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I remember when it were all fields round here

posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 10:39am on 03/01/2003
Now it's a lake. An impressively wide lake. Last night it was 40m from the back door, this morning it was 15m from the back door. There is a shallow incline up to the house, but another 6 inches and it'll get in the back door. (Another 3 feet and it'll lap around the [livejournal.com profile] live_gerbils.)

We're off to Manchester this weekend, so we spent a busy half hour taking things upstairs and moving books from the bottom shelves onto table tops. I think [livejournal.com profile] major_clanger will be phoning the neighbours fairly frequently while we're away to check on the Lake's Progress!

([livejournal.com profile] purplecthulhu, [livejournal.com profile] purpletigron, and G visited on New Year's Day and we went for a walk around Godmanchester. The river there had burst its banks and we were in awe of the amount of water covering the field. And now our garden nearly looks like that!)
Mood:: nervous
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 03:17am on 03/01/2003
That's [livejournal.com profile] purplecthulhu, [livejournal.com profile] purpletigron and G...

and [FX: Bibble!!!]
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 03:28am on 03/01/2003
Ta - edited to change bad usernames to good and proper ones. I had tried to call G purple_non_lj_user_and_possibly_not_even_purple but it hadn't quite worked.

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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 06:47am on 03/01/2003
Not purple... green. G says so, so it must be true...
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posted by [identity profile] green-amber.livejournal.com at 11:12am on 03/01/2003
Well, it would be lovely to have another [livejournal.com profile] green_person...
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posted by [identity profile] green-amber.livejournal.com at 11:14am on 03/01/2003
[ OT: Buggeration.]

Well, [as I said] it would be lovely to have another [livejournal.com profile] green_person...
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 11:36am on 03/01/2003
Now, that's impressive! Or maybe you just want to delete your first attempt?!!?

Anyhow, G's now decided on being orange. After all, "It's hard, being an orange cat!"
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posted by [identity profile] sbisson.livejournal.com at 03:26am on 03/01/2003
Well, the weather forecast is promising...
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not that i want to worry you...

posted by [identity profile] bohemiancoast.livejournal.com at 03:28am on 03/01/2003
But you might want to not go to Manchester, and do as much preventative action as possible instead. Have you looked at

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/subjects/flood/351186/351222/351261/?version=1&lang=_e ?

I guess you are fairly well sited for being somewhere where there are a lot of people around who know the right thing to do and will take appropriate action.
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 04:16am on 03/01/2003
TVM! We'll give it much thought before travelling.

Bug
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posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:30am on 06/01/2003
We looked at the web sites and ended up going home for another hour to do more preparations including clearing leaves from outside drains, moving some more things upstairs (had forgotten about contamination), plugging sinks etc, and leaving keys and mobile phone number with a neighbour who knows how to turn off gas and electric.

We checked the weather forecast and they were fairly definite there would be no more rain this weekend, so we went off to Manchester and had a jolly good time.
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posted by [identity profile] purpletigron.livejournal.com at 06:49am on 03/01/2003
I still can't get through to the Environment Agency web pages - I think their servers need upgrading...

I guess you are fairly well sited...

Funnilly, I was thinking just the same thing :-)
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posted by [identity profile] hawkida.livejournal.com at 04:13am on 03/01/2003
Good luck staying dry.
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posted by [identity profile] pickledginger.livejournal.com at 10:30am on 03/01/2003
Luck with the weather!
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posted by [identity profile] serendipoz.livejournal.com at 10:42am on 03/01/2003
There's a fair number of people locally who would appreciate some of the wet stuff in a frozen form. No ice fishing yet, nor much skiing.

Much luck staying dry.
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posted by [identity profile] major-clanger.livejournal.com at 04:30pm on 05/01/2003
Well, we were OK. The water is still pretty much where it was when we left, as I thought it would be.

The actual risk wasn't too high. The flooding out back isn't from a river concentrating the rainfll from a large catchment area; rather it is because the fields are waterlogged and the small drainage ditch that runs through them is full. As such, rainwater was just pooling in what was really a huge but very shallow puddle, and for it to rise another six inches would have taken an awful lot more rain on top of what we'd already had (Six inches would have had to flood several extra hectares too, we are that flat around here). The forecast was pretty definite that we weren't going to get that. Faced with waiting for a flood that was unlikely to happen and about which we had done about as much as we could, and going and enjoying ourselves at a gaming con, we took the latter option.

MC
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