Rob sorry to hear of this, I do hope your house is ok, I have personal experience of being flooded and would not wish it on my worst enemy. I have a friend living in Corse Lawn not far from you very close to the Corse Lawn House Hotel. Do you have any idea if that area has been affected? Steve
Corse Lawn was just off my detour back route out of Tewkesbury. I don't know for certain whether the village suffered. However, Friday's floods were all due to surface water. The countless houses I saw flooded were nowhere near rivers or streams. It was just flash flooding. So you couldn't predict where floods were going to be. Avoiding valleys didn't matter because water was just coming off fields and running down the roads. You could be on top of a hill and if there was a low point in the road you had flooding. I was driving UP HILLS and through 12 inches of water rushing down the road. Amazing. Here are some photos from Saturday. By this point the flash flooding had stopped but the rivers had burst. (The first photo is fields, not river!) (Love the wet floor sign that somebody put out!) R Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Bugger. Tewkesbury flooded out right across town. My office is the black and white place in the centre at the end of the road. Looks like water is about an inch from coming in. Can't even get in to save stuff. Water's 8 feet deep on all roads in to town. (Not my photo) Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Rob. Hope it subsides soon. Makes my flooded conservatory this weekend seem rather tame. Brother-in-law lives in Pangbourne, luckily in a reasonably high spot..... but got a call from neighbours that looters had started to burgle vacant houses.
Power cut this morning for an hour, okay we can accept that, but loss of water is unbelievable. The water treatment works at Tewkesbury are flooded and since most of the county gets water from Tewkesbury, its a bad deal. Water went off last night about 9pm, and they reckon, we'll be lucky to see it back on for at least 7 days!! That I cannot believe? Oh guess what - its just stopped raining
I was at Silverstone on Thursday, Hanger straight was under 3ft of water (one bit the water was level with the top of the concrete wall!) from mid morning and we were trapped for a bit in circuit centre as perimeter roads were too deep as was road to bridge/main entrance from inside, couple of people tried to drive through and hydraulic'd their engines. I was in the 355 too Sorry to hear about all you guys troubles, just a bit soggy here. p.s. amazed the 355's electrics have survived intact! (touch wood)
Just thought I'd better check again with my 88 year old mum who's a bit further South in Glos than you Jules, Nailsworth near Stroud. Luckily she's on a different water supply but they have been told they are going to lose electricity for some period this evening. It's even harder for the oldies
Woaahhh! Getting worse. It's so frustrating not knowing what is happening, and not being able to get there to see or do something. Here's another photo I just found. X marks the spot. Just on the very edge of what is now an island. I'm hoping we miss it by an inch. R Image Unavailable, Please Login
Given the blab on TV about new building sites being situated on flood plains etc its ironic that the driest building is probably the oldest (church)! Hope the water goes down before it goes up!
The Flood Blues (1927 - sung by Sippie Wallace - Louis Armstrong was sideman) Seriously - hope one and all affected are able to make it through this in good health. Water is more important than food - stay hydrated and safe. This page summarizes how to treat water in Emergency situations like this. http://www.metrokc.gov/health/disaster/watersafety.htm
Good news folks. Water's gone down now and my place missed it by an inch. Literally. Most other places got flooded but the water came to within an inch of our entrance and we got away with it. Cool! Still can't get into town though as the three roads ino Tewkesbury are still under 5 feet of water. But hopefully by Thursday we may be able to get in. Good thing we have home email connections! Rob
Dunno about that Rob. Anyway, there's not much we can do anyway if it does rise again! Fingers crossed... Rob
