I remember when it were all fields round here

[bugshaw]

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 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 major_clanger will be phoning the neighbours fairly frequently while we're away to check on the Lake's Progress!

(purplecthulhu, 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!)

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

That's purplecthulhu, purpletigron and G...

and [FX: Bibble!!!]

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

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.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Not purple... green. G says so, so it must be true...

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be lovely to have another green_person...

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

[ OT: Buggeration.]

Well, [as I said] it would be lovely to have another green_person...

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

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!"

[sbisson.livejournal.com]

Well, the weather forecast is promising...

not that i want to worry you...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: not that i want to worry you...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

TVM! We'll give it much thought before travelling.

Bug

Re: not that i want to worry you...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: not that i want to worry you...

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

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 :-)

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Good luck staying dry.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Luck with the weather!

[serendipoz.livejournal.com]

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.

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

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