Cumbria flooding

[Dup]

harry5522, where is that? Looks familiar.

Top one is Hebden Bridge I think, second is Rochdale.

 

[Rroff]

It's chucking it down here, I have never seen Cumbria so wet.

On the last forecast I think something like 62% of the 5 day precipitation total was falling on Saturday (~100mm for Saturday).

While nothing like as bad as some of the previous stuff coming down on already waterlogged ground that is quite significant - that is like a whole average month of rain for us here in the South West :S

 

[Fuzz]

Have a few mates up there having a few problems...

 

[Fuzz]

Another mate of mine is still scrambling to get his workshop equipment out of his workshop which is filling up fast.. ..

Land Rover to the rescue..
This video from someone else's public profile..

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10208689070453803

Doesn't look massively deep in that video... until said mate actually posted vid from inside the vehicle..

 

[StriderX]

Hopefully all this rain stops soon and the government give some of their huge foreign aid budget to the flood defence projects.

Is this a loosely veiled joke? I can't tell.

 

[Diddums]

Crikey, good luck to all those affected, this is terrible


What a time to happen as well.

 

[Mr Joshua]

Another mate of mine is still scrambling to get his workshop equipment out of his workshop which is filling up fast.. ..

I'd love to see the video from inside!

 

[FloppyPoppy]

harry5522, where is that? Looks familiar.

What one ?

 

[johnno93]

Only just got electric back on, its been off since about 9:30 am. Had to go to the pub as nothing else I could do.

 

[Diddums]

Did you go to the Winchester?

 

[Kutter]

an exciting one from Bury i believe , its worth the wait

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=723346064469704

 

[Diddums]

Christ, that's bad. How do these people fare with insurance? Will insurance honour this as it's an act of god?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

The field near us is a flood area. It floods at least twice a year every year though not to this extent for a while. Stuff like that needs defences, If a area has flooded for the first time in 20 years then it's not as high of a priority imho.

Erm, that field sounds like the field IS part of the flood defences (i.e. a flood plain). You don't build flood defences to stop FIELDS flooding.

On that note, drove through St Michaels this afternoon - looked about 1ft away from topping the defences - just after they've repaired it from last week.

 

[Uther]

Isn't this actually at the stage now where this could be considered a national disaster?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Isn't this actually at the stage now where this could be considered a national disaster?

Not really - the flooding is still relatively isolated when considering the number of people directly affected.

 

[Spook187]

My Monitoring Station

 

[Uther]

Flooding in York now...

 

[Ayahuasca]

Still raining as well spook? How high does it need to go to burst the bank?

The worrying thing is people will be getting sozzled on boxing day and someone is inevitably going to fall in one I fear

 

[Spook187]

Still raining as well spook? How high does it need to go to burst the bank?

The worrying thing is people will be getting sozzled on boxing day and someone is inevitably going to fall in one I fear

Aye still raining, once it starts to go half into the red the city will start to flood again, well it did a few weeks ago with that chart

 

[Danthus]

David Cameron is going to chair a Cobra meeting tomorrow.

A huge relief to all those watching the flood waters rise right now.