how have you been affected by the flooding?

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delaneys

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Another comment on another thread got me thinking about how everyone has been affected?
I'm very lucky to have dry fields a dry yard and an okish drive to get to the yard. But it seems others aren't as lucky :(
 
My outdoor arena is a swamp, the fields are very muddy, but I'm able to ride out to a local viewing point where I can see most of the somerset levels from up high- -so much water...... Its very sad.
 
I had to close the fields just after Christmas. We are on heavy clay so the fields are awful. We are lucky in that we have a sand turnout but even that is like sand soup at the minute. Our long half mile driveway to the yard is full of pot holes and water and the ditch is overflowing onto the road at the bottom. But the yard and stables are all dry, so we are very lucky. I dread to think what people are doing to house their horses if they are flooded. It doesn't bear thinking about.
 
I am in Devon so not as bad as Somerset but still horrible. My own mare has been in for 3/4 days due to disgusting weather of wind and rain, but fields are all ok really and sandschool is flooded but ok for a 15/20 min leg stretch twice a day.

However I work at a hunt yard on the middle of Dartmoor and the stables there get flooded so horses are turned out 24/7 otherwise you just waste the bedding and to be honest its not much better than being out anyway.
 
most of out 15 aches is under water, with multiple lakes :( we are right next to a river and it is flowing through the fields :( have a few aches to turn out on, but even that is pretty water logged and they get bored of hunting for grass after a few hours. luckily i have a barn to bring them into and they are quite chilled. not as bad as somerset, but west berkshire is getting quite bad :(
 
We are lucky on a slope away from any flood plains but heavy clay and utterly saturated with standing water ankle deep in places ( on a slope - impressive ! ) but our lane is now 50 % washed away and runs like torrent as soon as it rains as the fields cannot hold any more.
 
I'd say been lucky until today. I have seen floods like I have never seen today. Nearly killed my car trying to get down the road today as could not turn round. The field behind my house the first time in 5 years is under water in parts. I'm not complaining as there are many other people who are worse off
 
Only two routes to the horse due to flooding though is fine with 4x4. Although depends what the river rather does, if it goes over again I have no way out to main roads.

Fields at horse ok, standing water but on solid sand so not trashed fields yet. But no shelter so horses on 1400 every day as had enough.

Problem here is trees coming down all the time and almost daily power cuts.
 
Indirectly most of us will be affected by the flooding - if only in increased fodder costs. So much has been damaged and will need sourcing eleswhere so prices are likely to rise
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Yesterdays rain has tipped us over the edge :( now 1/2 of our stables are under water, barn is a foot under and the dry field I moved horses onto a couple of days ago now looks like a lake. Luckily our house doesn't flood but the fire brigade have been busy pumping water out from those that do.
 
Been very fortunate here, was a lovely sunny day but its raining now. I'm sort of on an island, there is a very deep river gourge that runs around 3 sides of my house and as long as i keep the stable drains clear then i never flood but one year the stables did flood (drain was blocked) and i had two ruined stable beds and had to leave my tb out overnight in torrential rains. It was a mild annoyance, so i can only guess at how horrible it must be for the farmers and horse owners who have proper flooding :( I just hope that insurers pay out and don't claim "act of god"
 
Very, very lucky . . . yes, the fields are currently lakes, there is mud everywhere and I am in danger of doing a tendon myself going up to the fields, never mind my lovely boy . . . but our stables are dry, we have access to washing facilities, our hay/straw/feed is dry and (so far) all the horses are still happy and healthy.

Oh, and my home is dry too.

I feel so very sorry for all the people who are losing livestock, whose horses' stables are under water, whose homes are flooded and whose businesses are ruined.

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We are very lucky as live up a steep hill, so no real problems here...but made me cry watching the news tonight for all the poor people and animals suffering in the South.

Thoughts with you if you are affected.
 
We've had closed fields since the new year, fortunately we are on a hill so no real flooding at the yard but totally saturated clay land that is going to take an age to dry out. We're also right by the thames which has just burst it's banks again so there's lots of road closures and nightmare car journeys - took 1.5hrs to go the 3 miles to work a couple of weeks ago, wish I'd walked:eek:

... Then I drove into a monster of a pothole and buckled the wheels on my car & the AA had to rescue me, so several hundred quid poorer too :blue:

But it could be worse, horse & home are after all both still dry & I'm getting lots of riding in even if it does mean being up at 5.30 am :angel:
 
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