River Ock

The River Ock continued to rise overnight and peaked at 6:30 am, by which time Chaunterell Way was flooded. Neighbours helped each other to move things upstairs. The fire service was in attendance during the night.

When I looked in soon after 8 am, I spoke to Tom Greenaway, a town councillor for the ward. He had spoken to the owner of one property that had flooded and there were probably others. He said the County Council sent and distributed two flatback lorries with sandbags. A private company were delivering further sandbags while I was there,

There were also signs of near flooding from the River Ock at Meadowside where some of the fire fighters live. I did hear they were also sent to Abingdon Road in Oxford which is badly flooded.

The Ock Valley Walk is closed by flood water.

Water from Mill Stream Court had flooded Caldecott Road even more overnight. The Iron Bridge and St Helens Wharf was closed to traffic.

River Thames

The Margaret Brown Gardens were partly underwater and were closed during the morning. I can’t remember the River Thames covering so much of this small park.

There was flooding from drains along Wilsham Road, Townsend, Baker Road, and the bottom of Preston Road.

Geese and swans seemed reduced to eating grass where they could find it with so much grass underwater.

Thames Street had road flooding.

The view from Abingdon Bridge showed only a small triangle of land surrounded by water.

Large areas of the Abbey Meadows were underwater. The run off from the Mill Stream, near the weir, means that people can no longer access Abingdon Lock.

Thanks to Valonia for this final picture, from yesterday, of Rob, the morris dancer, setting out for supplies from Abingdon Marina where they live.  The Abingdon Marina carpark was fully underwater and the water was getting as close to the electricity supply as Valonia has seen it. The electricity might be off by now.