Anyone else flooded?

[SEL]

I'm relieved we spent our August bank holiday digging a ditch and a soakaway - but wasn't expecting them to be used in anger this early in the year.

60mm of rain Sunday night into Monday morning and what looks like another 30mm from Monday morning until about 2am this morning.

I left the horses out because 1) I haven't sorted winter bedding and 2) the roads flash flooded everywhere so I wasn't exactly sure I was going to be able to get to them. All look exhausted this morning. They do have a shelter but the water was running right through it yesterday so they buried themselves in the hedge.

Got away lightly though. My old yard manager has just posted photos of her fields and house knee deep in water. All happened in under 30 minutes and looking at photos turning up on social media today there are loads of people pumping water out of their houses.

Soggy fields and mud are grim, but having it run through your house is horrendous.

Some drivers though.... I was roadside checking the drainage pipe yesterday in high viz. Road was a fast running river, single track and a tonne of potholes. Did people slow down? Nope.

 

[Abacus]

Not flooded but fields are now very very wet (Oxfordshire). A few flooded roads and nearby houses. I drove through a flood yesterday (in a discovery) and cars were just getting through. On the way back 2 hours later there were 6 conked out by the side of the road.

 

[Bellaboo18]

Not flooded but very wet fields, people have got far worse but at this point in the year and after last years winter I'm worried!

 

[HappyHollyDays]

I’m Oxfordshire and I’ve never seen rain like it yesterday. It was torrential for 12 hours and the road to the farm was a torrent. Years ago the farmer removed all the hedgerows and this morning the road was littered with rocks where the water had lifted them from the fields either side.

I brought the horses in for 24 hours, it was far to warm to put rain sheets on them and to long for them to be in the mud bath which the track turned into and where they would have had nowhere to lay down and rest. Neither seemed to mind but were happy to go back out this morning. Tomorrow night isn’t looking very good either and I just hope it’s not a sign of things to come. Last winter was bad enough without another one just like it.

 

[Alibear]

The ground is still concrete over here in East Anglia, so if you want to send the rain anywhere, please send it this way. We need more grass in all the paddocks as although it hasn't been hot summer it has been a dry one.

 

[eggs]

I am in north Oxfordshire and have never seen rain like it in the 23 years we have been here. Apart from puddles in the gateways the fields have held up really well and weren’t even squelchy this morning. Have to say I was very pleasantly surprised at how quickly everything is drying up.
I did bring the horses in the last two nights as it was too warm to rug and they are all getting on in years but they will be back out tonight.

 

[poiuytrewq]

It was mad wasn't it. I have a flooded out hay shed again. Luckily after last time I had raised stuff up a bit better with extra pallets and lifted bales bedding up on top of things. Its a huge mess in there today but the water needs to drop more before i can even think about starting to sweep it and clear it out. There will be barrows of mud and hay to get out. The pumps are going 24/7 again in the grainstores to empty the underground bits- Luckily the actual grain area doesn't flood, saying that the hay/machinery shed didn't until this year.
My car seats are still wet from my bum yesterday! That was a nice surprise this morning!

 

[SEL]

It was mad wasn't it. I have a flooded out hay shed again. Luckily after last time I had raised stuff up a bit better with extra pallets and lifted bales bedding up on top of things. Its a huge mess in there today but the water needs to drop more before i can even think about starting to sweep it and clear it out. There will be barrows of mud and hay to get out. The pumps are going 24/7 again in the grainstores to empty the underground bits- Luckily the actual grain area doesn't flood, saying that the hay/machinery shed didn't until this year.
My car seats are still wet from my bum yesterday! That was a nice surprise this morning!

I have huge puddles in my feed room under my raincoats - even double coated it came through yesterday morning and I really should have brought gloves home to dry. My car has the pong of wet horse.

My youngster has been building a bank of bedding against his door which I keep meaning to sweep back. Stopped his stable flooding yesterday but all the bedding then blocked the drains.

The ground is still concrete over here in East Anglia, so if you want to send the rain anywhere, please send it this way. We need more grass in all the paddocks as although it hasn't been hot summer it has been a dry one.

My friend up in Lincs didn't get a single drop - she has earthquake craters in her field its so dry.

 

[poiuytrewq]

I have huge puddles in my feed room under my raincoats - even double coated it came through yesterday morning and I really should have brought gloves home to dry. My car has the pong of wet horse.

My youngster has been building a bank of bedding against his door which I keep meaning to sweep back. Stopped his stable flooding yesterday but all the bedding then blocked the drains.


My friend up in Lincs didn't get a single drop - she has earthquake craters in her field its so dry.

For half a stupid second i was wondering why you had put your coats over puddles.....
I have stinky coats hanging all over the place and at one point yesterday, on my last drag at work I found a last dry soft shell type jacket, stripped off and just had that on. I wrung it out when i got back home

Edited to say, I only stripped the top half I did have trousers and boots on!

 

[I'm Dun]

It was crazy! I'm central Oxfordshire and everywhere is soaked. There's more heavy rain due tomorrow

 

[SEL]

It was crazy! I'm central Oxfordshire and everywhere is soaked. There's more heavy rain due tomorrow

I've just seem footage of my friend exercising her horse in a flooded arena - not puddle flooded, more large rectangular lake.

Your boat OK?

 

[sarcasm_queen]

North Hampshire, very boggy fields and flooded roads. Horses cheap rugs were surprisingly waterproof.

 

[teacups]

My friend up in Lincs didn't get a single drop - she has earthquake craters in her field its so dry.

Similar here in North Yorks. Finally got 1/3 inch rain yesterday which saves watering things, but the ground is still hard with deep cracks. Watching the news about Oxfordshire & others - incredible.

