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This is half a mile from us, happily we’re on slightly higher ground

Ho no not good take care xx

Get your cossie out Kaz

Thankfully it won't happen to me as I live on a ridge between the rivers Aire and Wharfe, but I really do feel for those involved in floods.

It must be dreadful to be flooded out

Doesn't look good, Kaz, glad you're on higher ground.

Currently, there are many reports of bad flooding of both major and minor roads locally in the Dorset / Somerset region, and the train services through our local station are suspended. It hammered it down again this afternoon for a couple of hours and the fields are so overloaded, it's pouring straight off them. The Stour by us has a flood alert on it, but they did a lot of clearance work in the Autumn and AFAIK it hasn't breached its banks this side of town. It may well do so south of the town though ...... that of course is where they've started building 900 new houses on the flood plain.

Does it often come that close Kaz?

Not since I've lived here, Jo. The Severn is notorious for flooding, though, and we weren't here when it flooded badly in '07

TheOstrich wrote:.. that of course is where they've started building 900 new houses on the flood plain.

It really should be illegal

Some years ago there was awful flooding in Swindon just minutes from us. Luckily we weren't affected. One of my old work colleagues bought a house on a new estate that was built on a flood plain, two years ago she was badly flooded, it took a year for her to get back to her home. Goodness knows why they built there, my stepfather who lived in Swindon all his life always said they should never build there, it was knee deep in winter every year.