I am sort of surprised there is no thread on this. Some of you at least must be suffering significant hardship as a result of this horrible weather.
(Perhaps all the flooded people have lost their internet connections!
)
For me it is a bit alarming since I am expecting to move house within the next month or so, to Hay-on-Wye, which has been flooded!
Not in Hay as such, a mile or so away up the valley, "My" future home is fine, it is at least 20M above the normal river level and on the edge of a 1Km, or so, wide flood plain. If flood water ever reached me there would also be Angels in the sky blowing Trumpets, or at the least, a beardy bloke at the top of the hill building a big boat with Animals queueing up to get onto it!
However, I do recognise that it would be very easy indeed for future flooding to render the local roads impassable, there was deep water on the roads last week when I went down there to drop some stuff off, even in my Transit Luton I was a bit apprehensive of going through it. I wouldn't have attempted it in my BMW and would have had to turn round and find another route or abandon the trip, and that was before the really torrential downpours that has occurred since and caused the massive flooding in Herefordshire.
Even a Landcruiser wont go through much more than 2 foot of water (70Cm IIRC) without modification and in any case, driving through flooded roads is really quite dangerous, you don't know how deep it is going to get, you cant see where the ditches are, and It doesn't take much current to wash a car away and then you drown when it rolls over in the deeper water
And with deeper water, its like Mastermind, once you have started you just have to keep going. The Bow wave is what keeps the engine bay dry and the wheels on firm ground. Once you get beyond a certain point, you cant just stop and reverse back! you just have to keep going and just hope that you will make it.
But I can see that, if this is going to be the way of things, perhaps one of the things I am going to have to do is be a bit prepper in the future and ensure that I always have a month or so food, fuel (And even drinking water perhaps. Flooding can contaminate water supplies due to sewers overflowing) in stock at all times,
And make sure that I have a working generator in case electricity supplies are interrupted.
Hey ho Joys of country living and all that!
(Perhaps all the flooded people have lost their internet connections!
)For me it is a bit alarming since I am expecting to move house within the next month or so, to Hay-on-Wye, which has been flooded!
Not in Hay as such, a mile or so away up the valley, "My" future home is fine, it is at least 20M above the normal river level and on the edge of a 1Km, or so, wide flood plain. If flood water ever reached me there would also be Angels in the sky blowing Trumpets, or at the least, a beardy bloke at the top of the hill building a big boat with Animals queueing up to get onto it!
However, I do recognise that it would be very easy indeed for future flooding to render the local roads impassable, there was deep water on the roads last week when I went down there to drop some stuff off, even in my Transit Luton I was a bit apprehensive of going through it. I wouldn't have attempted it in my BMW and would have had to turn round and find another route or abandon the trip, and that was before the really torrential downpours that has occurred since and caused the massive flooding in Herefordshire.
Even a Landcruiser wont go through much more than 2 foot of water (70Cm IIRC) without modification and in any case, driving through flooded roads is really quite dangerous, you don't know how deep it is going to get, you cant see where the ditches are, and It doesn't take much current to wash a car away and then you drown when it rolls over in the deeper water
And with deeper water, its like Mastermind, once you have started you just have to keep going. The Bow wave is what keeps the engine bay dry and the wheels on firm ground. Once you get beyond a certain point, you cant just stop and reverse back! you just have to keep going and just hope that you will make it.
But I can see that, if this is going to be the way of things, perhaps one of the things I am going to have to do is be a bit prepper in the future and ensure that I always have a month or so food, fuel (And even drinking water perhaps. Flooding can contaminate water supplies due to sewers overflowing) in stock at all times,
And make sure that I have a working generator in case electricity supplies are interrupted.
Hey ho Joys of country living and all that!
