The wet and windy, with occasional snow, 2019/2020 thread
Discussion
eharding said:
Digga said:
Not my pic, Volvo's own press release picture. Lovely shot.
Yes - stunning. Those beautiful, rolling low hills, burbling brooks, wildflowers and songbirds. All dug up to buggery and put in the back of a dumper truck. Lovely.
Hey Puggit - not sure why I bothered even putting them on - you reckon I can stick the OHs nice looking summer fatties (wheels and tyres) back on her car?
Rossendale, Lancs.
I've seen frost about twice this winter. In fact I went to Gibraltar for work a few weeks ago and it was colder than it's been here.
Rossendale, Lancs.
I've seen frost about twice this winter. In fact I went to Gibraltar for work a few weeks ago and it was colder than it's been here.
Dog Star said:
Hey Puggit - not sure why I bothered even putting them on - you reckon I can stick the OHs nice looking summer fatties (wheels and tyres) back on her car?
Rossendale, Lancs.
I've seen frost about twice this winter. In fact I went to Gibraltar for work a few weeks ago and it was colder than it's been here.
Clock change. That's the time. Rossendale, Lancs.
I've seen frost about twice this winter. In fact I went to Gibraltar for work a few weeks ago and it was colder than it's been here.
popeyewhite said:
eharding said:
Digga said:
Not my pic, Volvo's own press release picture. Lovely shot.
Yes - stunning. Those beautiful, rolling low hills, burbling brooks, wildflowers and songbirds. All dug up to buggery and put in the back of a dumper truck. Lovely.
RicksAlfas said:
Dog Star said:
Hey Puggit - not sure why I bothered even putting them on - you reckon I can stick the OHs nice looking summer fatties (wheels and tyres) back on her car?
Rossendale, Lancs.
I've seen frost about twice this winter. In fact I went to Gibraltar for work a few weeks ago and it was colder than it's been here.
Clock change. That's the time. Rossendale, Lancs.
I've seen frost about twice this winter. In fact I went to Gibraltar for work a few weeks ago and it was colder than it's been here.
warch said:
Digga said:
And yet the EA cut back routine dredging and maintenance...
Most rivers were never dredged. Dredging is very bad for the ecology anyway and doesn't always solve flooding, often moving an issue further downriver. It is much better and safer to hold water on the land, which is historically what flood plains and water meadows have done. The problem is the sheer amount of rain we've had this winter, the ground is saturated and can't accept any more. We visited the Thames at Dorchester today to do a bit of birding. Our usual access point was completely flooded, so we took another footpath to Day's Lock to try from the other end. That was also flooded. Had a chat to the lock keeper who said that the level was expected to rise by 5" overnight, and continue rising until Friday when more rain was expected. Not looking good.
FiF said:
Residents in Upton on Severn told to pack a bag and get ready to leave. Red warning potential danger to life.
Person in water yesterday in Tenbury, rescue abandoned late last night now a recovery op.
The inner problem solver in me just spent the last 20 minutes going upstream of the river severn looking for a suitable area to create a flood plain marshland. There are plenty that would work for minimal costs. Loads of areas where the river winds and nearly overlaps on itself so the resulting "loop" could be damned off and flooded if needed. Just a few square km of farmland.Person in water yesterday in Tenbury, rescue abandoned late last night now a recovery op.
I can’t post an image, because the (forever beta) upload tool is being typically woeful
Here are the levels at our current station.
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/s...
Comparing what is to come, to the levels on Sunday and the pictures of Bewdley, doesn’t look great.
The EA have put finally put barriers in at Beales corner and pumped out all the water though.
Shame they didn’t put the barriers up before the widely known about and anticipated storm, as they have multiple times previously
Here are the levels at our current station.
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/s...
Comparing what is to come, to the levels on Sunday and the pictures of Bewdley, doesn’t look great.
The EA have put finally put barriers in at Beales corner and pumped out all the water though.
Shame they didn’t put the barriers up before the widely known about and anticipated storm, as they have multiple times previously
CTO said:
I can’t post an image, because the (forever beta) upload tool is being typically woeful
Here are the levels at our current station.
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/s...
Comparing what is to come, to the levels on Sunday and the pictures of Bewdley, doesn’t look great.
