Its Spitting.... Everybody Inside... Wet Break

[Micrashed]

Its been drizzling a little bit...

 

 

Complimentary broken down Vaxhall

 

 

[vulgalour]

That bridge in the last pic looks familiar... where was this? It's been drizzling a bit here and it's a bit breezy outside at the moment, as the crazyinflatablewavingarmman style trees will bear testament to.

[dollywobbler]

This was the main road through Aberystwyth a few weeks back.

 

Snorkel fail. Well, actually, he'd apparently forgotten to put the fuel cap back on...

[DSdriver]

I like the depth gauge system in that last pic: Look at the two traffic cones in the flood under the bridge, the water is up to the bottom of the white band. Now park alongside the cone in the foreground and see how far up your car the water will be.

[willswitchengage]

Forget the rain check out the crazy clouds these gale force winds are creating! Still enough light in the North to see

 

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/

 

Yes I am a virgin

[Polystratus]

That bridge in the last pic looks familiar... where was this? It's been drizzling a bit here and it's a bit breezy outside at the moment, as the crazyinflatablewavingarmman style trees will bear testament to.

 

Suspect it's somewhere in the NorthWest but there's a similar sort of bridge up Chesterfield way, from those pics just looks like autumn....

[Micrashed]

That bridge in the last pic looks familiar... where was this? It's been drizzling a bit here and it's a bit breezy outside at the moment, as the crazyinflatablewavingarmman style trees will bear testament to.

 

Suspect it's somewhere in the NorthWest but there's a similar sort of bridge up Chesterfield way, from those pics just looks like autumn....

 

Its in a little place called Lostock Hole.

There is in fact a THIRD cone under the bridge in that picture and the water is nearly at the top.

[M'coli]

This was the underpass under the A1 on our estate last night. It had cleared enough today to walk through it in wellies, but the tide mark was 5 foot high.

 

103_5116.jpg by dtvacuums, on Flickr

 

Some young lad swam through this to the other side and back ...probably had nothing to do with the 2 teenage girls who'd turned up to have a look at it... I mentioned something about dog turds at the top of the slope being washed into the flood water, I hope I didn't spoil his chances!

In 12 years here, this is the worst I've seen it - the water was pouring off the graveyard behind the estate.

103_5108.jpg by dtvacuums, on Flickr

[vulgalour]

I think I'm confusing that bridge with one nearer to home. Pretty remarkable all this water about the place, going to have to fit an outboard motor to one of the wheelie bins just in case.

[Pete-M]

Mate of mine is from Hebden Bridge. That's a little bit wet.

 

A year or so ago one of the villages I visit in Czech was hit by some serious flooding. It burst over the dam and flash flooded down the valley. This is the dam a week later. 2 metres of water in an hour.

 

 

This is the view from the wet side of the dam. If that makes any sense.

 

 

The valley it went down...

 

 

 

This whole village square had 2m of water go through it. Which must be interesting.

 

Mad the way weather does things like this, but at the end of the day it's bugger all compared to those earthquakes in New Zealand not long ago. Just shows ya, Nature still kicks bottom when it feels like.

[ashmicro]

Damn right about the NZ quakes, Pete. My cousin's house was destroyed, but by the grace of God they were in Fiji at the time.

[Pete-M]

The Top Gear bit in New Orleans... bloody hell, that brought that home.

 

Still, if your stair carpet is currently floating that can't be a nice feeling either. A handy thing about living in Liverpool is that it very rarely floods.

[PhilA]

The Top Gear bit in New Orleans... bloody hell, that brought that home.

 

Still, if your stair carpet is currently floating that can't be a nice feeling either. A handy thing about living in Liverpool is that it very rarely floods.

 

Yeah, Katrina had just passed when I moved here. The city still smelled of floodwater, there were tide marks 12' up the sides of buildings. Took weeks to drain away.

There were fields of thousands of flooded cars, stacked out on the north shore. All of them pretty much beyond salvage as it was salty, muddy, crappy water.

 

Still, they should have gone to Venice, where the storm first made landfall. I recall looking at the side of the warehouse at Exxon, with the massive openings to get heavy equipment through- down there if you'd have parked an artic it would have been totally underwater. The tide marks were nearly twenty feet up. Storm surge is slower but more deadly than rain flood.

 

The city lost a lot of shite the day the levee broke.

 

-Phil

[willswitchengage]

I found this page interesting regarding the New Orleans levees:

 

http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin05.htm

 

In other new news our cellar has flooded again

[PhilA]

I found this page interesting regarding the New Orleans levees:

 

http://www.ssqq.com/archive/vinlin05.htm

 

In other new news our cellar has flooded again

 

Yep, that is the levee on the north west side of the city, as-was. Technically that much water shouldn't have been there, but the angle of the storm meant that the surge rose on the side of the city they weren't expecting it.

 

Since then the levees have been rebuilt. They have a steel core, with corrugated steel, then concrete built over that, and dirt and rocks to bulk it up. That will withstand another flood level.

 

Most of the levees here are about 25' tall, and huge, with corrugated steel (I'm talking this stuff is an inch thick and goes in a wobbly line, each section about two feet long) and built up with concrete and dirt. You can drive a vehicle up the side of it.

 

But that post is correct. There's a lot of politics behind it.

 

It took six DAYS for any relief aid to make it to the city once the storm had passed (which it had done when the levee failed).

 

A lot of the lower ninth ward, half a decade on, is still derelict.

 

So many people just snapped and abandoned everything, setting up elsewhere.

 

People here get upset, because the east coast is also a hurricane area, but their insurance isn't anything like here- when last year's storms glanced the coast (in the same way that document states NO received a glancing blow), they had trees down, flooding, landslides, houses that blew apart- they don't have to build to hurricane code there.

 

Fast response there though. Day after the storm passed, they were flooded with emergency response vehicles, all the blanket-wrapped families crying on camera that their house collapsed on one side.

 

We stand here, arms folded. Give us six days and we might turn up to help y'all, ok?

 

-Phil