Well,
That's been a "fun" 24 hours!
I have been away on buisness and got back home around 4pm yesterday.
Horrendous journey, but that was just the start.
The river at the bottom of the garden was already rising
The river is the farthest away bit of water.
The last time it rose like this was 1998 when we had the so-called "once in a hundred years" flash flood, so was already concerned.
The wife and the little'un were now back and I got the cars up on higher ground, contacted the local council who said no sand bags available, so we made our own out of plastic sacks filled with towels.
By this time the river had risen and my drive looked like this
Fortunately, at the front it did not rise much more than the foot and a bit .
The wife and little un went out in the 4X4 to see how it looked.
We have a lane which then you can walk under the road into the main part of the town, but that was going to be impossible. this is further downstream from our house.
The roof of the underpass is 7 feet above the ground
within minutes, the lane looked like this.
The bit of wall on the right is actually the top of the bridge!
All through the night we kept an eye on the river and fortunatly, the rise was slower than last time and we just got away with no flooding, as it had time to get downstream.
This is as bad as it got
We were lucky, some of our neighbours who are lower down than us were not so lucky, with a couple of foot of brown stuff into their houses.
It's now receding and below the banks again (just)
It really smells as well.
it feels really cold today as well !!
good job I got DH to buy a sofa bed from Ikea for here then!
