Downpour
 

My god its like forty days and forty nights. Hope everyones relatives are safe and sound.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6236348.stm

:unsure:

Re: Downpour
 

When I checked the email this morning I had 2 emails from my mum, the first one was "Flood" and the second was "Flood update" Not really what you want to see first thing Monday morning. Her house was just OK but the neighbours had a lot of damage. One had 3 or 4 feet of water running through their house. From what I heard the speed it happened and the speed it was flowing was very frightening. Everyone is OK which is good but the damage to their houses/cars and the loss of personal things is really sad. Heres some pictures my sister took before the water got really high, my mum looks pretty miserable I think you'll agree!

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/phot..._70969_791.jpg
http://photos-d.ak.facebook.com/phot..._70967_121.jpg
http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/phot..._70968_438.jpg

Re: Downpour
 

OMG! Thats grim, your poor Mum, way, way worse than my sister in Retford. She had water pouring through the walls in three rooms, eventually she ventured outside to pull all the gutters off the roof which just couldnt cope with the volumn of water!! When she got back in drenched to the skin she aksed her five year old to run upstairs and get a change of clothes. The five year old did her duty and promptly came down with a sparkling cocktail dress....bless her!
Hope your Mum and sis fine, Bfoody grim for all, lets hope the insurance kicks in!

Re: Downpour
 

:eek: How dreadful!

Re: Downpour
 

Thanks. The only damage to my mums stuff was that 2 of her decorative logs floated away. Actually, I think you can see them in picture. From what I understand, 1 house had a foot of water in it and now is basically covered in mud and crap. I'm really in awe of this guy. 6 weeks ago his wife died completely out of the blue. The same day he had a heart attack. Then he was staying with his son and ended up in hospital for gastroenteritis. Now this. He's 80 odd and realized what was happening at 5:30am. Got up and moved his car then started moving his stuff upstairs. I guess at some point my sister and her boyfriend climbed through his window to help him and he managed to get a lot of stuff put of the way. Another house wasn't so lucky. They had a lot of water flowing through their house. It washed their freezer out of the house and sounds like it has made a horrible mess of the downstairs, by the time they realised it was too late and they couldn't do anything. My mum said after the water went away one of their cars was so messed up that the lights were flashing and the wipers going and nothing could stop it. I guess the main thing is no one was hurt physically but emotionally they must be devastated. I asked about insurance and they are covered so that's good but there are some things that you can't replace.

I took a look at the BBC Gloucestershire website and they have a lot of reader pictures, it's unbelievable. I've never seen anything like it.

Flood Gallery

Re: Downpour
 

Wow, what a guy. Its kind of like a different generation isnt it?? But like you say everyone is safe and sound physically and thats the most important thing. But insurance cant cover everything like keepsakes and old photos. A lot of my friends live in Shropshire and they've had it pretty bad too, not so far away I guess?? My ex-101 year old neighbour from Shropshire had a flood but brushed it off as she normally does, what a gal!! Thanks for the gallery kind of puts it in focus.

Re: Downpour
 

We thought it was bad in Blighty. Anyone heard the news from Karachi. Uber bad!

Re: Downpour
 

Good to hear your lot are safe, but its unreal, I never thought i'd see Bath road under water:huh:

Re: Downpour
 

and were basking in the sun here... crazy weather

Re: Downpour
 

And Italy's having a major heatwave. Whats going on.....?

Re: Downpour
 

Major probs in Sheffield with (Brightside) under 6 ft in places.RAF helicopter rescuing people off buildings in City centre.Rotherham has a dam likely to burst evacuated 700 people from valley All over heavy rain 1 months worth in 4 hours.3 deaths so far.All UK effected.

Re: Downpour
 

It's really bad, been watching it on the bbc web site.

Re: Downpour
 

Yea it got a bit damp here yesterday.

Re: Downpour
 

Brightside is a dump at the best of times.

It's not the first time Sheffield has experienced floods...I dare say it won't be the last. Fortunately the city is very hilly...so only low lying areas will be affected.

http://www2.shu.ac.uk/sfca/

Re: Downpour
 

Seems to be getting worse. They're evacuating a load of people in Rotherhan as a dam is about to burst! Bet my Mum wishes she'd let my Dad buy that boat.

Re: Downpour
 

Well, the cost of the flood has come in. 3 houses are now vacant while the work gets done. All 3 have had to completely gut the downstairs, nothing can be kept. All furniture, carpets, appliances, everything is getting thrown into skips. Kitchens are being removed. 1 house has lost a lot of old photos and Wimbledon programs going back decades. A lot of other personal things are gone from several houses. A pebble driveway doesn't exist any more, but does exist in part in peoples gardens and all over the road. 2 cars are a right off, 3 cars are away being dried and fixed up. A couple of other houses had minor damage but are still chucking stuff out. Mud all over the place. Sounds like a complete mess still. I've also been told that they are predicting more flooding over the weekend. So much for the 24 million flood defense that was put in.

Re: Downpour
 

I know it sounds hideuous, the worst may yet be to come. Hope your Mum's okay.

Re: Downpour
 

Two more inches predicted for Saturday.

Re: Downpour
 

Just for a change it's been England that has had the worst of the rain and floods in the worst June weather ever recorded in the UK. My granparents live near Ledbury in Herefordshire and floods caused a lot of problems in the area after 50mm of rain fell in 70 minutes on 19 June and another 40mm on the 25th. Many of the manhole covers in the main streets were dislodged by the force of the flood water pouring down into the streets. There was a fantastic pic in the paper of a tornado near Telford in Shropshire, and there were more tonado/funnel clouds in some other places as well. This has been the weirdest June weather ever in the UK. Apparently tornadoes are becoming more common here. The weather in Scotland has not been anything like as bad as in England.