BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)

Subject: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:31 PM

I've just seen the news with films of the heavy flooding in various parts of the country, particularly Yorkshire and Lincolnshire but also Devon, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire and apparently other places are also suffering. Are all 'Catters from the badly hit areas ok?

We seem to have missed the worst so far in Leicestershire. More rain is forecast for overnight.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 01:37 PM

Lynne,
We are ok here in South Wales,ta for your concern.



Kind Regards.
Yasmin.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:02 PM

We are OK in Market Rasen Lincs, although some of the roads are a bit flooded. I guess we have to see what tonight brings.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: The Barden of England
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:09 PM

It rained quite a bit of the weekend here in Kent, but no flooding. Our fellow 'catters furher north and west do seem to have had a nasty time of it though.
John Barden

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:09 PM

It's fine where I am in Harrogate although some of the roads are a bit flooded. There are problems in Leeds city centre.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:10 PM

Wind's getting up rather a lot here, which will make things even more unpleasant

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:17 PM

Wakefield centre was under two foot of water. Our school closed tomorrow and journey home was slow. Daughter still hasn't made it as she left later than me and has been on the bus for over an hour and only gone 2 miles. Noone hurt though.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:21 PM

Also Lincolnshire Gainsborough) and O.K here at the moment

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Jean(eanjay)
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 02:25 PM

The wind's getting up here too and there is more rain forecast. My husband hasn't left work yet (outskirts of Leeds). He reckons it's OK because he has a 4-wheel drive. I'm not sure they're that good - I just give up!

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:00 PM

Sheffield looks bad as per this news flash

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1272242,00.html

I hope they all get rescued safe and sound.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Ruth Archer
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:06 PM

Flooded roads in the Vale of Belvoir, but got home okay. Getting to London tomorrow sounds like it's gonna be fun...

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:11 PM

got some friends doing a recording session at The Works Studio in Leeds today which is belowground level. I bet its like a fish tank in there.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: nutty
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:14 PM

It makes me feel lucky that I live at the seaside - at least we have somewhere for the water to go.

It's the concrete jungles that are bearing the brunt of the flooding as the drainage systems are not designed to cope with this amount of water.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Pistachio
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:20 PM

It's the worst I've ever seen in 19 years here in Beverley, East Yorks.
Roads like lakes, lots of flooded houses nearby but I'm able to report I'm still 'dry'. Thanks for concern. Helpful having a drainage ditch behind my back hedge!
My husband has just left for a job at East Midlands Airport tomorrow ...(It's 8pm UK time)and he's heading out a different route as the villages between us and the M62 are not yet clear.
Actually he's already been re-directed by the police into Hull and then out the M62. It'll be a long cautious drive. I believe the bad weather is still threatening around M18/M1 so he's going to call me later. Thank goodness for hands free mobile phones.
Looking down my road now I can see the centre line markings which were under 8" of water earlier today. It's receeding yippee.
For those who know Linda Kelly... she lives at No 25 and is dry... but no 29 is being 'pumped out now'! Some of us are so lucky. Best wishes to all.
Hazel.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:34 PM

Time for the sea shanty festival me thinks HissyFit :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 03:37 PM

Helpful sandbag hint-fill old cushion covers or pillowcass with old towels jumpers etc-worked for me garden flooded but house dry rest of the houses in our road under water but slowly drying out-extensive flooding in Hull and East Riding manned the emergency flood line absolutely manic -some people have really copped for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Rasener
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:33 PM

Friends of ours just had a nightmare journey home from Market Rasen to Grimsby/Cleethorpes - Lincolnshire.
The rain is supposed to stop by midnight and tomorrow and Wednesday should be nice. Lets hope they have that right.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:41 PM

see my thread here for a local view of Sheffield.

But it is finishing now.....

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:44 PM

Barely a puddle's worth here in east London. However, there are some dark grey clouds rattling in from the north west so I suspect we'll be getting it later.

