Floods :(

DanH84 · 25 Jul 2007 at 18:37

hmm, don't want to trivialise what people are going through but i had a trip down to oxford planned for the weekend... is it going to be a write off?

mks2005 · 25 Jul 2007 at 18:38

DAVEM said:
Well you're only 40 mins from Bristol & Bath, perhaps a good time for a mini holiday / break!

Yeah, my Grandparents live in Bath so I'm probably going to pay them a visit.

Apparently the latest bowser vandalism involved some halfwits forcing open the top of a bowser and contaminating it... with urine.

marc2003 · 25 Jul 2007 at 18:58

made me laugh today going past my local shops to see people filling their cars up with bottled water they had bought. you can get crates of it free from a few places round town. but as i have no transport, i had to carry a crate whilst on my pushbike. what fun.

eXor · 25 Jul 2007 at 19:59

marc2003 said:
made me laugh today going past my local shops to see people filling their cars up with bottled water they had bought. you can get crates of it free from a few places round town. but as i have no transport, i had to carry a crate whilst on my pushbike. what fun.

Care to share the locations?

I printed off a map from google maps and circled a few bowser locations, something Severn Trent should have done to accompany the list on their site.

mks2005 said:
Apparently the latest bowser vandalism involved some halfwits forcing open the top of a bowser and contaminating it... with urine.

They should have some Army personnel guarding these bowsers, round the clock.

My water is gone now, but can't complain too much because the taps only dried up today. It will be an interesting couple of weeks.

Fraggr · 25 Jul 2007 at 20:29

NicktheNorse said:
I'm in headington just east of oxford town centre. Other than heavy rain over the weekend I haven't noticed anything flooding wise.

Sorry to see all that water CocoPops Hope you get it all sorted quickly.

Headington is up a gigantic hill.

I'm in Marston, just down that hill from you, but we haven't had floods here either, despite getting all your water.

A few fields next to the River Cherwell are flooded though, but none of the houses have been affected as the fields are nowhere near houses.

Edit: Dan, your trip should be fine.

marc2003 · 25 Jul 2007 at 21:29

eXor said:
Care to share the locations?

I printed off a map from google maps and circled a few bowser locations, something Severn Trent should have done to accompany the list on their site.

well the locations for bottled water are on the severn trent site too....

SAINSBURYS OAKLEY, CHELTENHAM GL52 5AQ
HOME BASE, GALLAGHER RETAIL PARK CHELTENHAM GL51 9RR
MORRISONS, UPPER HATHERLEY WAY CHELTENHAM GL51 3BW
CAR PARK, NORTH PLACE CHELTENHAM GL50 4DW

i went to morrissons around lunch time today and they had dozens of pallets of the stuff. only 1 crate per household though (24x500ml bottles), not that it bothered me, it was all i could carry.

scorza · 26 Jul 2007 at 11:40

norm said:
Every well prepared household should have a petrol generator. : )

Two people have died possibly as a result of being overcome by fumes from their generator: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6916774.stm :eek:

Hope it wasn't norm...

red11 · 26 Jul 2007 at 13:41

I think it's time to accept America's help:

Edward78 · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:22

RB506 said:
Somewhere near 160mm fell at Brize Norton which is a huge amount, more like 3months rain (summer anyway) and no we dont have a weather channel unfortunatly

http://uk.weather.com/

RB506 · 28 Jul 2007 at 17:24

Edward78 said:
http://uk.weather.com/

Thats a website, not a TV channel