flood alerts: whose flooded out? we are in Rossendale

[Deleted member 1258]

Here in Coventry it was raining when I got up at quarter to six this morning and it is still raining now, hasn't stopped all day.

 

[marshmella]

Here in Coventry it was raining when I got up at quarter to six this morning and it is still raining now, hasn't stopped all day.

It's stopped here, after pouring down all day.

 

[ColinJ]

The coastal villages and towns on the Costa Blanca where I used to take my annual cycling holiday had enormous storm drains through them leading out to sea. They were either bone dry, or had just a trickle of water running down them. They seemed like overkill to me since it hardly ever rained there*** ...

Then one year, it started raining on the last Thursday afternoon before our Saturday flight home. When I say raining - it was torrential, monsoon-like.

It rained all through the night and Friday's ride was called off because it continued through Friday, and into Saturday.

I wondered how long the rain continued. I found out a year later when I met somebody who had stayed on at the hotel for another week after I had flown home. Apparently, the storm had continued until the Tuesday afternoon - 5 days in total!

*** A British couple were killed in that area last year when flash floods swept them away. The local council had paved the bottom of a ravine and sited a market there, despite warnings of the dangers - link.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

here you are colin, monitor your local river level from home......

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/120699.aspx?stationId=8097

 

[ColinJ]

here you are colin, monitor your local river level from home......

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/120699.aspx?stationId=8097

That's interesting!

I went out and had a look at the river earlier after the Royal visit was over. The water level was pretty high but I think the rain just eased off in time. There is always a bit of a delay for water to make its way downstream, but levels seemed to have peaked.

The new council buildings back onto the river. Several million pounds have been spent on them and they are only just finishing them off. I was told by someone that the flood waters last time got within an inch of the top of the wall keeping them back! I hope that they are going to add a foot or more to that wall or they could have big problems one day!

 

[Pennine-Paul]

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

Ughh! they still use dripping for cooking with,you can smell the vile stench 100m up the road

 

[HLaB]

The coastal villages and towns on the Costa Blanca where I used to take my annual cycling holiday had enormous storm drains through them leading out to sea. They were either bone dry, or had just a trickle of water running down them. They seemed like overkill to me since it hardly ever rained there*** ...

Then one year, it started raining on the last Thursday afternoon before our Saturday flight home. When I say raining - it was torrential, monsoon-like.

It rained all through the night and Friday's ride was called off because it continued through Friday, and into Saturday.

I wondered how long the rain continued. I found out a year later when I met somebody who had stayed on at the hotel for another week after I had flown home. Apparently, the storm had continued until the Tuesday afternoon - 5 days in total!

*** A British couple were killed in that area last year when flash floods swept them away. The local council had paved the bottom of a ravine and sited a market there, despite warnings of the dangers - link.

When I went to the Costa Blanca they got two days of the torrential rain!
Sardinia was similar but without the huge drains, they'd had no rain for 6 months but in the week before I arrived it was torrential, massive mud slides and somebody killed fortunately for all but two days of my holiday it was sunshine.
It was close to monsoon like here last night/this morning but thankfully its over some rivers were on the edge of tipping point.

 

[Arch]

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

The trouble is that even now, a lot of the rain that's fallen isn't going to help the reservoir and ground water levels, it's just racing into rivers and out to sea....

We reckon we had an inch of rain yesterday morning - very heavy bursts interspersed with persistent merely heavy rain. The Ouse was coming up again as I walked down to the station - but as Colin said, that's not unusual, even in mid summer.

 

[ColinJ]

Blimey - I am watching the TdF TT but a friend has just phoned and told me that perhaps a reservoir has burst its banks on the tops and the town centre has flooded even more badly than before! Jeez ...

News report.

 

[potsy]

Blimey - I am watching the TdF TT but a friend has just phoned and told me that perhaps a reservoir has burst its banks on the tops and the town centre has flooded even more badly than before! Jeez ...

News report.

Now, about this ride on Sunday...

 

[ColinJ]

Now, about this ride on Sunday...

It was flash flooding this time. The river hadn't burst its banks, but so much rain fell on the hills above HB in a few hours that the drains were overwhelmed and the water all ended up streaming down the roads into town.

The main A646 is under water through town but there are still prats driving into the flood water and then accelerating away. This not only causes big bow waves to spread out and swamp people and doorways, but also risks even more broken down and flooded vehicles blocking the road.

There is an amazing amount of mud and gravel on the roads in the town centre. It is as though someone has just emptied a gravel wagon there! I'll post some photos later.

The buses are not running. One of the station platforms is out of action so people are having to go on to Todmorden and come back to the other platform on other trains.

Some houses on the way to Mytholmroyd have had their foundations undermined and are in danger of collapse.

People trying to get to and from Halifax the alternative way on Heights Road are being turned back because that road is subsiding!

A helicopter is criss-crossing the skies above the town so I expect there will be more coverage on the news tonight.

As for my ride next weekend ... No way, if we don't get a break in this stupid wet weather! I'll definitely postpone it if the forecast isn't looking okay by Friday evening.

 

[Rohloff_Brompton_Rider]

friggin hell, no sign off rain here and i'm only 16 miles by rd and 11 miles as the crow flies.....friggin hell.

 

[ColinJ]

Our forecast for today was only for light showers but around midday the rain started hammering down. It was bouncing back about 18 inches off the roads!

 

[ColinJ]

A few photos of the aftermath ...

 

[tubbycyclist]

Got back into Hebden on the train a little while ago. The road near the station is awash with a new river coming off the hills. A JCB is trying to clear the road but little chance of success. Dazed commuters getting off the train looking a little non plussed by the piles of gravel and ponds.

Awful conditions with gridlock on either side of the lake that used to be the A646. Looks worse than a fortnight ago at the moment although should clear more quickly.