Has storm Dennis arrived in your area?

[TheOstrich]

Plenty of flooded roads around here, including the A30 at West Stour.

A mile south of here, the country road people use as a rat-run out of this side of town is completely impassable at Eccliffe judging by photos on FB, and someone had a lucky escape on the Shaftesbury road when he hit standing water whilst gunning his Aston Martin and finished up upside-down in a hedge. He walked away from it; I doubt the car was so lucky ....

Otherwise, it's breezy but dry down here. The fence between us and our neighbours came adrift overnight and is at a drunken angle - it's their "responsibility", but I've offered them a spare 6' fence post we have to help shore it up if they want. We'll see what develops ...

[cromwell]

You would think that after the weather we have had, the possibility that there would be standing water might have occurred to the Aston Martin driver. That will be an expensive repair; isn't the bodywork of an Aston aliminium? It's happy days for some panel beater anyway!
Jo, I hope all your lot have managed to negotiate the bad weather safely.
WM, I've been thinking. As a country we don't seem to do the little jobs anymore. Big expensive engineering projects yes. Low level maintenance, where it costs money instead of making someone money, no.
For instance those shallow herringbone ditches. You couldn't safely use a digger to dig those trenches in the Runswick Bay photo; the slope is too steep. You'd have to have a gang of men with shovels doing it. And that's what we seem to be lacking. Men on the ground doing the awkward jobs.
Anyway, sunny and breezy here today. No rain thank the Lord!

[TheOstrich]

Late yesterday, someone posted a series of photos on the Town's FB page showing the rivers through the town surging right across the grass in the various landscaped "parks", and right up to the top of the arches of the local bridges, including the one a couple of hundred yards from us.

This morning - the rivers are totally back in their natural channels, the grassland is sodden but completely visible, and the water level has fallen a couple of feet. That's the problem here - the rivers rise extremely quickly and abate just as fast.

Up in Shaftesbury, the wind caused the top half the gable end of a house to collapse into the roadway, If I tell you it was a new-build and (allegedly) a Persimmon ….
Judging from the picture I've seen, a distinct lack of upper wall ties?

[Kaz]

Water was surging across the fields by the Severn here yesterday, Ossie. We drove past and saw it happening Castle Mead, near the Docks.

[Gal2]

It was so windy here last night (during the night) I found it impossible to sleep so I went into the front, east facing bedroom, it was a lot quieter there!!

Winds seem to have dropped considerably tonight, and we've had no more rain. Yet.

[JoM]

Crommers, Joe tried two different routes which were both flooded before putting his faith in the M6 not being too busy and going up one junction.

[Kaz]

My poor lad was up until silly O'Clock last night, because a power outage at the council offices where he works (he runs their IT dept) meant he had to go in and sort things out when the power came back on

Weather related

[JoM]

Oh no Kaz, I bet he's shattered today

[cromwell]

My poor lad was up until silly O'Clock last night, because a power outage at the council offices where he works (he runs their IT dept) meant he had to go in and sort things out when the power came back on

Weather related

That doesn't sound like much fun Kaz.

[Kaz]

He was Jo, and only just recovered from a really bad d&v

Thanks Crommers xx