I Hope All UK Members are Safe From Flooding

[Crescat Scientia]

http://www.shoothill.com/flood/

There is the threat of widespread flooding today as a full day of torrential rains is expected on top of the wettest June on record.

May you all be safe.

[Lady Ava]

Crazy amounts of rain here, almost my entire town had flooded yesterday, hope everyone else is safe.

[James Harrison]

Well luckily I live on a hill, so if I get flooding then it's probably going to be the least of my worries... but that said it has been mental the last few days with the rain.  Stay safe everyone. 

[Sir Nikolas Vendigroth]

Masses of rain here over the last few days. Does it still count as rainfall if it's moving sideways?

I'm pretty much safe from flooding - I'm basically at a high point. To the south, the river. To the north, another fluvial basin ultimately draining into the river.

I've actually worked it out - If my house floods to any serious depth, sea level will have to risen by 40 metres or so. And if that's the case, I've got more problems than damp carpets.

[Major Willoughby Chase]

Despite yellow flood warning, spent at least part of the day basking in glorious sunshine at the Chap Olympics and only a few very light showers to mar the day.  Considering the forecast, I think I got off damn lightly.

[Artimus Titanium]

Just a few showers here today,did`nt get the forcasted deluge but there`s always tomorrow lol.

[Mrs. Whatsit]

Good to hear you are all OK.

[Captain Braid]

Living so very close to the city of Rain (Manchester) we've seen a LOT of precipitation.
However like Sir Nicholas Vendigroth, if my house floods then rain will be the least of anyone's worries as I'm on the 120 metre conture line.

[Rockula]

The official UK statistics just released state that we've just had the wettest April, May and June since modern records began. The Met. Office is predicting that we'll also have the wettest July on record and the long term prediction is for up to another 8 weeks of it. Yes, that's right, all the way through the so-called Olympic period.

As to predictions yesterday that today would be dryer....

Although nowhere bad as in the North we have had a morning of extreme showers and flooding in parts of the previously unaffected Essex/Kent border areas. I saw kids surfing on planks down a local hill. There's kids in the nearby park in dingies....in the playground area!

I'm somewhat pleased that we live at higher elevation of our particular postcode but even we had 'rivers' nearly reaching the front door.

And I'm concerned for my friends who braved the 2nd day of the Chap Olympiad in Central London. They were lucky with the weather yesterday but I suspect that thier umbrellas may get more of a bashing today.

Oh, and officially we are STILL in a drought although there's no hosepipe ban in my area.

[Maxwell B. Cooper]

I reside in Northern Ireland and while I've seen some heavy rain, there hasn't been nearly enough to create any flooding. My thoughts do go out to those members who do live in more flood prone areas.

[Tito Alba]

And I'm concerned for my friends who braved the 2nd day of the Chap Olympiad in Central London. They were lucky with the weather yesterday but I suspect that thier umbrellas may get more of a bashing today.

Those of us at the second day of the Chap Olympiad got away quite lightly too.  Just a couple of heavy downpours but only enough to make us assert our stiff upper lip and stand defiantly in our straw boaters under an umbrella as only an Englishman can do.  One event got postponed for 10 minutes because it was too heavy and even then there were people dancing in the rain on the stage.

My liver seemed to get the worst bashing.  It got thoroughly soaked in gin for two whole days and needs to put on a line to dry out.

I understand they have lifted the hosepipe bans now.  As if anyone needs to be hosing anything down now!

[Captain Shipton Bellinger]

Just one more load for the washing machine and a couple more mats to scrub and dry, and we'll be about recovered from THE GREAT FLOOD—otherwise known as English Heritage Festival of History.

An unbelievable amount of rain over Friday night/Saturday morning turned Kelmarsh into a series of lakes and rivers, with the odd island here and there. The plastic camp suffered particularly badly, with deep water engulfing the whole area. I dread to think how many re-enactors are now trying to resurrect kit that has been wrecked. I tried to get down there to check on how our young group members had faired but was frustrated by the deep flowing water.

Quite a few traders were also flooded out, and I'm sure that loss of stock will be a bitter blow for many. We were among the more fortunate, with only a couple of inches of water in the tent and the vast majority of our stock being either on tables or in plastic tubs. My greatest blow was my e-reader, which (not expecting to be engulfed) I had foolishly placed on the floor by the head of my bed upon settling down for the night. I had thought that it was completely dead, but after a couple of days of gentle drying and recharging the battery, it now appears to be fully functional again.

Once everything had been done that could be to rescue the less fortunate, quite a few traders (including ourselves) opened for business as we quite literally had a captive market. What else was there to do?

On Saturday evening we managed to get everything except the tent into the car and escape the mud bath. Thank Cog for 4WD!!! We returned on Sunday morning to retrieve the tent and, with much detailed planning and a little help, managed to take it down and get it into the car without the canvas touching the giant mud pie ground.

Strangely enough there was very little bad feeling or despair. I think this was the closest I've seen to the fabled 'Blitz Spirit'; everyone was staying upbeat and helping others where they could. Some even took advantage of the unusual conditions to have a little fun: On Saturday morning I watched bemused as a young lady punted past me on her air bed, and in the afternoon I spent a while watching three young Vikings engaged in the ancient sport of Kite Shield Surfing.

[Professor Phineas Brownsm]

managed to avoid the floods in Croydon and Horsham!!

[Grymm]

 Tewkesbury didn't suffer as much as Kelmarsh.but it was a tad worrying at times. The river topped it's banks, into the plastic and Lanc campsites saturday lunchtime but thankfully they had enough warning to move all the tents before it did with the displaced Lancastrians moving (By tracked dumper truck ... genius aquisition by the organisers, it flattened ruts rather than making them) in with the Yorkists =o)
 Market field stayed unflooded (I won't say dry) but the bridge over BFloody Meadow had become a jetty by sat evening with the water level in the meadow steadily rising right through sunday 'til it was about 2ft (vertically) from the market field and our stall.
 Like 'Marsh the spirits stayed high with lots of sillyness and drinking.
The sparkling lake, complete with swans, that was the battlefield last year with the water lapping at the edge of Lower Lode Lane made for an impressive sight as we bugged out sunday evening =o)