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« Reply #1020 on: 10:37:13, 06-09-2008 » |
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This is terrible, Ants! Have you got enough fodder in? I seem to remember last time this happened to you the water receded fairly quickly, right? Hope that's the case this time too. This weather is well scary.
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« Reply #1021 on: 10:59:42, 06-09-2008 » |
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Marty, I got the shopping yesterday and have a well stocked store cupboard so I won't starve! The river does go down fairly rapidly but the main river it feeds into (about 1/4 mile away) is also on flood warning so the water has nowhere to drain. And of course all the rain is still making its way down the streams from the hills..... I've just looked out and in half an hour the levels have risen and are now at the junior school and another field has started to flood. I am ok as I am on the hill, but all the little cottages by the side of the river will be well under water.
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« Reply #1022 on: 11:01:52, 06-09-2008 » |
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This is terrible, Ants! Have you got enough fodder in?
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« Reply #1023 on: 11:07:20, 06-09-2008 » |
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Antheil, that all sounds dreadful about the flooding round your way. I hope it subsides soon, and you don't suffer too much from it, but certainly it seems like a messy business for your neighbours.
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« Reply #1024 on: 11:17:07, 06-09-2008 » |
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That's grim, Ants. Doesn't sound as though anyone will be coming or going anywhere if the main road is flooded as well  Where's Moses when you need him? Now is the time to put a big cauldron of comfort food on the stove and listen to it puttering away while the rains fall. Then scoff it! |
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« Reply #1025 on: 11:43:11, 06-09-2008 » |
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Ho Anty,
Sorry to hear of your raining and flooding, i do hope it is subsiding a little now.
It was raining loads here last night as well, i stood outside a pub waiting for friends for 3/4 hour and got soaked. This morning, I walked over one of the bridges in York and the pub alongside it is flooded (it's happened several times this "summer" - i use the word advisedly)
Strange to report now that the wind has dropped and the sun is actually shining. Don't know how long for though...
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« Reply #1026 on: 11:45:44, 06-09-2008 » |
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Thinking of you, Anty. Keep chirpy and, whatever you do, keep breathing!  |
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« Reply #1027 on: 11:57:01, 06-09-2008 » |
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That's grim, Ants.
Now is the time to put a big cauldron of comfort food on the stove and listen to it puttering away while the rains fall. Then scoff it!
I think I will make a lasagne Mort. Since typing my last the river has now come over a little way upstream and is proceeding at a rate of knots over the fields. What is amazing is the amount of debris, stones and rocks the flash flood has brought down which reaches half-way up the wheels of my neighbour's vehicle! Anyway, his son has just turned up and the interior seems undamaged and dry. |
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« Reply #1028 on: 12:08:43, 06-09-2008 » |
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I'm glad to hear you are at least surviving and not starving, Ants. The main casualty I've found from last night's rain is my wonderful red hollyhock, still in full bloom but now flattened. The lawns are like sponges. I'm eyeing the windfalls at the far end, but I think I'd sink in if I tried to cross the grass.
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« Reply #1029 on: 12:42:48, 06-09-2008 » |
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Ants - Hope it all subsides fairly quickly. At least it appears you have food and power.
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« Reply #1030 on: 14:20:00, 06-09-2008 » |
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I'm not in danger of getting flooded but there's torrential rain here at the moment, pools of water forming in the garden. It's probably what Wales had earlier.
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« Reply #1031 on: 14:31:39, 06-09-2008 » |
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I'm not in danger of getting flooded but there's torrential rain here at the moment, pools of water forming in the garden. It's probably what Wales had earlier.
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« Reply #1033 on: 19:23:34, 06-09-2008 » |
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We have just had the heaviest downpour I can remember seeing in this country. The sheer force of it, combined with the size of the raindrops! My street has an incline downward to the seafront end (where my house is), and there is a RIVER coming down it right now - serious flooding possibility, since all the drains are obviously full. Scary stuff, man.
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« Reply #1034 on: 19:37:27, 06-09-2008 » |
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Is Miss Martlepuss safely indoors?  (And has she forgiven you yet for deserting her for a month? Or did she go too?) |
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