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treehugger80
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just been informed by a friend that my allotment plot is underwater (it is next to a pond so it happens sometimes) but I've also just had my boss come into the office and warn us (the ones who have actually made it in to work so far) that the beck near our office has just been put on flood warning and can we keep an eye on it as we have the windows facing it!
looks like today might be interesting!
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Oooh dear! Take care Treehugger - whereabouts are you?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Teesside, office is in Middlesbrough, allotment is in Darlington. Luckily I live on a hill in Stockton so the chances of my house and garden flooding are slim!
Phew! Glad your house and garden will be ok
I'm keeping an eye on weather conditions as we'll be travelling from East Anglia to the West Country in a couple of days and as the car is a convertible all the electrics are in the floor rather than the roof - we don't do driving through floods!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mmmm my whole town was flooded recently, there was a torrent of water running down the high street. I couldn't get out of the car becasue it was running so fast.
Got home to find neighbours bungalow completely flooded, our house was ok becasue it's on a six foot slope with lots of stairs up to the front door.
I don't know what's happening with the weather at the moment - waved hubby off to work earlier, he has to drive to Sidcup on his motorbike all this week which is one and a half hours away and it was absolutely torrential with high winds. Luckily he is from Yorkshire so is used to horrible weather and just shrugs it off.
Why don't they send you home early Treehugger - empoyers always leave it too late putting people at risk. I remember one winter it snowed heavily and I kept asking my boss (on the phone) if I could go early - she kept saying no even though no patients turned up and by the time I was eventually allowed to go the buses had stopped and I had no way of getting home and had to spend two nights on a hard clinic bench unable to get home I was absolutely livid.
the rain is subsiding here, the flood warnings are now just alerts, but they have just put out another severe weather warning for rain from Wednesday night onwards till Friday early hours, so we'll have to wait and see what the weekend brings!