Every cloud, eh Steve! All good here in South Manchester, took a walk along the banks of the river Mersey yesterday as it was a nice sunny day, I’ve never seen the river so high and fast flowing.
Had a drive (not ride) to Motolegends (south of Guildford) this morning - quite a lot of water and debris on the b roads the satnav took me down because the A3 was buggered.
Yep, it’s been floating around the Atlantic for the last 18 months or so, was just abandoned for some reason
The good folk of Ballycotton, County Cork, were the first at the scene of the washed up Tanzanian cargo vessel, Alta. A village spokesman said the vessel was already aground, and they knew nothing of the 1000 barrels of Tanzanian whiskey that had disappeared from the ships manifest.
as above, the Alta the picture has had it's credit removed since I cut and before I pasted.. It was Cathal Noonan https://cathalnoonan.com/
Great photo. I don't think anyone knows why the crew abandoned it about 18 months ago though. However, someone has made contact with the Receiver of Wrecks here, claiming ownership, so maybe some more info will follow.
Here’s another, it’s just round the corner. But seriously, this is on topic, they have a massive clear up operation ahead of them at Weybridge lock, I just stumbled on this by accident probably a typical scene all over the country.
Nadder, Ebble, Wylye, Bourne and Avon all flow through Salisbury - we live sandwiched between two of them with waterways created for washing wool in within a few meters of us ground water on the plain and cranborne chase is at a high Well managed chalk streams don’t normally flood it’s the ground water that will get us the last time our town flooded was 1915, we have sand bags ready this is the ground water testing hole at the cathedral which practically floats on gravel and water and it’s as high as they’ve known it
Blue skies and dry (so far) here in the SW of Ireland, first time for about 2 weeks. Still windy though, but it's heading east from here so hopefully, you'll have a dry couple of days allowing levels to fall. Watching/reading some of the news it looks horrendous, just where does one start to clean up all the mud that's left behind? It's horrible.
There has been no let up............ its fvcking horrible, high winds and lashing rain still. My pit in the garage has about a foot of water in it through ground water pressure, keeping a close eye on it .
There are a number of new housing developments near me that have sprung up close to the River Ouse, often in areas extremely close to the traditional flood plains. Surely you have to be a special kind of stupid to even contemplate building in places like that. I seem to remember a couple of years ago during previous floods that river management was very poor and often neglected leading to much slower moving rivers and the water has to go somewhere of course. I just hope that with the standard of politicians recently elected that when river management is suddenly back in vogue someone remembers to start at the mouth of the river and work back and not the other way round.
Agree, but it must be the Local Planning Control that are stupid enough to give building consent in the first place.
