has anyone got insight about the flooding thats going on across the country?

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Andrew

im sure there will be rivers burst their banks in the news tomorrow!
you can check river levels on google, the tweed is ment to be up 12ft at places

9'' of rain fell in the lake district,and they reckon it might get to 11''

flooding everywhere. I had my house lights on all day.

It's still bouncing off the roof.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Oh b*gger. Fingers crossed for you Jim, and all the guys up north. Lets hope its no more trouble than a few power cuts eh!

just seen the news, it looks very grim up North, hope nobody as been flooded out.

Having suffered 2 floods in 2 months,it seems we have missed the worst of this one thankfully .
moray is well known for the floods and have had them often and it is devastating for anyone.
At the moment the weathe rhere is nothing like what the news forecast is saying it is warm and sunshine and looking at the water fish are rising everywhere and anglers are catching well.
I wish all those who have suffered from the worst of the water,my sincere best and hope you get sorted quickly.


taken 2 minutes ago

(sorry to those who have it bad )

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Kevin

anybody got flood photos they can post up?

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Andrew

not that it helps , but i am off out shortly to the tying club. and i fancy having a wee look to see how high the water is up the pier. though i only have my wee mag lite lol.

its been bouncing of the road all day here along with gale force winds. and the weather is to get cold over the next day / 2 with snow forecast as well.

time to get kitted out in the waterproofs n dig out the gloves , hat , boots. thats just for tonight lol. might be better digging out the flippers from the loft.

for anyone interested, there are various user submitted videos of flooding up on the sky news site Sky News

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Hi' Andrew. I have no more information on the current flooding problems than the next man; but I have strong views. Sadly, I feel that some of the cause has to over-enthusiastic drainage of the fells, and plain urbanisation, plus road development.
In 2005, when Carlisle was so badly flooded, as a result of 9in of rainfall in three days, I did some quick sums. My house alone contributed about 2,800 gallons of water in the three days. I have a garage with about 18 sqaure metres of roof space, and a workshop/enclosed passage-way with a roof of the same area. plus the house.
The M6 between Shap summit and the village of Houghton, on the Scottish side of Carlisle, is 30 miles long, and all of the rainfall on that road ends up in the River Eden. No soakaway, just run-off down culverts into the nearest tributaries. I had to guess the width of the tarmac surface, but a conservative estimate for the drainage off the M6 was about 70,000,000 gallons, over the three days. I didn't calculate the A66 run-off; but our biggest supermarket was responsible for an eye-opening amount. It is way past the time when 'planners' took into consideration the consequences of their actions and decisions when they cheerfully hand out permission to exacerbate flooding of the homes of people further down the valleys into which every new house, garage, lorry park, car park, supermarket, private paved driveway etc pours the rain fall on all the newly-created impermeable areas. Rant over, time for the evening meal. TerryC