Floods!

[flowergirl]

Heavy rain since the start of this morning here.
Watch video of floods and a funnel/tornado!!
click on main page to watch vid.

in sheffield at the interchange, meadowhall, there's around 5ft of water, the don's burst its banks, and chesterfield is 'knackered' acording to my bro in law.
he works at the RSPCA and they left early due to the brook next to them bursting it's banks, the animals are ok as it hasn't reached the centre yet.
the horns bridge island has a collapsed sewer.
i have some photos and film of the weather from when we went to mansfield. will post later. many roads shut.
heard on bbc radio sheffield that somewhere in the uk has run out of road closed signs!!

station road and hollin hill, clowne are flooded and impassable. also hazlemere road in creswell is closed due to flooding.

[gus.t.wind]

I just came back from a "holiday" in dawlish warren, devon yesterday rain and storms constantly added 2 pics to show you all how nice it was, friday in particular produced a freak storm over 20 forked lightning bursts in around 5 minutes lots of thunder and torrential rain. The picture of the bridge is where you had to walk through to and from the beach, council workers ferried people through it on the back of a pick up including me :lol: Left yesterday as i knew what was coming today and just wanted to get home.

[Novech]

LOLOLOL Reminds me of all my holidays back in the 70s as a nipper in Cornwall.

[mam500]

I was in Leeds city centre all day yesterday and I can honestly say I have never seen rain like it. Not so much because of its heaviness, but more because of its consistency. It rained non stop for fourteen hours!!! Lots of flooding and having just arrived back in York this morning the Ouse has burst her banks for the second time this month after 3 inches of rainfall yesterday!! which beat the 55mm that we had two weeks ago, and I thought that was as bad as it could get lol.

[Pic_man]

I can honestly say I am surprised by the lack of interest in the floods on this forum considering they were such a manifestation of severe weather. I am in S Wales and it didn't directly affect us here but since there have been 4 fatalities and hundreds of people evacuated from homes and businesses due to such a massive deluge we have only 3 entries on the topic. Maybe we should just call it the tornado and lightning chasing forum?....

[flowergirl]

i was surprised that no one else had started a thread, I'm waiting for more people to post, and also getting together all my pics in a vid to post.

[convection man]

I have a lot of interest in what has happened pic man, but i live at the top of a big hill and my area, and even the lower lying parts of were not affected, hence no photographs, I have never seen footage like it on tv and my sympathies go out to all those affected, maybe the lack of posts on the forum as a whole this week suggests people have other things to do or have been affected themselves. i can take a picture of a couple of puddles the next time it rains. but that is probably the best i can do :huh:

[TWISTED GILL]

Arrayi was surprised that no one else had started a thread, I'm waiting for more people to post, and also getting together all my pics in a vid to post.[/quote]

You beat me too it :lol:

I have to admit I expected this summer to be a record summer for other reasons:huh:with regard to soaring temps, the rain has been a shock for everyone, having watched the radar images for the system it was so slow moving and held so much water.

Up here in this bit of Scotland we have had the same old, same old with regard to the rain.

My sympathy does go out to all those who have lost family and their homes to what has taken the UK suprise.

[flowergirl]

lol quick as a flash me ;)
I have sent a few photos to my local paper via email, and they emailed back to say keep an eye out for them on the website. Nearly finished one film, one is going to be my pics and films, and the second clips from the news, etc.
Worksop Guardian

[TWISTED GILL]

Just seen that the military have been drafted in to help with the clean up of the floods, there seems to be more rivers bursting their banks.

For sreas still at risk see the link below

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subje...al_summary.html

[acchos]

i did say at the begining of the year that this year would be a bad one, maybe it hasnt been too bad up here so far, but you guy`s south of the border seem to be getting it all.
I`m expecting that us here in Scotland might get completly blewn away this winter.
Ross

[flowergirl]

yeah, the idle in retford is flooding, morrisons is next to it and they said on bbc radio sheffield that it has started flooding it.
Also the river trent in the same area has burst it's banks.
doncaster is in trouble too.

[blurnia]

I'm sorry to hear about that, that's terrible.

Can anyone tell me what caused the floods? I mean the meteorological situation. I've searching for the cause on the internet and I've read that it was an area of low pressure? Is that true? I guess many other things have influenced too, such as, the orography for example.

[Dale]

Arrayi did say at the begining of the year that this year would be a bad one, maybe it hasnt been too bad up here so far, but you guy`s south of the border seem to be getting it all.
I`m expecting that us here in Scotland might get completly blewn away this winter.
Ross[/quote]
Down here in London we have only got the first little drizzle of rain for days, even before that it was just drizzle.

[TWISTED GILL]

Hi Cwene

This might help you out

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/soci...e+floods/577852

Gill