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The number of flood warnings for North Yorkshire seems to be growing by the hour and last night's local news showed two donkeys having to be rescued in Harrogate, I think. I just wondered how everyone is coping? I know the fields at my old yard are under water. :(
 
moleskinsmum said:
The number of flood warnings for North Yorkshire seems to be growing by the hour and last night's local news showed two donkeys having to be rescued in Harrogate, I think. I just wondered how everyone is coping? I know the fields at my old yard are under water. :(
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We're coping pretty much ok here on the East side of Yorks (driffield, beverley, bridlington ect)

The closer to the A1 you go the worse it gets i think.

It does help that we're on relatively well draining land here but i'm guessing my old yard will be underwater, and if not very close to it by now..

Today its been somewhat dry. Drove to Uni in no rain!! Drove back an hour later and it was spitting. Then nothing. Then a massive downpour. Then nothing. Then spitting but right now i can even see blue sky inbetween grey clouds! Yay! :rolleyes:
 
Here is the fields backing our yard last night! Free water complex anybody?
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I live in Morpeth which was one of the worst affected places in the country, we were totally cut off yesterday until late in the evening once it had eventually receded enough. Here was the river just before it hit its peak again at high tide though you may well have seen it on the news anyway!
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all 3 schools were closed but by today everything is relatively back to normal thank god!
 
jessx27 said:
I live in Morpeth which was one of the worst affected places in the country, we were totally cut off yesterday until late in the evening once it had eventually receded enough. Here was the river just before it hit its peak again at high tide though you may well have seen it on the news anyway!
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all 3 schools were closed but by today everything is relatively back to normal thank god!
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I'm terrified of water (unknown reason!) so this would be my worst nightmare! I hope no lives have been lost and everything gets back to normal asap
 
I live in West Yorkshire and are not prone to flooding on that sort of scale, however, our fields (which were bone dry on Sunday) have a river running thorough one of them, and the ponds are draining from the other. Needless to say, we are off the grazing ATM....
 
Yes were flooded although thankfully just the back feilds and not to the extent of other places in my area its bloody awful though half the roads are shut etc etc x
 
We're Lancs/Yorks border, and the fields are soaked, horses back on winter hardcore turnout for a few days.

Our 3' stream at the bottom of one field is now 24' wide. They were just rebuilding a little bridge and road over it, and put a temp bridge over, which is now 3' under water. Our neighbours have to leave their cars and walk half a mile up the hill. A BMW driver went through today and killed his car!

Morpeth looked scarey. That block of flats on the edge that looks about to collapse. Those poor people.
 
Honey08, the flats about to collapse are in Newcastle, not Morpeth, but worrying for the owners all the same.
We are lucky in that we live up on the moors, it's very wet, the drive and barn has a constant stream going down/through it but not flooding as such, it was much worse in July, the sodden horses abandoned the barn and stood and watched the deluge coming through the barn, the drive was washed away.
 
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