Floods!

[Abacus]

In Oxford the flooding usually hits 48hours later as they open the flood gates and send the water down. Its awful here!

Totally agree, it's higher today and one road out of the village is shut, I think we have 2 more days until the peak (more rain forecast tonight). Thankfully after that it looks dry for a couple of weeks.

From a non-horse perspective I enjoy the floods. Where normally I can see a gentle river, at the moment it's raging and fierce, and the ducks are flying downstream, and I actually can't see the other side of the river - it has turned into a huge lake across the fields opposite.

 

[J_sarahd]

Just checking in with everyone after the recent storms we've had.
I'm in the East Midlands (loughborough) and I have never known the town to flood like it has. Roads are shut, people being evacuated and even the canal has flooded in parts.
There has been some animal fatalities unfortunately which has been awful to see. The river at one point was over 5 metres which is a record I think.
I hope everyone else is okay who has been affected.

That’s near me too - the stories of the ponies and cattle that people are out rescuing is just heartbreaking. My parents’ village almost turned into an island, with all but one way in and out flooded.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Another picture from the floods I posted previously. Car submerged in the middle, shows just how deep it gets. Depth gauge which the driver must have ignored can be seen on the left.

 

[Jambarissa]

Good grief, I assume the driver got out?

Our lower fields are flood planes and the river is just over its bank and we've a few new lakes, we've been missed by a fair amount of rain thankfully. It's a constant worry that they'll open the flood gates and the fields will flood very quickly. We've had to cut through fences a few times when the horses have gone up the banks and got cut off instead of towards the proper higher ground and gates.

I'm worried this might be the new normal for the country. People getting repeatedly flooded out of their homes must be devastating, how do you recover from that?

 

[Pearlsacarolsinger]

Good grief, I assume the driver got out?

Our lower fields are flood planes and the river is just over its bank and we've a few new lakes, we've been missed by a fair amount of rain thankfully. It's a constant worry that they'll open the flood gates and the fields will flood very quickly. We've had to cut through fences a few times when the horses have gone up the banks and got cut off instead of towards the proper higher ground and gates.

I'm worried this might be the new normal for the country. People getting repeatedly flooded out of their homes must be devastating, how do you recover from that?

And there are plans to build new houses on the flood plain near Tadcaster in East Yorks!
Absolute madness as that area floods regularly.

 

[marmalade76]

Flooded here but not quite as bad as 2007 yet!

 

[Sandstone1]

Hs2 has a lot to answer for in this area. Massive flooding in areas never flooded before. Large areas of woodland removed. As well as many house built on flood plains. Im afraid things will get worse.

 

[Errin Paddywack]

Good grief, I assume the driver got out?

Oh yes. In an earlier picture there is a lot more car exposed. Some one commented that it was a BMW.

 

[poiuytrewq]

We are fine at home. We are up on a hill, My fields are wet but in comparsion to some i really can't complain. The village i work in is flooded. The yard is at the top end of the village but lower down is pretty bad.
The Thames Is very much over locally and the little river where i like to walk the dogs has been over now for some time. I quite like it down there like that as no one else ever uses it and the water flows across the path away from the river so its not dangerous to take the dogs. They have a great time.

I feel so bad for people who are flooded out. I'd be devastated. A friend of mine is close

 

[MagicMelon]

We've had a horrifically wet winter up in NE Scotland. We've had flooding a lot all winter. My field has never had big puddles in it but it has recently. And we live on top of a hill so flooding isnt something that bothers us normally. This morning its all frozen solid (-5 dropping child to nursery) so the ice is horrendous.