Rain

[caig]

Thanks for the personal update on the weather, Alex. The pics on the news are bad enough.

I see that a policeman has been swept away when a bridge collapsed in Workington, Cumbria.

Stay safe Alex.

[thanmuwa]

The news reported this morning that parts of Cumbria had a foot of rain in less than two days! Apparently there are records being set for most rain in a day week, month and year .

[Wompet]

I just saw the footage from Cumbria and Ireland.
Here's hoping that no matter how wet it gets outside, your houses stay dry.

[Pleater]

Today - Saturday - we have had the lights on in the house all day as it has been so dark with heavy cloud and rain.

The scenes from the North have been sad, so many people affected - some only back in their houses six months after flooding two years ago.

The water rushing along the roads up there has torn up the tarmac and created great holes, broken the drains and the utilites, so there will need to be a lot of work done to ensure there is clean water, safe electrics and gas, plus all the drainage.

Although the policeman was swept away and died, it was reported that several cars and a bus were stopped from driving onto the bridge just before it collapsed, so it could have been much worse.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[GDub]

Here in "sunny" Northern California we get the yearly deluge or two. I doesn't rain for 6 months so the ground gets really parched and dry. Then the rains come--sometimes with a bang, sometimes with a whimper. For the most part we get light rains for a couple of days, but sometimes it bangs and we get LOTS of flooding and mudslides and fallen trees, etc. In between the sunny, warmish days return and the grass grows like green blades from Hell (I swear you can hear it growing). Sun sun sun, RAIN, sun sun rain... I call it "schizophrenic weather." Here's a CA heavy rain pic I've saved for posterity:

[timseh]

Wow. And people say that global climate change is a hoax... good luck!

[Seumas52]

Any athletes here want to try putting that stone?

[Pleater]

Now that is a photo to keep - though if the heavy rain happens regularly then it is not so much of a shock - if it is a once in 500 year event to get so much rain in one 24 hour period, and after a period of wet weather too then we see the bridges swept away and flooding in areas which have not been affected before.

It can be rather interesting when there is widespread but shallow flooding, where the water builds up rather than rushes into an area, to see that the worse affected houses are usually the modern ones, and there are older houses which have shallow water around them, then the solitary houses and old churches which are sitting on little islands in the water where in previous centuries people have known where the water lies and have either used a natural feature or built up the land in order to keep the water out.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Pleater]

Midday Sunday and the sun has appeared again - such a relief after the gloomy days we have had.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[KFCarter]

Best of luck drying out folks! My sister's only just now getting dried out from the floods that hit Atlanta weeks ago...

You're so right, Pleater, about the older buildings. We see that here, too... only part of this town that doesn't flood at some time or other is the core of the Historic District, the heart of the original settlement...they knew the lay of the land!