Cyclone coming

[klondike]

Other way round in the southern hemisphere

[Scrumpy]

It's a warning that a big tin of pink paint was spilled in the Atlantic. It is drifting our way so be careful your shoes aren't ruined if you walk on western beaches.

It also shows that some of those wind turbines are likely to break and our visitors in dinghies are unlikely to be arriving this weekend unless it is face down in the water.

NOW I understand.. 

Why can't people talk in Enid Blyton language more often.. !!
I think all politicians should talk this way too.. They would make more sense..

[Mups]

I do believe its is finally calming down out there,  although it is still raining.
It's certainly been a rough couple of days.

Now they are saying it is turning  cold again in another couple of days. 

[Diasi]

Well Bert hasn't visited North Lincolnshire as we've not had a breath of wind & minimal rain.

[Mups]

Well Bert hasn't visited North Lincolnshire as we've not had a breath of wind & minimal rain.

Really?   Nothing at all?

I'm really surprised you escaped when most of the country had it so bad. 
I heard some planes even had to be cancelled.

[dextrous63]

It's been pretty calm and mild here today.

[klondike]

Looks like it will be OK here today but more rain tomorrow and Wednesday. So what am I doing sitting on here?

[Scrumpy]

Very calm here today.. A bit of a draught yesterday.. nothing to write home about..
 

[Raven]

Calming down here too thank heavens. The ferries are back on today too.

[Alex]

We did have winds yesterday, but not as bad as expected. 

[klondike]

Couldn't do the walk I planned this morning as the woodland pathway was flooded. Tried an alternative and the road itself was flooded. As I'd planned to walk back along the river to Lidl to pick up a few bits I took an alternate road there that has a high roadbridge over the canal and river. If I'd reached the river the other end it would have done no good as the pathways along the river are flooded too.

On the plus side it seems the flood defences and working reasonably well as it hasn't flooded right back to the houses a few hundred yard from mine which it has in the past.

[Mups]

Couldn't do the walk I planned this morning as the woodland pathway was flooded. Tried an alternative and the road itself was flooded. As I'd planned to walk back along the river to Lidl to pick up a few bits I took an alternate road there that has a high roadbridge over the canal and river. If I'd reached the river the other end it would have done no good as the pathways along the river are flooded too.

On the plus side it seems the flood defences and working reasonably well as it hasn't flooded right back to the houses a few hundred yard from mine which it has in the past.

Billing Aquadrome always cops it, don't it.    I see today they have a 'Severe Flood Warning' - danger to life-type warning.   

I nearly went to live there once upon a time,  so glad I didn't now. 

[klondike]

A NextDoor post said there was some flooding near Victoria park. That's just a feeder stream into to Nene proper and I expect that the main river where I saw something problems was unable to carry it downstream to the big flood relief reservoir quickly enough. When St. James and Far Cotton were flooded maybe 20 years ago they didn't open the sluices to the flood relief because there was a long boat adrift and they were looking for a body. That decision must have cost millions.

[Alex]

If councils cleared drains as they used to, perhaps there wouldn't be so much flooding !

[klondike]

That's true with flash floods but here at least the water is getting from the land into the river - it's at least 6 feet higher than normal.

The problem with the Somerset Levels a few years back was blamed on failure to dredge by the environment agency which may well have been the case but I don't think it is here. That's down to something else and that something is building over the land that would have soaked up all that rain and let it feed through to the river slowly enough to have passed on downstream to the sea.

Now I wonder why we are building so many new houses 
Not enough to actually keep up with the huge expansion in our population though so they remain unaffordable to far too many young people these days.