At times like this I'm glad I live on a hill. After a night of torrential rain it’s now a beautiful sunny morning here in the Midlands....the quiet before the storm unfortunately, heavy rain is forecast again by late afternoon.
Commiserations to all who are not so lucky and who are suffering flood damage.
Torrential rain and strong winds all night in Norfolk, now just the strong gusty winds and a brighter sky. Friends down on the Suffolk coast have blue skies and bright sunshine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Bright blue sky and sun. The next onslaught comes in this afternoon.
36mm rain overnight.
One village near here has £1mill flood defences opened with great hurrah about 3 months ago. Defences failed last night! All raods to where daughter lives are closed. Tries to ring her but no reply which i guess means she has managed to get out. I can't even say staying on main roads get yu through because they are flooded as well.
Strong gusty winds all night. The morning was lovely and sunny but still breezy. The breeze has now died down but the sun has also gone. I think rain is due very soon, but we are lucky as we are not flooded as so many people are.
Over cast and cold here, it rained in the night but has been rain free all day. I've been mopping up a flood in the basement. No real damage, it looks like water has come up through a drain and as the floor isn't level couldn't flow back down.
The new window over the basement in the front garden is so new looking it's putting the paint work at the front to shame, if a bucket of hot soapy water doesn't show improvements, then I've another item on the 'jobs to do list' this winter...painting.
Still raining - but not as heavily as before. We avoided the floods, but the next village came within an inch of being deluged. Several other places have fared badly, but the week's forecast is for colder but drier weather thank goodness. (If anyone saw Countryfile today, you will have seen us as the first village to have a full flood action plan in place. How lucky we are to have avoided the worst).
Stockton on Tees, terrible, the road is a river belting downhill, luckily for the houses down there it runs into a shallow valley which is a raging torrent but still room to expand, they should be OK. Had a new TV delivered this morning at SEVEN THIRTY yikes, good job I was up and about, the driver said he had only just made it up our hill as all the dips were flooded and the cars stuck, in other words we are cut off. Posh we were both mentioned on Country File, I saw the village and did wonder if it was you then we got a specific mention in the weather forecast, watch out Teesside, she was right. I reckon it is a stay in day, may make some soup and a crusty loaf, cannot stand idle and daytime TV is not my mode.
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At times like this I'm glad I live on a hill. After a night of torrential rain it’s now a beautiful sunny morning here in the Midlands....the quiet before the storm unfortunately, heavy rain is forecast again by late afternoon.
Commiserations to all who are not so lucky and who are suffering flood damage.
Torrential rain and strong winds all night in Norfolk, now just the strong gusty winds and a brighter sky. Friends down on the Suffolk coast have blue skies and bright sunshine
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We're partway up a hill too David.
WManchester-we've also got brightening skies after a night of heavy rain. Ooh the sun has managed it. Brisk winds though. J.
Bright blue sky and sun. The next onslaught comes in this afternoon.
36mm rain overnight.
One village near here has £1mill flood defences opened with great hurrah about 3 months ago. Defences failed last night! All raods to where daughter lives are closed. Tries to ring her but no reply which i guess means she has managed to get out. I can't even say staying on main roads get yu through because they are flooded as well.
Strong gusty winds all night. The morning was lovely and sunny but still breezy. The breeze has now died down but the sun has also gone. I think rain is due very soon, but we are lucky as we are not flooded as so many people are.
Over cast and cold here, it rained in the night but has been rain free all day. I've been mopping up a flood in the basement. No real damage, it looks like water has come up through a drain and as the floor isn't level couldn't flow back down.
The new window over the basement in the front garden is so new looking it's putting the paint work at the front to shame, if a bucket of hot soapy water doesn't show improvements, then I've another item on the 'jobs to do list' this winter...painting.
Still raining - but not as heavily as before. We avoided the floods, but the next village came within an inch of being deluged. Several other places have fared badly, but the week's forecast is for colder but drier weather thank goodness. (If anyone saw Countryfile today, you will have seen us as the first village to have a full flood action plan in place. How lucky we are to have avoided the worst).
You are all lucky. Well done to your village as well, saw it on Countryfile - between sea and river is that the right one?
Stockton on Tees, terrible, the road is a river belting downhill, luckily for the houses down there it runs into a shallow valley which is a raging torrent but still room to expand, they should be OK.
Had a new TV delivered this morning at SEVEN THIRTY yikes, good job I was up and about, the driver said he had only just made it up our hill as all the dips were flooded and the cars stuck, in other words we are cut off.
Posh we were both mentioned on Country File, I saw the village and did wonder if it was you then we got a specific mention in the weather forecast, watch out Teesside, she was right.
I reckon it is a stay in day, may make some soup and a crusty loaf, cannot stand idle and daytime TV is not my mode.
Frank.