Anyone else flooded?

[Jinx94]

Our stables were flooded, thankfully only a couple of inches of water. Tris was naked and shivering hard so made the decision to put a massive bed down and bring him in.

The flooding is mostly due to the roof leaking, the gutter needing clearing and the drain to the ditch behind the barn is blocked. We're now pushing YO to get it sorted as can't see the situation improving over winter, especially if it's anything like last year.

 

[Birker2020]

I am so sorry for all those affected by floods.

It is so sad.

 

[spookypony]

Our stables were flooded, thankfully only a couple of inches of water. Tris was naked and shivering hard so made the decision to put a massive bed down and bring him in.

The flooding is mostly due to the roof leaking, the gutter needing clearing and the drain to the ditch behind the barn is blocked. We're now pushing YO to get it sorted as can't see the situation improving over winter, especially if it's anything like last year.

I'm so grateful to my YO and to the other liveries. The YO is really on top of maintenance and improvement anyway (though she has a tendency to plant e.g. rose bushes and grape vines near where a horse can quickly munch them if a lead rope is a bit long, although they do look pretty as long as they are un-munched-upon). But it's less than two weeks after the flood, and already, most of the repairs and the road groundwork have been completed, improvements to the drains have been made to help prevent a recurrence, and the indoor school is almost useable again. I know yards where that would have taken months!

During the worst of it, when roads were blocked and it was too dangerous for most liveries to get to the yard, the live-in groom was calmly and indefatigably sorting everything. There's about 35 horses, so he had a lot to do! Masses of dehumidifiers were placed all around (I think a livery had sourced those somewhere?), and everyone whose own house was ok was out with shovels to help with the clean-up. I'd left my lockers locked while I was away, and was worried about water in them, so I arranged for my locker keys to be sent to the yard with three pizzas at one point. Turns out the Saddle-Mate in the bottom of the one had been enough to keep everything out of the water, though.

And the rose bushes and grape vines seem to have survived the flood, too.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

It's been very wet here since Sunday and we had thunder today.

Went to my friends yesterday we took her dogs to the pub abd then walked back to her house, omg we got absolutely soaked it was torrential and we only had hoodies on

 

[splashgirl45]

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.

So the rain today is your fault , it’s raining heavily and supposed to continue all night and tomorrow. I am not impressed!!!

 

[HappyHollyDays]

I moved my two from their summer track today and they are back on their relatively mud free winter field, just the gateway is a bit soggy but nowhere near as bad as last winter. I’ve kept them in tonight as it’s chucking it down and not forecast to stop until 7am but after that they are out 24/7 until Christmas unless it’s so wet they start floating.

 

[southerncomfort]

Hope everyone is OK this morning. Rained very heavily here all night.

 

[PinkvSantaboots]

Still raining here and I have lakes in my field.

 

[TheOldTrout]

The next village to me was badly flooded yesterday, the High Street was closed and the cricket pitch was completely under water. It often gets flooded or large puddles but yesterday it looked like the water had got into the changing rooms.