Zigs, are you there?

Good job they aren't giving out that advice for where you live.

 

I'd have a job there alright Going out after lunch to see what the damage is. The road is very quiet today.

 

Just looking at these, quite a few pics are near me.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/pictures/20409440

 

There were sleepless nights for many last night. Some of the roads were passable this afternoon, all the houses on the main street in Langport were sandbagged, but it looks like the river didn't burst.

Got a few pics.

 

AAaww Zigs, that's a hell of a lot of water there. Where on earth is it all going to go?
And there will be more tomorrow they reckon,
stay safe,
Jenny

 

Thats the trouble Jenny, the river is tidal from Langport downwards, and we're coming into spring tides next week, 2 metres higher than this week.

This is what it normally looks like.

 

Normal level.



Today.

Didn't take a pic, but there are new houses right next to the bridge built on the floodplain.

 

Silly me, you can see them The odd looking buildings with the solar panels.

 

That's why I was wondering above about 'what if' this had happened last week, when there was one of the highest spring tides of the year. Perhaps not another 1607, but there were 12.1 metre tides (Watchet) last week, which are only 8.6m today, or only 10.4 metres next week,

 

Some great pictures there Zigs, it gives us a good idea how bad things are down there. Fingers crossed that it improves soon.

 

Cheers Sheal

Scrunge, combine that with gale force winds blowing up the Bristol Channel so the water backs up, then Langport is in trouble.

 

Cornish RNLI are on standby in Bridgewater as they recon the high tide later in the week will push the floods back into the town.

This just about sums it up for today.

 

We've just got back in from a run out to Whitby. We are fortunate enough not to have flooding like down in Somerset. However I was surprised to see that lots of land now has puddles the size of small lakes on, and even the main roads had little rivers flowing across in places, and lots of mud that's been washed off the fields. There were a few diversions in place, and one main road closed completely because it was not passable.

The thing is, we haven't had that much rain here in the last few days, at least not enough to cause anything more than a small puddle. It can only mean that the ground was already saturated to the point where even light rainfall had nowhere to go.

I hope for the sake of those in the south west that we get a decent dry spell soon.