Abingdon faced persistent rainfall throughout Monday. Runoff from the rainfall or blocked drains caused some roads to flood.
The Monday Market was reduced in size, with only four stalls open, and a lot of customers only going into town if they had to. The run off from the Market Street carpark caused some minor flooding to the back of some shops.
Roads throughout the town experienced surface flooding. In particular, the Northcourt Road junction with Oxford Road which often floods.
New developments, such as Radley Reach, saw their flood pools filling up as the rain continued throughout the day.
Tongue in cheek alert!
Where were the Thames Water buckets for storing the downfall?
I bet gardeners managed to fill watering cans and butts. How many million litres will TW have lost in leakage?
Leakage back into the groundwater!
And then….?
I’m just trying to think of who it was who has been warning about exactly this sort of thing for 30 years now?
Oh…….I remember.
The Eco Zealots.
Looks like they might be right
Who needs a new giant reservoir with all this rain, and the big drainage pools dug at all the housing developments? When Thames Water goes bust we can just get some water purification tablets from Amazon and sip merrily from the puddles and standing water on our roads and in our back gardens. Everybody get their vaccines and shots up to date beforehand though, please – safety first).