Hope everyone is safe and well.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Zany Mouse
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 04:48 PM

Things are quite bad here on the Yorks/Notts border but so far we're OK. Had to ring British Waterways today though as the Chesterfield Canal wasn't coping and our local pound had gone over the towpath onto the road. The roads are flowing like streams.

Rhiannon

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Bainbo
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 05:20 PM

Next door has a young Russian girl staying, pat of a party which comes every year from the Chernobyl region. (Things are still pretty bad there - breathing uncontaminated air and eating uncontaminated food for a few weeks extends their life expectancy.)

What a day for them to land. A 400-mile journey to get to the airport in Russia, then the flight to Manchester - and then crossing the Pennines on the M62, their coach pushing waves of water ahead of it. Still, they've arrived here in North East England safe and sound, but absolutely shattered. We seem to have missed the worst of the rain, but the wind's bashing the trees about a bit.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: brid widder
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 05:54 PM

We have a basement bar in Hull & spent the afternoon watching the water rise til it was ankle deep throughout... we moved what we could but don't know if we will lose our equipment... are not really looking forward to going in tomorrow... we have no idea how long it will be before we can re-open... nevertheless we are safe ...others are less fortunate. Hull has been very badly hit.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: terrier
Date: 25 Jun 07 - 06:05 PM

After the fiasco of a few years ago when the river Alyn got deeper and deeper and eventually flooded Mold, North Wales,we seem in pretty good shape this year, although, going to work this morning driving down the hill towards the Alyn, the rain water was spurting vertically OUT of the grids.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 03:19 AM

Well it's a lovely morning here, if a bit breezy. Sunshine and no sign of rain. It's even gone from the road outside, though as we are on the side of a hill, that happens more or less as sson as it stops raining. Don't think it rained much in the night and our rain gauge shows only .7 of an inch in the last 24 hours. Forecast 've just seen shows sunshine until Friday then rain on Saturday. Great. Just in time for us to go to a wet and soggy Royal show on Sunday.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 03:24 AM

Ascot, Wimbledon and the school fete - of course it was going to rain this weekend!

East London is still fairly dry, no sign of an ark being erected yet and definately no squirty drains.

If you can spare a thought for wildlife, leave some cat food out for the hedgehogs and other little critters - their usual food is probably halfway to Ireland by now. Make sure you fill your bird feeders too, as the rain will have washed away most of the insects and seeds they rely on at this time of year.

My tits are damp, but still bouncing around.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Ella who is Sooze
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 04:03 AM

Minor damage so far. Garage is flooding a bit, and had to be like the boy with the finger in the dam in the house the other day... Water was pouring down the kitchen wall - blocked guttering meant water was being pushed up under the eaves and then down the walls inside. Lovely!

Caught it in time though. Have hopefully stopped the garage from flooding again by cutting a small V in to the concrete in the front of the garage to act as a guttering to rechannel the water. Which will mean that now the patio will get blocked, but better that than the garage.

We also have some rather worrying sinking bits behind a retaining wall. Gulp!

EWIS in South Wales

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:01 AM

Wantage area of Oxfordshire is dry, odd because the A417 is prone to flooding even with normal ammounts of rain! They must have got something right this time.
Good luck to you all.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:13 AM

Woke up to bright sunshine in Sheffield - seems to have calmed down, cold and windy but otherwise OK.

Little traffic moving around so people are being sensible and staying at home. Still some helicopters clattering overhead.

I am going out to take some pictures of the floods.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:28 AM

Planning a visit up to the session at the Six Bells in Barrow upon Humber tonight Tuesday...(so happens that fab female morrris team who dance in lacy black basques are supposed to be doing a bit outside.
Co-incidnece really....)

Anybody know what the roads are like round and about? I'll be driving up the A15 from Lincoln, then leaving it last exit before the Bridge in order to cut across to Barrow.

