flood alerts: whose flooded out? we are in Rossendale

[ColinJ]

I rode up the A6033 from Oxenhope towards Cock Hill after a severe thunderstom and found that underground water had managed to burst its way through the road surface and was spraying about 6 ft into the air - an impressive natural fountain!

(I suppose it could have been a burst water main but if so it was a big coincidence that it happened immediately after the storm. It definitely hadn't been like that an hour before when I rode down the hill.)

 

[Globalti]

Maybe the name Cock Hill gives you a clue?

 

[ColinJ]

Maybe the name Cock Hill gives you a clue?

Ah, as in stopcocks!

Speaking of which ... don't you think that Stopcocks is a great name for an organisation promoting female plumbers!

Back to the flooding ... David Cameron made a visit to Todmorden today to see what the floods had done there. He got some verbal from an angry Tod woman - ha ha!

 

[BrumJim]

Floods round here now, including just down the road from home. No pictures yet, but we are far enough from the water to have any problems ourselves.

 

[Globalti]

We have brook running in a culvert under our house; when the water gets really high we can hear boulders tumbling down the stream bed, which is un-nerving.

 

[Svendo]

We have brook running in a culvert under our house; when the water gets really high we can hear boulders tumbling down the stream bed, which is un-nerving.

We were chatting to Mr. Pollard (of Grandma Pollard's Chippy) on the day who was saying the same thing, he said that's when he turns the fryers off and put the flood boards in!

 

[ColinJ]

Prince Charles is coming to Hebden Bridge tomorrow to see the flood damage and offer support.

Guess what the forecast is ...? Heavy rain all day, torrential at times with a risk of flooding!

Forecast for the next 5 days - rain. After that, until at least the following weekend - probably more rain! Ho hum ...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Prince Charles is coming to Hebden Bridge tomorrow to see the flood damage and offer support.

Guess what the forecast is ...? Heavy rain all day, torrential at times with a risk of flooding!

Forecast for the next 5 days - rain. After that, until at least the following weekend - probably more rain! Ho hum ...

We're on holiday on the Isle Of Wight next week, the forecast is for a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers.

 

[ColinJ]

We're on holiday on the Isle Of Wight next week, the forecast is for a mixture of sunshine and heavy showers.

Let's hope the mix is skewed in favour of the sunshine, Dave!

Did you see any of the golfball-sized hailstones in the storms last week? My sister said a couple of cars were damaged in streets near to her!

We got some sunshine here this afternoon so I was thinking of getting the bike out when I got back from doing my market shopping. Before I could, thunderstorms blew in and that was that ...

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Let's hope the mix is skewed in favour of the sunshine, Dave!

Did you see any of the golfball-sized hailstones in the storms last week? My sister said a couple of cars were damaged in streets near to her!

We got some sunshine here this afternoon so I was thinking of getting the bike out when I got back from doing my market shopping. Before I could, thunderstorms blew in and that was that ...

I was at work last week when the storm hit, heard it on the warehouse roof but did not see any of it. Its been dry here today, I managed to get the garden tidied up tonight, the forecast for tomorrow is horrendous, I might be better off commuting by boat tomorrow.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

here we go again, already half hour of silly amounts of rain, it's just started lightning as well...

 

[totallyfixed]

Wettest drought I can remember.

 

[Night Train]

It's been raining continuously and heavily since about 7am here and there is a torrent of water flowing down the street outside. Fortunately no chance of flooding.

Just had thunder and lightning too.

 

[Ron-da-Valli]

We were chatting to Mr. Pollard (of Grandma Pollard's Chippy) on the day who was saying the same thing, he said that's when he turns the fryers off and put the flood boards in!

When we lived in Accrington we always popped into Grandma Pollard's chippy when we were going to Gordon Riggs.

 

[GetAGrip]

Wettest drought I can remember.

Oh yeah! All those authorities banning hose pipes. Seems like that was from a time long long ago