The EA have put finally put barriers in at Beales corner and pumped out all the water though.
Shame they didn’t put the barriers up before the widely known about and anticipated storm, as they have multiple times previously
Our local station has been out of operation all winter. After the December floods the EA said they'd fix it. Still waiting, and unable to take any cross over the Kennet nearby. Here are the levels at our current station.
https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/s...
Comparing what is to come, to the levels on Sunday and the pictures of Bewdley, doesn’t look great.
The EA have put finally put barriers in at Beales corner and pumped out all the water though.
Shame they didn’t put the barriers up before the widely known about and anticipated storm, as they have multiple times previously
Big E 118 said:
We live between two tributaries to the Eden (Surrey/Kent border, becomes the Medway). One within spiting distance and the other about 200m away. Levels unseen before by our neighbour who has lived (and farmed) here for 70 years.
Our house sits on land slightly higher than the fields around so we became an island, garden all under water but luckily house remained dry. It's a horrible, stressful time watching that water rise, thoughts go out to anyone who wasn't as lucky as us.
Ask your neighbour what he remembers about the 1968 floods. I was very young, but the effects on Edenbridge, Tonbridge and Otford are still there if you know where to look (new bridges, houses missing, Leigh flood scheme etc). My grandparents had the tiny brook rise up and trash their ground floor in Westerham, but at least it was once (not every weekend).Our house sits on land slightly higher than the fields around so we became an island, garden all under water but luckily house remained dry. It's a horrible, stressful time watching that water rise, thoughts go out to anyone who wasn't as lucky as us.
However, the floods round by us have been spectacular this season. Time for a change now...hopefully.
slipstream 1985 said:
The inner problem solver in me just spent the last 20 minutes going upstream of the river severn looking for a suitable area to create a flood plain marshland. There are plenty that would work for minimal costs. Loads of areas where the river winds and nearly overlaps on itself so the resulting "loop" could be damned off and flooded if needed. Just a few square km of farmland.
Swansea did a bit of that, sacrificed a park and ride site in a light industrial area to become a wetlands and storm flow area. Raised bridges downstream aswell.https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/7m-f...
Amazing drone pics of Worcester today.
https://twitter.com/DaveThroupEA/status/1229452964...
Pic upload system for PH borked again. !!!!!!
https://twitter.com/DaveThroupEA/status/1229452964...
Pic upload system for PH borked again. !!!!!!
PositronicRay said:
john2443 said:
Fallingup said:
Ardrossan ferry. Scary stuff! Imagine the scene at the bar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-wes...
If you were in the queue to get on there would youhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-wes...
a) Stay in the queue and get on
b) Find somewhere to stay the night and get the ferry the next day
c) Drive round the long way (assuming you're notg oing to an island!)
C - it's the ferry to the isle of Arran.
your call
The Don of Croy said:
Big E 118 said:
We live between two tributaries to the Eden (Surrey/Kent border, becomes the Medway). One within spiting distance and the other about 200m away. Levels unseen before by our neighbour who has lived (and farmed) here for 70 years.
Our house sits on land slightly higher than the fields around so we became an island, garden all under water but luckily house remained dry. It's a horrible, stressful time watching that water rise, thoughts go out to anyone who wasn't as lucky as us.
Ask your neighbour what he remembers about the 1968 floods. I was very young, but the effects on Edenbridge, Tonbridge and Otford are still there if you know where to look (new bridges, houses missing, Leigh flood scheme etc). My grandparents had the tiny brook rise up and trash their ground floor in Westerham, but at least it was once (not every weekend).Our house sits on land slightly higher than the fields around so we became an island, garden all under water but luckily house remained dry. It's a horrible, stressful time watching that water rise, thoughts go out to anyone who wasn't as lucky as us.
However, the floods round by us have been spectacular this season. Time for a change now...hopefully.
Drive Blind said:
PositronicRay said:
john2443 said:
Fallingup said:
Ardrossan ferry. Scary stuff! Imagine the scene at the bar.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-wes...
If you were in the queue to get on there would youhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-wes...
a) Stay in the queue and get on
b) Find somewhere to stay the night and get the ferry the next day
c) Drive round the long way (assuming you're notg oing to an island!)
C - it's the ferry to the isle of Arran.
your call
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