Boxing day floods, show us your pictures.

[Wacky Racer]

Pretty grim atm in Lancashire, Ramsbottom, Whalley and Ribchester under a LOT of water, also around Hebden Bridge, Halifax in Yorkshire.

Torrential rain forecast all day.....

What is it like near you?

Pity those poor residents and businesses in Glenridding,Carlise and Appleby etc.....

[Hoofy]

It all sounds pretty awful, some places being hit 4 times this month. Aren't they really pretty places in summer, too?

[Biker's Nemesis]

I have a few friends that have been hit by the floods, the amount of damage and misery it is causing is heat breaking, everyone affected has my deepest sympathy.

[Thorpy]

Yeah Hebden has been hit pretty hard. So have some local villages in the Colne Valley. I feel really bad for all those caught up in it all!

[Spare tyre]

Serious question

What does this do to fish ducks insects etc that live in rivers and lakes, from an evolution point of view is it good or bad


Must be gutting to see your plac end up under water like that

[Mastodon2]

An evolution point of view? Evolution is a continuous process but selection pressures don't create noticeable change in the genotypes of a population in 5 minutes. There won't be any noticeable change to the local wildlife because they got washed down the highstreet.

Can you elaborate on your question a bit more?

[Impasse]

It's all the extra sewerage being washed around the place that the wildlife won't particularly enjoy.

[Dog Star]

Got quite a bit of flooding and towards washing away up the Rossendale Valley, and both Rochdale and Littleborough centres are flooded.

Quite a few localised issues too closing roads, so we've had a right old job getting home from Leeds.

[Krikkit]

I'm in whalley at my parents today, luckily we're quite far up the hill and not flooded, but the village is a right mess.





Photos by my Dad a few minutes ago, the army has been and evacuated half the centre!

[Wacky Racer]

Rochdale town centre

[Podie]

Bloody hell

Doesn't just ruin Christmas, but probably the next 18 months as you try and put things back together.

[thebraketester]

A few mates have had business that have been a bit flooded. Fortunately not, and family that are In Ramsbottom are high enough up to be not effected. Very very nasty in places thought. Horrible to see.

[benjj]

A few from Skipton today.







Rains have stopped now. Never seen anything like it.

[227bhp]

Just seen some pics on the news of a pub which was on a bridge, the river had just washed most of it away....

[skeggysteve]

I went Selby this afternoon via the A163 and the Derwent Bridge at Bubworth:

https://goo.gl/maps/ZaWH86hx8HJ2

The river is now basically all you can see in the Goggle image.

[cptsideways]

And the video on FB of the steel bridge being washed away in flames, yes really a gas explosion! Can't find the link sure will it will pop up.

[axgizmo]

Not my vids but...
Couple of links for you (if you are lucky enough to be on faceache)
Manchester: https://www.facebook.com/828701050494545/photos/a....

Abbeystead, near my parents
https://www.facebook.com/alan.wallbank.1/posts/101...

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1095288583817...

The bridge: with fire
https://www.facebook.com/ironart.fabrications/vide...

Edited by axgizmo on Saturday 26th December 22:56

Edited by axgizmo on Saturday 26th December 22:59

[thebraketester]

227bhp said:

Just seen some pics on the news of a pub which was on a bridge, the river had just washed most of it away....

Yeah that was in Summerseat. been over that bridge many times. The pub had been unoccupied for ages, I think it had some history of being not structurally sound.

[MitchT]

benjj said:

A few from Skipton today.

Looks like the one in Shipley ...


Won't be getting to the gym (Nuffield Shipley) tomorrow to start burning off the Christmas excess ...

[2.5pi]

thebraketester said:

Yeah that was in Summerseat. been over that bridge many times. The pub had been unoccupied for ages, I think it had some history of being not structurally sound.

Not structurally sound you say?!

I was down the irwell outside the Lowry hotel today and the river was seriously in torrent , trees , telegraph poles and a st load of st all whizzing past at 20 mph.

The worst damage was done by Mrs 2.5pi in the Harvey Nichols sale though