Cheers - Dáithí

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:24 AM

so happens that fab female morrris team who dance in lacy black basques are supposed to be doing a bit outside.
Co-incidnece really....)
Tell me more!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:04 AM

Now Skipy..I'm sure it's too far for you to travel isn't it?
However, the Raving Maes are a modern all female (and I mean ALL female)"morris" gang who are based in Hull, Yorkshire. They'll be travelling over the Bridge to barrow tonight to dance, and then there's usually a session at the pub every Tuesday anyway..the main reason i'm going, of course...
D

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:22 AM

Too far to travel, yes, too far to google - no!
Skipy
p.s. just watched them on you tube!

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:32 AM

Give us a link you swine......

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: The PA
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:59 AM

Our part of Worcestershire seems fairly trouble free, but I know others villages are having a hard time. The Severn Valley Railway has taken a battering - well at least some of the track anyway, its been washed away.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:14 AM

Mixed fortunes out here in the Backwoods of Lincolnshire - Louth seems to have had it bad, but I'm OK living, as I do, at the top of a hill.

Mind you, tempest, fire and flood's all we perverted Backwoodsmen deserve, isn't it Diane?

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 01:04 PM

I'm glad I don't live near Rotherham! Sounds as if three villages will be submerged if the damn they are trying to pump out gives way.

I thought the worst was over but, of course, rivers continue to rise after the rain stops. I heard on the way home this evening that there are still 150 flood warnings throughout UK. And lots more rain to come over the next few weeks.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Rasener
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 02:22 PM

It strikes me that the pumping out is causing as much trouble as if the dam broke see http://news.sky.com/skynews/video/videoplayer/0,,30000-1272417,00.html


A picture from Beverly on the front page of the Express today

http://www.express.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2007-06-26

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:13 PM

Just watching the news, Blitz mentality is alive & well in Sheffield, good luck to them all, wish I could help in someway.
Is one of those far to rare moments to be proud to be British!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 05:57 PM

just watching from the USA...as you all did when Katrina flooded the South here.

Sending dry thoughts and hoping everyones finds safety.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:29 PM

Definitely proud to be a sheffielder.......

But then I always was....

Down b't Wicker wear t'watter runs o'ert weir has taken on a new meaning.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: GUEST,Greycap
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:38 PM

Anyone out there from Selby who can give me a report? The ceilidh band I work in has a gig at the Selby Rowing Club on Saturday.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:42 PM

It's a rowing club, no problems they will get them to the building, may have to be acoustic!
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 06:46 PM

Do not take chances. Even two or three feet of rushing water can be fatal. Every storm here some fool tries to drive through flooded roadways and others have to endanger their lives to save them...if they are lucky.
The last two storms, a Grandma tried to wade through water to get the kids home and she and the babies drowned. It's not worth it. Wait out the flooding safe and dry. Return home when it is safe.
Mother SINS

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: skipy
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 07:22 PM

SINS, that a really sad story, hope it never repeats.
Skipy

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: bill\sables
Date: 26 Jun 07 - 08:44 PM

Selby is still dry unlike York. Kings Arms underwater again there is a story going around that they are going to change the name to the Divers Arms. Greycap, it is Selby Bowling Club but by Saturday it could be Selby Swiming Club, Bring your wellies

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: MBSLynne
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 04:03 AM

Bill D, it made me realize, reading your post, that perhaps we should be counting our blessings. What we have here is absolutley nothing compared with Katrina. Though it may not feel like that to the people whose homes have been flooded.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Folkiedave
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 04:59 AM

For real ale lovers - the Don Valley Beer Trail is now a Don Valley Beer Cruise.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 07:59 AM

I'm safe and well here, though others are not so lucky, ( 1 man drowned in Hull alrady).
My road was completely flooded, but luckily I live in a first floor apartment, so all my stuff stayed dry.

Much of Hull is still under water and and the City Hall is been used as an emergency evacuation centre, for the people whose homes have been flooded.

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Wyrd Sister
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 11:01 AM

All Kelham Island Brewery's beer reportd as spoiled.Obviously not that already delivered - make the most of it!

Subject: RE: BS: Everyone ok? (Floods UK)
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 27 Jun 07 - 11:14 AM

Can we help any of the ones who are suffering by raffles in folk clubs etc etc.I would be the first to contribute something to our members of Mudcat.




Scooby.