Have you battened down your hatches??

[Andy in Germany]

Issues are moving downstream, river peaked sooner than predicted in Boroughbridge so no doubt pictures of a flooded York on TV this evening. Just started raining again here.

York Rowing Club website says the river is "3 steps from the road and rising". Unfortunately the webcam is down, but Google Streetview shows the steps referred to.

 

[chriswoody]

Amazing footage of the Hastings Lifeboat heading out on a shout yesterday:



My hometown of Ilfracombe has a Shannon class lifeboat as well, absolutely amazing boats and really brave crew.

 

[Globalti]

People have been flooded again after Boxing Day 2015, they must be miserable. The Ribble passed the 2015 record by a few inches, but what's on the BBC1 news this morning? Wall-to-wall Oscars with all the falsity and posing.

 

[Andy in Germany]

People have been flooded again after Boxing Day 2015, they must be miserable. The Ribble passed the 2015 record by a few inches, but what's on the BBC1 news this morning? Wall-to-wall Oscars with all the falsity and posing.

London wasn't flooded then.

 

[oldwheels]

Hail showers which seem to be lying. Does not seem much wind here but all Oban ferries cancelled for the rest of today. Lochaline ferry eventually sailed but for how long? Corran has started sailing again after earlier cancellation. Trouble with Lochaline route is that it is a long trip on partly single track if you find at the end the ferry is off. Probably no overnight accommodation so a long winding trip back or sleep in your vehicle as I have had to do in the past.

 

[Dave7]

Our planned trip to New Brighton is cancelled as the sea front is closed all the way from NB to Hoylake. Ferries and trains are cancelled.
Quite calm here at the moment ut the strong winds are forecast to return for tomorrow.

 

[nickyboy]

Are there chickens sleeping in the willow trees?


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BK7P4Sgomtw

 

[fossyant]

Gusty in Manchester City Centre.

 

[classic33]

One from inside a house in Mytholmroyd yesterday.

 

[I like Skol]

Off to the supermarket for the family shop. Wish me luck.....

 

[Andy in Germany]

One from inside a house in Mytholmroyd yesterday.
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Thank goodness for solid windows. I suppose that's also an advantage of windows openg outwards in the UK.

 

[ColinJ]

Thank goodness for solid windows. I suppose that's also an advantage of windows openg outwards in the UK.

I bet the water got in eventually!

Some of that brown colouration would be due to peat. A lot of it was probably something less pleasant***...!

*** When the main road through Hebden Bridge flooded once, some children were seen using it as a swimming pool, oblivious to the human turds floating around them!

 

[Oxford Dave]

I had no idea Hebden Bridge was susceptible to flooding - my band plays there once a year, usually in April. Last year it was good weather, the year before some of the band stayed overnight and woke up to find themselves snowed in! We're going a bit later this year, mid-May.

 

[classic33]

 

[Blue Hills]

London wasn't flooded then.

I know where you are coming from.
The bbc breakfast prog actually comes from salford, not a million miles from the ribble, dales, cumbria etc, though i suppose that makes their focus on hollywood worse. Centre of news still london.