Winter 2023/24 - It's FREEZING!

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Uther said:
Sky news:
Angus is in the middle of a "very serious emergency", the council has said, with rescue crews taking 100 calls from areas asked to evacuate yesterday.

Parts of Brechin and increasingly other areas in the local authority "are now only accessible via boat", it said in a statement.

Scotland's First Minister Humza Yousaf said he "cannot stress how dangerous condition are in Brechin", adding that he expects the situation to worsen.

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The council asked bosses to consider not making residents attend work, with flooding levels half a metre above the highest ever recorded in the area.

"Angus is in the middle of a very serious emergency. Flooding is unprecedented," said the council.

"If you think you are in danger of flooding, please don't leave it too late."

Rivers have risen 4.4 metres above normal levels, according to the council.
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The council shouldn’t have to ask bosses, the Scottish government should just impose it on them.

Going to work in this lol
 
Uther said:
Your boss is an idiot. (you're not the boss are you? :p )
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One boss off and one boss working from home :cry:
Bearing in mind though my house is ten minutes from my work and it's not near the area of brechin that's flooded so it's safe to say there's not really an excuse not be in!
 
Uther said:
Brechin

Brechin
The council asked bosses to consider not making residents attend work, with flooding levels half a metre above the highest ever recorded in the area.
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Building in the flood plain again!
 
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Hagar said:
Building in the flood plain again!
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All of those houses are from the 60s / 70s. Issues have arisen from rising populations and building elsewhere but the surface water all gets fired into existing systems that head to the river or into the treatment works since it's a combined system
 
Derek W said:
All of those houses are from the 60s / 70s. Issues have arisen from rising populations and building elsewhere but the surface water all gets fired into existing systems that head to the river or into the treatment works since it's a combined system
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Looks more recent to me, but still
 
Uther said:
Three dead now apparently. :(
I think for all the moaning we are quite lucky where we live weather wise considering what a lot of other countries face.
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Very much this. Although I've known the area of brechin being flooded before but not anything like this. There's part of the wall next to the bridge / Brigend pub that's collapsed onto the road as well so that'll be extra repair work on top of everything else

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Things shopwise are worse than the ******* hoarders at the start of COVID. Shelves are pretty sparse cos the road from Dundee to stonehaven are closed cos of the flooding so no delivery vehicles are getting through. The Tesco garage was shut possibly down to power being off but possibly because they've run out of stuff. Coop was pretty sparse. Farmfoods milk and bread were all out. Not sure about lidls though. Could be another couple of days before anything gets through.
 
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My daughter was supposed to be coming back from York to Surey this evening. Sadly her train was cancelled. I took a look at a video taken by someone in nearby Whitby and holy moley the sea is rough.
 
Hades said:
My daughter was supposed to be coming back from York to Surey this evening. Sadly her train was cancelled. I took a look at a video taken by someone in nearby Whitby and holy moley the sea is rough.
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York has had little to no rain today. Mainly drizzle on and off.
 
413x said:
How anyone can like winter in the UK I have no idea.

I get people don't like 30c.. (even though I still think you're crazy! :D. )
But this? This is our Autumn/Winter now.

It doesn't really get cold much. Gone is the cold crisp dry mornings we used to get. This damp, cold, dingy weather is the norm.

November December and January are my least favourite months of the year.
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Swings and roundabouts under a cosy duvet in bed hearing the wind and rain outside, lovely. Nice roaring fire, lovely. Not that I have one mind. At least this weather keeps the kids indoors so they're not screaming their heads off outside my window and the neighbours are keeping their feral kids in! Very quiet mornings nowadays, lovely.
 
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