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The Floods

Post by Hoboh » Sun Dec 27, 2015 4:39 pm

These two pictures in Mytholmroyd sum up just how severe the water has been, the level of the river rise is startling! :shock:

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Re: The Floods

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:36 pm

If you look closely you'll see a couple of tree huggers clinging by their fingertips to that shed.
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Post by TANGODANCER » Sun Dec 27, 2015 7:55 pm

Mytholmroyd's a place I've been in the past. I had relations in Hebden Bridge. Walsden isn't that far away and had some really bad floods about four years back.

We're pretty lucky normally being at the top end of Bradford Road, but all the flags on the paths and patio in our back garden are rocking because there's so much water under them. The lawns are like giant sponges. Daughter was on standby to evacuate down in Ringley last night as all around them is a lake, but it looks like they just got away with it. Front and back doors are sand-bagged. Pretty nervous time and everybody is piling in to help out around Prestolee.
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Re: The Floods

Post by General Mannerheim » Sun Dec 27, 2015 10:26 pm

You see the collapsed pub in Summerseat? That was our local for years n years. Went down to see it today, incredible! :(

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Re: The Floods

Post by Bruce Rioja » Mon Dec 28, 2015 3:55 pm

TANGODANCER wrote: I had relations in Hebden Bridge.
Watched a programme a while ago and I'm sure it was about Hebden Bridge. A reservoir above it breached and all the water followed the path of the river and flooded the place out. I seem to recall that there were some fatalities also,

Just driven past the bottom of Forest Road (near Moss Bank Park) and it's a right old mess. Half the road's collapsded, trees are down the lot. I'm guessing that the row of cottages there have had a dousing too.
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Post by TANGODANCER » Mon Dec 28, 2015 4:52 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
TANGODANCER wrote: I had relations in Hebden Bridge.
Watched a programme a while ago and I'm sure it was about Hebden Bridge. A reservoir above it breached and all the water followed the path of the river and flooded the place out. I seem to recall that there were some fatalities also,
Yes, it was, it was in 2012. Walsden is getting flash floods again right now.
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Re: The Floods

Post by clapton is god » Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:07 pm

We're in the Lakes for three days from Wednesday staying at Bowness. Determined to go to support the local economy etc but goodness knows what we're going to find after Storm Fred does it's worse on Wednesday.

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Post by Montreal Wanderer » Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:45 pm

clapton is god wrote:We're in the Lakes for three days from Wednesday staying at Bowness. Determined to go to support the local economy etc but goodness knows what we're going to find after Storm Fred does it's worse on Wednesday.
Easy enough to find the high ground there, I suppose... :wink: Still, pretty unpleasant throughout the North West.
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Re: The Floods

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Mon Dec 28, 2015 6:52 pm

Montreal Wanderer wrote:
clapton is god wrote:We're in the Lakes for three days from Wednesday staying at Bowness. Determined to go to support the local economy etc but goodness knows what we're going to find after Storm Fred does it's worse on Wednesday.
Easy enough to find the high ground there, I suppose... :wink: Still, pretty unpleasant throughout the North West.
High don't mean dry, especially in the Lakes. I wild camped just below the summit of ScaFell Pike in 2006 and nearly got swept downhill by a sudden torrent which was released when an ice dam gave way.
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Re: The Floods

Post by thebish » Wed Dec 30, 2015 12:36 pm

the train at Dawlish this morning! :D

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torquay seafront is blowing a bit of a hooley too... it has now been closed off..


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Re: The Floods

Post by thebish » Thu Dec 31, 2015 1:07 pm

Frank gives Dawlish Station a good trolloping....

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Re: The Floods

Post by Lost Leopard Spot » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:08 pm

^ obviously photoshopped by southern softies...
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Re: The Floods

Post by Bruce Rioja » Thu Dec 31, 2015 3:55 pm

^ I'll send a copy of that to the former s-i-l on Shetland to she if she agrees with your "good trolloping" description. I'll mention, in your defence, that you're a Vicar. ;)
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Re: The Floods

Post by thebish » Thu Dec 31, 2015 4:33 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:^ I'll send a copy of that to the former s-i-l on Shetland to she if she agrees with your "good trolloping" description. I'll mention, in your defence, that you're a Vicar. ;)
my missus has a friend on shetland (I think we've had this conversation before!) - she keeps us updated on the good trolloping scale! :D

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