Last night the photos I posted last night were swallowed up by the ether . . . Today I've hit the jackpot! This is a little river near me - normally a stream really - but turned into a rageing torrent yesterday. Love the light in this. This stream used to be the border of the very last of the lands belonging to Tally Abbey (which is a fair way from here). There was a monastic cell here, and I believe bits of it ended up incorporated in the lower part of our house - beautifully dressed stone. By the 1850s it had become merely a stable . . .
The top photo is downstream - it could be worse yet though last night's rain wasn't so heavy and it is now cold and starry out.
I have loading problems with the photos so will probably have to have a series of individual photos when the broadband connection is good enough. Do you think the folks in the pub were filling sandbags?
3 comments:
oh goodness thats alot of water gulp! I bet the pub owners are nervous...
We were talking last night,the flooding seems to be getting out of control,I dont remember so many areas being affected so often,sure there have always been low lying areas prone but now its very commonplace :oS
tarmaccing over the country seems to be the problem I think but hey I doubt the powers will be will ever admit to that one!
Crikey! What a lot of water!
I think in the past when flooding occurred in most cases the water had somewhere to go. Covering everything up with a solid block of material, no matter how many drains the experts decide will be adequate is asking for problems.
We regularly get flooding like this. Apparently the year before we moved here (1987ish) the river was 4 feet deep in my neighbour's bungalow at the bottom of the hill. It went right over the top of our bridge as some trees came down and caused a sort of "ramp" for the water to go over the top. That and the sheer amount of water coming downstream. Having seen it pretty bad over the last 20 years, these pictures are fairly average!
Not much of a concrete jungle round here Mara & GTM - the land gets completely saturated and then no more water can be absorbed and it runs off . . . Mind you, "they" are still passing plans for buildings to be built on the flood plain . . .
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