens. Even the poor cat is p**d off.
I'm stranded as we speak, I work 15 miles away from my home in Gloucester and unfortunatley when I tried to leave early to go home the roads were already blocked. I'm lucky in that my business has a couple of rooms upstairs with a sofa in and this pc, so I'm sat eating fish and chips and drinking a nice bottle of red before I kip down here on the sofa for the night!!
'aint it a grand summer!! ;D
Enjoy your wine. I hope that you can sleep and that things are better in the morning
Thankyou Flossie, I'm fine it's a comfortable room and I'll sleep well, I'm a deep sleeper!! The wine is just hitting the right spot as we speak!! ;) My thoughts go out to those that are stranded on roads in their cars, the local motorway near me (m50) is closed with people on it who have been stranded there for 5 hours!!! :o I'd have given up the will to live by now!
Hi Glosterwomble, I am glad that you have somewhere safe to stay!
I have just heard that they have shut the M5 through Glos. People have been stuck for 5 hours!
I hope its bright in the morning and you get home safely.
I have spoken to mum and shes fine, dads currently standed as there is someone treatening to jump off a roof so he cant get past. But hes heading home via tesco to do the weekends shopping. I have warned him to be aware that people dressed up as wizards are not a figment of his imagination!
sounds like a plan glosterwomble :-)
i had to sleep in the office about 3 years ago due to snow and the novilty wears off after an hour or 2.
Although i usualy carry a 'Ready' bag in the back of the car when i am at work. It has all the stuff i might need for getting stranded away from home. I fit it into a small holdall and its good to know its in the back of the car!
Quote from: SueSteve on July 20, 2007, 21:34:01
Hi Glosterwomble, I am glad that you have somewhere safe to stay!
I have just heard that they have shut the M5 through Glos. People have been stuck for 5 hours!
I hope its bright in the morning and you get home safely.
Thanks Sue, It really is crazy, I'm in Ledbury and I've owned my business here for 16 years and NEVER experienced this sort of weather!!
The main high street outside my shop has been a river since 3pm today, unbelievable.
what do you sell have you had any flooding in the shop?
Quote from: cambourne7 on July 20, 2007, 21:36:40
I have spoken to mum and shes fine, dads currently standed as there is someone treatening to jump off a roof so he cant get past. But hes heading home via tesco to do the weekends shopping. I have warned him to be aware that people dressed up as wizards are not a figment of his imagination!
Hope they are sorted soon cam.
Just heard from dh, hes 5 mins away! He has just cycled through town, I told him that they shut the M5, he said it looks like they have closed all of the city centre.
Quote from: cambourne7 on July 20, 2007, 21:44:35
what do you sell have you had any flooding in the shop?
My shop is actually a hair salon, no flooding thankfully!
Hope the wine does the trick Womble.. not heard from you lately.. or just not very observant...
;D
Quote from: saddad on July 20, 2007, 22:06:53
Hope the wine does the trick Womble.. not heard from you lately.. or just not very observant...
;D
I've been a bit of a silent observer, I log in most days to keep informed, I will post more I promise!! ;D
re the M5 situation,
my brother,his wife and two kids have been stuck on here all night :o
they are trying to get to Dorset ./ shades x
Glosterwomble, will you be having breakfast at Ceci Paola ?taking in the Seeds of Italy display!
I wish I had time to have breakfast at Ceci Paolo! But I did buy some seeds from there earlier in the year.
I hope that you get home ok today. Let us know how you get on..
We were driving back from Sussex. We left our son's (near Eastbourne) at about 9.30ish and within a couple of miles the heavens opened! We've never seen such rain! The roads through Ashdown Forest & the Weald were like rivers, because the drains couldn't cope and flood-water was gushing in from the fields. Luckily, our car is fairly high (NOT a 4x4!) so it coped, but things were very sticky quite a few times. And the noise! We were shouting at each other to make ourselves heard, while the poor dogs cowered in the back.
The M25 was solid from Gatwick to the M4 because of the flooding, but at least we were moving slowly and everyone was disciplined (resigned??). We got home just before 1.30 (in glorious sunshine, of course!) The journey normally takes 2 hours!
And looking at the photos today I realise we were among the lucky ones, although it didn't feel like it at the time!
4" here yesterday. Can't get into our local village.
Friend in our village had her cellar flooded. We lent her our butt pump - bought for drought periods!!
Well I did finally get back to my home in Gloucester yesterday afternoon but today we are told that we are going to be without running water or electricity very soon. Rather ironic that we have all this water lying around and we will have our water supply cut off!! :'( All to do with power plants and water pumping stations getting flooded. C'est la vie!
According to Metcheck we're due about an inch of rain today. It's throwing it down again; I just hope we're not in for flood no. 3.
We are without water, but with all this rain today at least the water butts will be filling up!
I think those that are at risk today are already flooded, and that it can't get worse than it aready is (fingers crossed) can it?
its blowing a gale here and raining so i cant get to the plot.
Localy we have so far all escaped the flooding as the rivers have not breached the flood defences.
Fingers crossed we will all see some dryer weather soon :-)
No rain yet in my part of Essex today, but it is forecast. Blowing a gale so I am tempted to put my sheets on the line and keep an eye on things. The garden is begining to look like a tropcial rain forrest, everything is so lush. I wish the sun would shine. :'(
Drizzle on and off most of today but now it is chucking it down.
Been basking in glorious sunshine all day here so far.Not a cloud in the sky.
and i tell more lies than Billy ;D
lorna sounds like you have the same weather here, came out of friends place having got my long hand shears sharpened and the rain was comming from all directions bizzare!!
Feeling a little guilty as i had met people up on the allotment who had been working in the high winds and had promised to head back with a pot of tea but i cant imagine that they stayed up there in this weather. Just hope there not waiting for me!!
This was Bourton last Friday.
http://www.pcplanets.com/videoyoutube-Bourton-under-Water.XewCgo9uBHI.shtml
Paid to fish in a place for trout in Bourton some years ago.
You had to buy anything you caught.
I reckon I caught the biggest trout ever,cost me £28.
My wife has never let me live it down.