flood alerts: whose flooded out? we are in Rossendale

[ColinJ]

Glad to hear you are OK, **ColinJ ... I was wondering ...

** and all the other CC members in the very wet bits

Thanks - it's nice of you to think of me, however my house is far enough away from the river and high enough by a couple of metres that it would take a flood of catastrophic proportions to affect me directly. It must be a right pain for those affected though. It's not as bad as the centre of York where flooding occurs regularly, but there has been significant flooding at least 5 or 6 times in the 26 years that I've lived here.

 

[potsy]

Thanks - it's nice of you to think of me, however my house is far enough away from the river and high enough by a couple of metres that it would take a flood of catastrophic proportions to affect me directly..

Even if the off license was flooded?

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Thanks - it's nice of you to think of me, however my house is far enough away from the river and high enough by a couple of metres that it would take a flood of catastrophic proportions to affect me directly. It must be a right pain for those affected though. It's not as bad as the centre of York where flooding occurs regularly, but there has been significant flooding at least 5 or 6 times in the 26 years that I've lived here.

I was wondering if you were OK, I saw it on the news tonight, its nice to hear you're OK.

 

[ColinJ]

Even if the off license was flooded?

Where do you think I was headed when I took that photo last night!

The shop I buy my beer from is up a few steps from street level so the main shop floor was probably above the flood line, but all of their stock is in a cellar below the shop and the street outside definitely flooded, judging by the amount of mud out there today. I wouldn't be at all surprised if flood water and mud got down there.

A friend of mine in Mytholmroyd woke up to find his cellar flooded. He is way above the flood line but his neighbour's guttering is faulty and the water cascading down from the leak found its way down there! He is particularly peed off because he has been complaining to the neighbour and their landlord about it for a couple of years but nothing has been done about it.

 

[HLaB]

I was wondering if you were OK, I saw it on the news tonight, its nice to hear you're OK.

ditto

 

[al78]

A friend of mine in Mytholmroyd woke up to find his cellar flooded. He is way above the flood line but his neighbour's guttering is faulty and the water cascading down from the leak found its way down there! He is particularly peed off because he has been complaining to the neighbour and their landlord about it for a couple of years but nothing has been done about it.

Would the landlord not be liable in a situation like that?

I almost had a similar situation last December when my fence got partially blown down in high winds. I got a knock on the door from a neighbour telling me that my fence was at a precarious angle and was threatening to fall on his car. It didn't in the end as I managed to shore it up until I could get it repaired but I was concerned for a time that if the fence had subsequently come down after I had been alerted to the threat to the car, that I would be liable for any damage to the car.

 

[ColinJ]

Would the landlord not be liable in a situation like that?

I would imagine so.

I don't know if there was anything valuable in the cellar but my friend had the hassle of having to get the water out and clean the cellar. Now he has the hassle of having to try again to get a response from the landlord.

 

[Poacher]

I wonder whether all that beer in the cellar will have to be written off, or could be sold off at rock-bottom prices. Bottles should be OK after a thorough wash, but lack of labels could make for a very interesting lucky dip.

Apologies for the unwarranted levity, and sympathy for anyone suffering from the flooding. It doesn't seem long since the announcement of a drought. Unusually York seems to have got off lightly this time, but I noticed the Wharfe was over its banks near Tadcaster yesterday - nothing like as bad as Hebden Bridge, though.

 

[ColinJ]

I am going to that shop later so I will ask if their store room was affected, and will keep my eyes open for any soggy bargains. TBH - the flood came and went rather suddenly so most of us have not been badly affected....

 

[potsy]

CoffeJo and Speicher want to know if there were any cake shops affected?
think they might be on their way up

 

[ColinJ]

Some definitely were but given the ridiculous number of cafes in such a small town centre, that is hardly surprising. I tried cafe counting in my head the other day but gave up after 15 or so. I keep discovering unfamiliar ones and new ones keep opening.

 

[Globalti]

Did you catch any fish in the town Colin?

We have a brook running UNDER our house. Within two months of us moving in, in 2004, there were two torrential downpours that caused local flooding and the brook burst its banks and flowed around the house. The bloke who built it and sold it to us (a cyclist) said that in 17 years he had never seen that happen. Anyway he built the DPC and floor level at least a foot above the surrounding ground and there's a long way for the water to spread out just an inch or two deep so if water was ever deep enough to get in, it would be because the reservoir upstream had burst its dam or something really serious. On Friday night it reached pretty high and we could hear boulders tumbling along the bed of the culvert, an un-nerving sound that i don't like to hear. Being a short brook with a small catchment area it goes down as fast as it rises so last night Gti Junior and I were sploshing around under the house in our wellies. I showed him the driftwood lodged under the house from 2004 and that impressed him! The rain in one of those storms was heavy enough to lift entire ribbons of tarmac from street repairs and actually carry them many yards downhill.

 

[ColinJ]

Did you catch any fish in the town Colin?

More likely to have caught a big jobbie!

Some kids were swimming up and down Market Street after a flood a few years ago until someone pointed out the turds floating past them ...

 

[Globalti]

Ah! What we call a Mersey Trout over this side!

 

[Linford]

Having had our fair share of the flooding in 2007, most people in Gloucestershire will be sympathetic to this. My in laws were flooded out, and had to live in rented acommodation for 6 months whilst they sorted out the damage - we put them up for a bit.