flood alerts: whose flooded out? we are in Rossendale

[ColinJ]

I wish the Jet Stream would bugger off back over the Shetlands, or wherever it should normally be at this time of year!

I feel especially sorry for the home and business owners who were still clearing up from the previous floods, only to get hit again.

 

[Pennine-Paul]

Now, about this ride on Sunday...

Do they hire pedalos in Hebden Bridge???

 

[Arch]

Jeez! I only passed through Hebden Bridge on the train at about 11.30 today. Just missed it! Poor little Hebden, not doing well recently!

I'm afraid this quote made me smile though.

."To say it looks like a tsunami is an understatement."

No, I think if you've seen a real tsunami, you'd agree it's either accurate, or an overstatement. Not much in the way of water is worse....

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Wow sorry to hear about this Colin and anyone else affected just seen it on the news.

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[ColinJ]

The weatherman on Look North said that we got 44 mm of rain in 3 hours - that's about what we should have got in the whole of July!

 

[phil_hg_uk]

Didn't rain here today but on Saturday it was heavier than I have seen in years, I couldn't believe how fast it came down.

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[Globalti]

It was dry and sunny yesterday evening on the south side of the Ribble valley but we crossed over to the north side around Stonyhurst College and Clitheroe and it was torrential, with similar amounts of gravel coming down country lanes to those seen in Colin's pictures. That could be the same storm that hit Hebden Bridge. We're going to have to watch out if we go out for our regular Thursday evening thrash-the-nuts-off ride around the lanes; road bikes don't go too well on gravel.

 

[HLaB]

It sounds like Edinburgh got it pretty bad but just 15miles over the Forth we were not too bad. It was torrential (biblical) with flash floods on Friday night/ Saturday but it dried up over night and Sunday was quite dry. Monday was forecast to be dry after a torrential night but it stayed wet all day :-( Visa versa, today was forecast to be wet but touch wood its stayed dry so far.

 

[fossyant]

Really odd weather. Must say with the level of rain, most of the local drains are 'blasted' clear. Get this on a dry summer/winter, they clog up, and you have some huge puddles to ride through.

 

[HLaB]

The heavens opened yet again, right on our chain gang. I could lie by saying its the coldest and wettest I've ever been but this summer (aye Summer ) has been sh1te.

 

[Arch]

It contented itself with raining gently on me as I rode into town from work for an errand, but then bucketed briefly just before I got home...

So, anyone reckon we're in for the wettest July on record, to match June? We certainly must have had an inch (c25 mm) here in York on Friday morning, and the average for July is apparently about 50, so we only need another inch to be above average.

Some way off the wettest though, according to this thread. 182.6mm!

http://www.ukweatherworld.co.uk/for...recordjuly-1828/page__pid__811560#entry811560

 

[ColinJ]

Well, we had another little flood while I was in hospital in August and the BBC were talking about the risks of more flooding by Christmas!

Now that I'm out and hobbling around the town centre, I have noticed that some of the shopkeepers are finally being more proactive. Rather than just dumping sandbags in front of their doors when floods threaten, they have now installed panels which slot in front of their doorways to seal the gaps. I'll be interested to see how effective they are next time the town centre floods.

I spoke to the staff at one shop and they said that their cellar stockroom had water spurting out of the walls in the earlier floods, so blocking the doors isn't going to help them!