Weather and Flooding.

[bigtj]

What terrible scenes with the recent flooding and horrible for those affected. It now seems the Thames is in imminenet danger and hugh areas could be affected.
I am sure some of our members are in areas being hit, and sincerely hope that nobody has been badly flooded out. Is the recent weather affecting anyones way of life and are there any horror stories or pictures of areas where members are involved.

The thought had crossed my mind too, Big TJ.
At the moment anyone in the Thames Valley is vulnerable, and the counties of Berks and Oxon (and indeed the city of Oxford)must feel threatened.

The Severn valley looks like a disaster of New Orleans proportion,
and of course there must be a lot of water around in the Fens region, wirth the Great Ouse bursting its banks.

Hope everyone on this forum has had a lucky escape so far.

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

tommo said:

At the moment anyone in the Thames Valley is vulnerable, and the counties of Berks and Oxon (and indeed the city of Oxford)must feel threatened.

If we get flooded then we will need an Ark, I am about 200 feet above river level :(

Hope all are ok though too.

My brother should be ok he lives on the 13th floor in a block of flats.

[milhouse]

OK at the moment, but not looking good if the Thames does burst.
My garden is 190ft long. 150ft with grass, then there is a 4ft step up to the patio which is 40ft.
At the moment, the grass area is 3ft under water :o
So have another foot to go.....

Fingers crossed for you, Milhouse.

I live on the edge of a floodplain which is supposed to be green belt land preventing Crawley and Horsham from joining up.

I have been on several protest marches across the fields - soggy at the best of times - against the plans to concrete them over with 7,000 houses. I hate to think of the state of them now.

Trouble is there are two rivers close by, the River Mole and the Mill Stream. Should one of those burst its banks the western extremity of Crawley could be in trouble.

[Q]

My thoughts are also with you Millhouse, keep praying for sunshine.

I am now on a ridge and the nearest river (about ¼mile away) is a good 80ft below us so I should be fairly safe.

As far as I'm concerned Clive flooding Hyde Drive would be a BIG improvement for Crawley ;D

[milhouse]

Thanks guys, really appreciate it.
Sunday during the day was really nice, but poured down all night. Today was also a good day, just hoping it doesn't pour down tonight.
The trouble is, they opened the lock at Letcombe, so that Banbury doesn't flood (parts of it is posh!) so the rest has to suffer. I am about 3 locks down from there, but they are opening them all to filter the water through!
3 of the 5 roads leading to Oxford city centre are closed, so means i cannot get to work - so looks like i am "working from home " tomorrow aswell ;) ;D

[bigtj]

Weather today in Lancing much better, but forecast looks as this is only a respite. Thoughts definitely with those like milhouse who are directly affected. Fingers crossed this weather holds and no further problems for him and anyone else in the heart of it.

q said:

As far as I'm concerned Clive flooding Hyde Drive would be a BIG improvement for Crawley ;D

Well, I'm with you on that one, Bernie, as long as it doesn't include margo's (and mine) favourite pub-restaurant the Mill House (which is where Handcross 'Z' team held our annual dinner a few weeks ago). ;)

[Pete S]

If I knew how to insert a picture I could show you some real flooding. My Sister-in-law lives in the lock house at Evesham !! Well she did till last weekend !!

Hope your waters have subsided by now Milhouse.
Problem areas with the Thames are moving towards London suburbs.
Wallingford under threat yesterday and today, Henley-on-Thames the critical area at the moment.

I can't recall such a bad summer in my lifetime: I blame the Brazilians for continually destroying swathes of rainforest shifting everything northwards and affecting the gulf stream.

[milhouse]

tommo said:

Hope your waters have subsided by now Milhouse.
Problem areas with the Thames are moving towards London suburbs.

Afraid not Tommo :(
The water rose in my back garden over night and is now just a couple of inches before it starts onto the patio and toward the house!
I have a picture, but cannot put it on here! I will email it to you and see if you can put it up?

[Colemanator]

We (Thrapston) were flooded a few years ago, we are in the Nene valley, the river Nene runs through the town, @ 30 foot above sea level this river is tidal 20 miles down stream, at present the river is at a normal level which is really surprising for the amount of downpours that we've had, I've seen all the grief that the BB communnity are at present are experiencing and we hope soon that this will subside, the water table Must be over the top, to think that 12 months ago friends of mine living in Surrey (Maybury) had a hosepipe ban is beyond belief, lets hope that summer comes soon. I'm off to spain on Saturday morning and it's blinking hot and dry there at present, the blame of this situation here is this gulf stream which is further south than it normally is at this time of the year, hope no BB friends gets flooded.

[bigtj]

Have a great holiday, at least the weather should be guaranteed. Back in the UK, lets hope milhouseswater has started to disperse, and as you say we start to get some sort of summer. The areas under threat seem to change daily and pictures on the web show how horrific it is for some.
The problem that always strikes me is that once water ahs infiltrated the home it must be impossible to get rid of the smell of dampness and your home never seems the same again.

milhouse said:

Afraid not Tommo :(
The water rose in my back garden over night and is now just a couple of inches before it starts onto the patio and toward the house!
I have a picture, but cannot put it on here! I will email it to you and see if you can put it up?

I'll have a go, hope this works:


Quite alarming to look at, as Im sure everyone will agree.....

[Colemanator]

Hammered it down at about 3pm in the town, i drove to Kettering along the A14 at a speed of about 40mph ::) when i came back at around 4-30 drove over 9 arches bridge looked at the river Nene and it still looks low :o

This was the scene at the bottom of my mum's road where she lives in Horsham after a flash flood last week: