Yikes

[Workingman]

As I said I live on a hill, even so I am "knee deep in winter" from 21 December to 20 March every year.

Sorry Jen, but I do love typos. I have to... I make enough of them.

[Kaz]

Tewkesbury is surrounded by water now, just like it was in '07

[cruiser2]

My drive slopes down to the road. The road then slpoes gently down to the main road. Ths also slopes down so that the roofs of houses
half a mile away are below my ground level. So the water would have to be over 30 feet deep before it started affecting me.
Areas in the town near the River Douglas do get flooded. Butnot heard of anyreports this week.

I bet there is shortage of wellingtons, waders and small inflatable boats.

It happened in Cockermouth a few yeas ago. Took severalyears before some houses wre finaly ack to normal.
On news this morning it said insurance companies are refusing to pay for repairs to houses damaged by the recent storm in Staylibtidge, Greater
Manchester. Watch the same thing may happen with thse floods.

[meriad]

I'm similar to Cruiser and quite glad I live on ground that's a bit higher up. We got a lot of rain yesterday, but not as much as expected (at least I don't think so); and so far I don't think we've had major flooding anywhere. It does help that the next week or two look set to be dry so hopefully any areas that did get flooded will clear very soon.

Stay safe and dry everyone xx

[Kaz]

So the Severn is up over the rugby field near the Quays

[cromwell]

York is flooded again; it seems to happen every year.

[Kaz]

I remember flooding when I lived in York, Crommers - one time the Knavesmire (racecourse) was under water.

Well the Gloucester floods have been on the national news.

[Workingman]

What I cannot get my head round is that people STILL buy houses on floodplains, even with what has happened in the past 30 years or so! All the evidence says "Don't!".

Most settlements in the UK, going back hundreds of years, are built on or near water courses and yet they only got flooded once in a hundred years or so until the latter half of the 20th century. Weirs, goits and sluices were built to control the water, nowadays its "Oh look, some land, let's build on it, some mugs will buy". And they do.

[TheOstrich]

So the Severn is up over the rugby field near the Quays

Kaz, can I ask - is that the Gloucester City football club ground (Meadow Park) which was substantially flooded out a few years back, or is it Gordon League RFC's ground (back of the A430 / Sandalwood Drive), or somewhere else?

[miasmum]

This is within walking distance of me just near where I used to work


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