North and East of England, Be Well Today (Rainfall, Flooding)

Thanks Alessandra. I am in the East and it is very wet. Felt a bit strange to wake up to find that it is NOT raining. Yet. The river Waveney is not very far from my house and I have been checking flood warnings, but hope I am safe. This map shows clearly where flooding is expected, looks scary: http://www.shoothill.com/flood/

http://www.shoothill.com/flood/

The heavy rain in some parts of the country is already affecting power lines. I'm waiting on word from a few people down south to see just how bad some of the flooding is...

The names are great! In Norfolk there are the rivers Tas,Tat, Wissey, Stiffkey, Gadder and my favourite, the River Babingley.

Shakesbear said:

The names are great! In Norfolk there are the rivers Tas,Tat, Wissey, Stiffkey, Gadder and my favourite, the River Babingley.

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How could you ignore the Tiffey?

For an area with flood warnings, this place is kind of, I don't know, dry.

This weather can fuck off. I've had enough. Bring on the sunshine at some point before October.

It's absolutely torrential here in Dorset. Cars stranded in floods.

Alessandra Kelley said:

I am some combination of horrified at the scope of things and delighted at the names of British Rivers ("River Wriggle including Chetnole and Yetminster!").

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One hilariously-named local river is the Piddle, which has lent its name to Piddlehinton, Piddletrenthide, Puddletown, Affpuddle and Tolpuddle.

Conditions in Honiton, Devon and in Ottery St Mary.
https://twitter.com/BrettMarks1/status/221505714697416704/photo/1

Parametric said:

Tolpuddle.

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That's a martyr fine place.

(I defend my right to make woeful history-based puns.)

Priene said:

How could you ignore the Tiffey?

For an area with flood warnings, this place is kind of, I don't know, dry.

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I would not ignore the Tiffey, but I did forget about it!
It was not dry on Thursday, it was bloody nasty and wet.

Priene said:

That's a martyr fine place.

(I defend my right to make woeful history-based puns.)

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Groan!

Seun you sound so fed up I am not sure whether I should point out that even if it is wet it is warm. The weather, Seun, the weather. Try to focus!

Parametric aren't there villages called Little Piddle and Middle Piddle?

Shakesbear said:

Seun you sound so fed up I am not sure whether I should point out that even if it is wet it is warm. The weather, Seun, the weather. Try to focus!

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Bah. I'll cheer up when I don't have to turn lights on at 1.30pm if I want to see anything in my house.

seun said:

Bah. I'll cheer up when I don't have to turn lights on at 1.30pm if I want to see anything in my house.

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You really should move out of that subterranean catacomb.


Edit: Actually, you shouldn't. All horror writers should live in subterranean catacombs.

Priene said:

You really should move out of that subterranean catacomb.


Edit: Actually, you shouldn't. All horror writers should live in subterranean catacombs.

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I can't move out. My house is built over the Gates of Hell. The resale value is bound to increase.

seun said:

My house is built over the Gates of Hell.

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I have a place like that...

Some random info coming through - some folks have been saying that their houses (in flood-prone areas) have been largely emptied in preparation for things getting worse, though the rainfall seems to have eased off. This doesn't mean that there will be trouble in store for them, merely that they have lost a sizable amount of their belongings before and don't intend to go through that again. There are peeps who haven't made any contact at all, so I'm getting rather anxious as to what is happening with them.

seun said:

I can't move out. My house is built over the Gates of Hell. The resale value is bound to increase.

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Given that Hell is a hot sort of place, and with all the rain we've had, you ought to be able to open a sauna.

It is raining here. Sigh...

And the worse thing? They may have to close the roof over Centre Court at Wimbledon this afternoon. And of course, a headline to make us wince -
"Flooding At Olympic Sailing Site"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-18759211

Shakesbear said:

And of course, a headline to make us wince -
"Flooding At Olympic Sailing Site"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-18759211

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That's ten miles down the road from me. Lots of flooding here in Dorset still.

I know there is a lot of flooding in Dorset, which is why I thought the headline particularly silly and insensitive. The sailing site is not the most important concern, the people who live in the area and whose lives have been changed by the floods are.

There are artists who have lost thousands of pounds worth of paintings in the various floods in recent years, writers who have lost irreplaceable manuscripts, and people have died - the Olympics are the least of my concerns.

BigWords said:

Some random info coming through - some folks have been saying that their houses (in flood-prone areas) have been largely emptied in preparation for things getting worse, though the rainfall seems to have eased off. This doesn't mean that there will be trouble in store for them, merely that they have lost a sizable amount of their belongings before and don't intend to go through that again.

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For many it's not necessarily the current rain as the river levels upstream, so maybe they think there's worse to come. If I lived somewhere like Gloucester, I'd be getting the sandbags ready. (As it happens, I live a couple of hundred metres from a pumping station, so I figure I'm safe from anything but a North Sea surge.)

Shakesbear said:

And the worse thing? They may have to close the roof over Centre Court at Wimbledon this afternoon.

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I'm trying to work out how England yesterday successfully completed a one-day international against Australia in Chester-le-Street. Has Durham County Cricket Association mastered a Reverse Rain dance?

Beautiful but alarming photo from Weymouth. (That's a road.)