 

[paddy555]

Dartmoor where we would expect high rainfall but very little. No mud as yet and fields still dry enough to walk around in trainers.
So localised. 1000ft up on the moor yesterday afternoon and totally dry. Drove 25 mins down to the local market town and the final part of the journey was over roads running with water. Back home again and roads were dry.

 

[I'm Dun]

I've just seem footage of my friend exercising her horse in a flooded arena - not puddle flooded, more large rectangular lake.

Your boat OK?

yes surprisingly! I've been a couple of times to check the bilge pumps are working and that the ropes aren't too tight, but she's fine. The area she's in doesn't ever breach the banks so she just bobs away on the canal

 

[TheOldTrout]

Floods here, the main road to Bedford was under water impassable, and I had a local diversion on my way to the yard. (I'm north Bucks, yard is in Silverstone.) There's a manhole cover by the side of the A5 with water bubbling out from underneath it.
Wherabouts in Bucks are you, @SEL ?

 

[lynz88]

Wet but not flooded here in my area of Surrey. Today was the driest in 3 days but it was a fine mist this morning. The grass has shot up and suddenly poor horse is really feeling his feet- he went from happy to very slow and ouch within a matter of days and my grass needs desperate cutting but is too wet

 

[Landcruiser]

Tons of rain in Wiltshire last couple of days and lots of small local floods. The level of the stream through our land rose over the bridge between the two West paddocks, but has dropped back. That happens most winters but I don't think I've seen it so early in 10 yrs being here. Last year it got dangerously high and fast flowing - I was surprised to see the bridge re-emerge intact when the level dropped. Doesn't bode well.

 

[Barton Bounty]

Sorry… absolutely no rain in Ayrshire its been glorious

 

[SEL]

Floods here, the main road to Bedford was under water impassable, and I had a local diversion on my way to the yard. (I'm north Bucks, yard is in Silverstone.) There's a manhole cover by the side of the A5 with water bubbling out from underneath it.
Wherabouts in Bucks are you, @SEL ?

South of Aylesbury / Ox borders.

Bedford direction looked horrendous - that road is going to take a fair while to get the water pumped off it.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

My sister and her OH went to Bedford hospital on Sunday to visit his nephew. Took them over 3 hours to get home because of having to try to find roads that weren't flooded. She said she had never seen rain like it. It then rained solidly most of the day yesterday.

 

[Abacus]

Oh, the forecast was wrong, I didn’t put on rugs, and it’s pouring…

 

[SEL]

Oh, the forecast was wrong, I didn’t put on rugs, and it’s pouring…

Me too.

Blenheim sponsored ride cancelled which isn't a surprise. Sponsored swim more appropriate

 

[ROMANY 1959]

Here in Flintshire N wales it started raining solidly at 3 pm Saturday, never stopped till It was dark Monday. We live on a hill , but my lawn is higher than patio so it’s all ran onto patio. I thank the gods that I had new drains put in on the patio in the spring, they run to the main grid. But still I was paddling to get to the greenhouse.

 

[tatty_v]

We had so much rain, road was flooded and I think I emptied the rain gauge twice kept the boys in as I can’t have the grazing cut up this early in the autumn! Fortunately it does seem to have dried up mostly now but raining again this evening!

 

[spookypony]

I'm in Lower Austria, and our area was affected severely by the flooding last week. I was out of the country, and got lucky in that the water (just) stayed out of my ground floor flat, and my car was ok too. The yard had some flooding, especially in the gelding group that the Spooky Pony is in, as well as the indoor school, the tack room and locker area, but thankfully, the latter didn't get so much water, and are pretty much dried out now with little damage. The main yard track was severely affected, and certain outdoor areas are currently fenced off because of deep holes, but on the whole, we got away fairly lightly. While I was gone, the yard WhatsApp was a deluge of messages about rugs, more rugs, lots of rugs, and moving horses in and out of the paddock groups into available stables to dry off and have a rest, as needed. As far as I can tell, the Ballerina Mare spent pretty much the whole time of the storm at the hay feeder, wearing two massive rugs belonging to a much bigger horse, and making sure that she didn't shiver off even a millimeter of her excess rotundity. The Spooky Pony at one point got rather wet and shivery but led the other liveries a merry dance before they caught him. I'm told he was very tired, and he was lame at one point too, but had a good sleep in a shavings bed and felt much better the next day. Scary stuff, though.

The Lipizzaner Training Centre seems to have been unaffected, but the Lipizzaner Festival at the Federal Stud was cancelled, as was the traditional driving the mare herd down from the summer pastures (the colt herd had already been driven down before the storm). Instead, they spent a whole day trailering all 72 mares down from the summer pastures to their winter home!

 

[Abacus]

The river here has gone up 1.2m in 3 days, still going up, and more rain due to start about now. I could have used my boat to get through the floods to my brother's house yesterday if only I could reach it; the deck is a metre under water. And my neighbour's boat is currently sinking, they can't get to it either.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Your boat has sunk ?

 

[Abacus]

Your boat has sunk ?

No thank goodness - it's tied on loosely so that it won't get pulled down as the river goes up. But I can't get out to it to move the ropes so it's a bit nerve-wracking. My neighbour's boat was tied too tightly, the river came up fast and it's half sunk. Hoping it's not too badly damaged, the motor wasn't on board, so it might be salvageable.

 

[Slightlyconfused]

I am on the herts/beds/bucks boarders, about 20 mins from dunstable. Its been horrid. There is a brook i can see from my bedroom window that is on flood alert again for the second time this week, thankfully doesnt go up to my house as its high ground and the flood defences the town spent money on has worked to a degree etc.