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Flash flooding
The Ant Hill Mob:
Well, I've not been in to work today, set off at 8ish, took us an hour and a half to do a few miles, so turned around in disgust and set off home again. All got released from work early yesterday, as one of the guys I work with, his missus works for the council, so we had advance warning of the roads being closed. I work in sheffield, at the bottom of the parkway, by the canal, thank goodness, and not the river. Took an hour and a half to get to work yesterday, and nearly 2 hours to go home again. The place where I work is literally 5 minutes walk from the Wicker, where one of the chaps died yesterday after being swept away. You don't notice how many water courses you pass when going to work, until they decide to burst their banks and use your road as a short cut. So having an enforced day off, watching all of the news helicopters coming and going, as I live slap bang between Sheffield and the dam at Ulley. Been over the bridge there loads of times, looks like its mostly underwater now (you can just about see the parapet). Hope they can shore it up and make safe, as the motorway closure is causing chaos - the motorway has several bridges over the river rother flood plain, if the dam is breached, these may well get swept away.
Hope all mud-clubbers in the area are OK, and making the most of the puddles, not having to clear up the mess left by the flood.
I'm just glad RRB and I live on top of a hill, seriously thinking we should've invested in a boat rather than a caravan, though!!!
PS, Hope they're keeping the dambusters squadron well away from Ulley, I keep hearing jets (fighters, though, not bombers!) going overhead, so even the RAF has gone to rubberneck.....
ian_s:
--- Quote from: "91Steven" ---Well, again, nothing which we have experienced! :(
Mind you it has been heavey so might pop up denby or bakewell for some laning.
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the road past elvaston castle has been closed today cos of flooding,
the nasty policeman wouldnt let me go play :(
Mash:
--- Quote from: "Boggert" ---Lincs had it too...
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Where are those pics from Patrick ?
A mate of mine rang me to tell me about Rufford ford..incredible !
Mind you I was stuck in Hull for 12 hours yesterday after hydrolocking the bloody works van...Wheres me landy when I want it !!
Hull was unbeleviable I've never seen anything like it !
Hope everybody is safe though...
laser_jock99:
--- Quote from: "ian_s" ---
the nasty policeman wouldnt let me go play :(
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Be a bit a cautious of 'playing' in the usual fords in these conditions. Some poor bloke got swept away at the ford near Pershore.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hereford/worcs/6243484.stm
Normaly it's only inches deep but venturing into 5 feet of water isn't wise.
Boggert:
We were on our way to a job yesterday and came to a local ford, saw a freebie go through no problem so we went for it! Not good when you are in a Astra! :shock: The water was about 2 feet, the car made it through Just with a bow wave over the window :shock:
To be honest I think it surfed the first 10 feet! :lol:
Well we got out just as it died, but Luckily we managed to get it going again after a while with out having to call our control :oops:
When we got back we did have a good laugh. Sometimes the blue lights and excitement just get the better of you!
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