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UK flooding

MorkinMorkin
edited July 2012 in Chit chat
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18722054

Looks like we'll be escaping most of it down here.

Any WOSsers oop north getting their sandbags out?
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  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited July 2012
    Morkin wrote: »
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18722054

    Looks like we'll be escaping most of it down here.

    Any WOSsers oop north getting their sandbags out?

    not here, thankfully at the top of a decent incline with a stream and a canal nearby so it never floods thank fook
  • Battle BunnyBattle Bunny
    edited July 2012
    Here's a few pics from around my house from last week, part of a selection which I sent to the council when pointing out to them that their assertion that the culvert under the road was adequate to accommodate the stream which runs down through my garden wasn't entirely accurate. I've been here 13 years and it floods several times a year, although usually not in the summer. I'm usually alerted by the scraping sound as the wheelie bins float down the drive. The council send someone out to look at it every few years, and then they go away again; or someone will inspect the drains along the road, maybe give them a bit of a clean out; then the next thunder storm it floods again.
    flood-small-20120628_01.jpg

    flood-small-20120628_17.jpg

    flood-small-20120628_21.jpg
  • BiNMaNBiNMaN
    edited July 2012
    Battle Bunny wrote: »
    Here's a few pics from around my house from last week, part of a selection which I sent to the council when pointing out to them that their assertion that the culvert under the road was adequate to accommodate the stream which runs down through my garden wasn't entirely accurate. I've been here 13 years and it floods several times a year, although usually not in the summer. I'm usually alerted by the scraping sound as the wheelie bins float down the drive. The council send someone out to look at it every few years, and then they go away again; or someone will inspect the drains along the road, maybe give them a bit of a clean out; then the next thunder storm it floods again.
    flood-small-20120628_01.jpg

    flood-small-20120628_17.jpg

    flood-small-20120628_21.jpg

    I know the flooding is a bit crap, but I'm liking the greenery around where you live
  • Maroc's Astral ProjectionMaroc's Astral Projection
    edited July 2012
    I'm impressed by the wheelie-bin 'early warning system' :-D

    I think we can expect the Derwent round Stamford Bridge to be breaking its banks soonish. We've had a LOT of rain.
  • ArjunArjun
    edited July 2012
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    I know the flooding is a bit crap, but I'm liking the greenery around where you live

    Seconded. Very quaint!
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  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited July 2012
    My ma told me peoples cars were floating down the street, and I believe her cos' I've seen it happen before in lesser rain. She also said her bedroom ceiling fell in, and the insurance company have denied her claim...bastards!

    The video of the guy canoeing up the road in Newcastle that was kicking around on the news site , I can verify that that road has never flooded that much before. Most of the real flooding was on the outskirts from the looks of things though, but the inner city flooding seems to have done a number.

    The subways not too far from where I lived were apparently almost full of water, knew they would be, cos' they used to flood every year in winter when the snow melted and the rain started again.

    Seems messed up though, areas that don't usually flood flooding, makes you wonder if the areas that usually flood will catch a break this year, or be hit twice as bad as usual?
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  • WinstonWinston
    edited July 2012
    For a change, this soggy little island isn't the wettest place in the British Isles. But we've not had a good summer since 2006, and this year has been even wetter so far than 2007 was (which broke records, which had the dullest August since weather recording began).
  • Rebelstar without a causeRebelstar without a cause
    edited July 2012
    BiNMaN wrote: »
    I know the flooding is a bit crap, but I'm liking the greenery around where you live

    yep, very nice. I have no sympathy for you at all! :D
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited July 2012
    I might get a bit muddy tomorrow like, I'm going to motorbike Off Road School...
  • zx1zx1
    edited July 2012
    Theres mega rain been forecast for this part of Scotland tomorrow which usually wouldn't bother me but i'm going to a reunion tomorrow of people i used to work with 20 years ago and don't want to end up getting soaked!
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  • milemile
    edited July 2012
    zx1 wrote: »
    Theres mega rain been forecast for this part of Scotland tomorrow

    so no change there then :-P
  • FrankTFrankT
    edited July 2012
    This is what britain looked like 8500 years ago. The red area shows the old land. Britain wasn't an island back then.

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    Taken from a recent discovery of Britain's Atlantis. Lots of ancient cities on the floor of the North Sea.

    And when I was a nipper, we had a Geography teacher that told us we'd all be underwater by 2040.
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  • zx1zx1
    edited July 2012
    mile wrote: »
    so no change there then :-P

    yep! i guess so!:grin:
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  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited July 2012
    Meant to be really bad here tomorrow too....hopefully it'll wait until I get up to my parents house and not soak me on the way there....

    My niece got her house flooded during that last bad spell....water was knee deep!
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  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited July 2012
    Winston wrote: »
    (which broke records, which had the dullest August since weather recording began).

    The year after records began must have been one hell of a record breaking year! Just how my mind works lol
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  • Maroc's Astral ProjectionMaroc's Astral Projection
    edited July 2012
    Absolutely gorgeous up here in the East Riding today :)
  • deadpan666deadpan666
    edited July 2012
    Loads of floods up here...been a few roads near me closed, and Holyrood Park in Edinburgh was closed to traffic tonight as well...

    The sea looked very brown in Musselburgh, probably from all the muck collected when the river that runs in to it burst its banks....

    *edit..just found a link to the BBC that shows a video of the river...

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18752225
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