I’ve been working away from Abingdon this week so I was grateful to be sent some daytime pictures by kim, Bob, Spike, and Luke.
Kim sent me “a couple of people making the best of the floods.”
Bob sent me ‘My Scots mate is saying”I’m marooned!”‘
Spike sent me this pictures taken from his canoe – at 4pm today.
When I got home about three hours later water was washing over the pavement of St Helen’s Wharf.
The River Thames has finally reached the O and the Old Anchor Inn has not Opened. The Ock water levels are going down apart from the lower end. St Helen’s Mill is surrounded by water worse than I’d imagined.
Finally I was sent this dramatic picture from Luke’s iPhone. I’d like to feature more pictures but could run out of bandwidth this month. It was very close last month. If that happens back on December 1st with the Extravaganza.
Please forward these (and yesterday’s) pictures to Hallam Land Management. It’s hilly in Sheffield, so they may not understand how floods work 😉
if you are uploading high res images from the camera without reducing the file size, then you might be running out of bandwidth due to the images being excessively large. You might be able to reduce the files sizes, so they look fine on the monitor (most cameras have high resolution for prints), but use less space. Do email me if I can help further
Perhaps should also forward info to Hallam about the traffic jam today on the Drayton Road which stretched back to Drayton as it was the only route in from the south becase of floods.
Actually Sheffield was flooded very badly in 2007 – just like down here – and a couple of people died in the floods. But when there’s money to be made who cares about the impact on communities anywhere?
Since my son, his wife and daughter live in Sheffield, I am aware of what happens there? Hallam is in Sheffield and my comment was slightly tongue in cheek.
The proposed development requires local scrutiny precisely because of the risk of flooding and the certainty of congestion – not to mention, where you get extra teachers, classroom assistants and all the other social infrastructure.