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Title: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 08:48
Anyone been hit hard? Seems like most of the Island is under water...

St Johns train station...

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0803/WesRS/IMG-20131224-WA0002_zps4a068281.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/WesRS/media/IMG-20131224-WA0002_zps4a068281.jpg.html)

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and Lukely Brook that runs down the back of my house...

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I'm on flood alert until 5pm this evening. Merry Christmas  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: JC on 24 December 2013, 08:58
Well you do live on a lickle Island Wez  :grin:

Ferries back running yet or you still cut off  :lipsrsealed:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Bellend on 24 December 2013, 09:05
Not any flooding but 5 trees over next door, three gigantic Fir trees all uprooted two against a garage and one blocked the road missing 3 cars by a foot.

We have a new tree over from the cliffe that blew into the garden. :grin:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Diamond Hell on 24 December 2013, 09:10
Power cut from 2AM until 8:30 this morning here.

I always buys my houses a long way up a hill, so not worried about no flooding in Norfwood, nipper.

Corrado doesn't like wading :(  Seems to have recovered afterwards though, which is nice.
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 09:28
I think the ferry services have been patchy all through the night but that's no different than normal.

I've got no reason to go outside my front door this morning so I will be monitoring it from my bedroom window. The rain has just started again, I'm just holding on for high tide again.

Chuff, Coppins Bridge roundabout is underwater lol
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Bellend on 24 December 2013, 09:37

Was quite scary pulling the MK4 out from under a tree then that causing it to twist and fall completely. Mind you the MK4s bonnet saved the neighbors new BMW. Saying that, being a 1 series it probably would have been an improvement.

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Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 24 December 2013, 10:05
Just failed miserably at getting to work this morning. Too many trees down and floods! My undertray has been ripped off and front bumper is now loose after going through a deeper-than-it-looked puddle  :grin: damn french screws

There was a totalled mk3 with a chunky tree on its roof at the side of the road near hindhead    :laugh:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: JC on 24 December 2013, 10:19
i had to stand my wheelie bin back up this morning  :whistle:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 10:37
Missus has just had a walk down the road and there are people about 20 houses away dumping their sofas outside as they have about 2ft of water in their house. I think I got away lightly...
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: mcgee9t2 on 24 December 2013, 10:50
i had to stand my wheelie bin back up this morning  :whistle:
a plant pot blew over in my backgarden...

good news is the girls up north will still be going out on the lash in skimpy cloths, bad news for you southerners is you wownt see a pair of girls legs on the town till march now... :grin:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 11:03
bad news for you southerners is you wownt see a pair of girls legs on the town till march now... :grin:

Probably a good thing given the abundance of obese young women residing over here who think they look beautiful in a skimpy outfit
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Diamond Hell on 24 December 2013, 11:13
Probably a good thing given the abundance of obese young women residing over here who think they look beautiful in a skimpy outfit

IOW's not so different to Newcastle Upon Tyne after all then. :grin:

There are people about 20 houses away dumping their sofas outside as they have about 2ft of water in their house. I think I got away lightly...

Why were they using their sofas as sandbags? :huh:

Numpties.
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Steve_PD on 24 December 2013, 12:06
34c today with a slight south westerly wind, but it did cloud over around 3pm which brought the temp down a little... :lipsrsealed: :grin:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 12:31
show off :wink:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 12:48
A pic of the end of my road...

(http://www.iwcp.co.uk/Files/Images/image.jpeg?width=440&height=587)
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Wazzzer on 24 December 2013, 13:43
and two doors up from my parents house

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Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Shady Pioneer on 24 December 2013, 17:18
Yeovil was pretty bad last night with constant downpour. Many places that never usually flood did and quite bad too! I saw a tree come down right in front of me too. A massive one for that matter. If I had been 15 seconds earlier I probably wouldn't be writing this! :undecided:
Title: Re: Flooding...
Post by: Shady Pioneer on 24 December 2013, 17:25
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