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Well we're used to lots of rain in this part of the world, but today's deluge was pretty torrential.

The road outside St. Mary's school in Ossy is about 3-5 feet underwater. I only came back that way thinking I'd miss all the traffic at home time. I imagine it was terrible when the children were leaving, and the new houses across the road were underwater too.

I've never seen the Tinker brook so high. It must have risen at least fifteen feet in the Foxhill Bank nature reserve. Any higher and it will flood over the path into the larger pond.

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my back garden

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LOL Garinda, not that deep :D
3 Fella's stood in it poking the grate with a stick and its not over their wellies :)
They weren't happy when the bus shot round the police car and went through it causing a wave :D :D

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The grass needs cutting :rolleyes::D

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Your fish have escaped too

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Normally you can't see the Tinker Brook from this angle.

Another two feet and it will break over the path, and flood into the lodge in the background.

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Well when l drove through the shallower side, at about 2.30 pm, it was over my tyres, and the otherside was flooding into the new houses built on Paddock House's old field.

Perhaps the stick poking men had released the worst before you saw it.:D

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Spugs at home ... ive been waiting for him to come down and do it ... :D:D:D

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Nah I've been watching em struggle through, breakdown, wet everyone through all afternoon :D

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If it's an electric mower, check his life assurance policies, before you send the poor lad out.;)

:D

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Its gone now, safe to come through, only one lane because of the council wagon though

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All the cars infront of me turned round, and wouldn't drive through, including three taxis.

Ok, if you were expecting the flood plains of the Serengeti, it wasn't that bad.

I knew I'd be alright because when they used to drown witches, the innocent sank, and only the evil ones floated.

:D

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...but her bush is neatly trimmed.

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Instead of watching it, if you'd been a bit more industrious you could have whittled a raft together, or even done a St Christopher, and carried people across, and charged them a groat each way.

:D

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Please don't, I am eating (not bush :D)

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Took council 3 hour to turn up, now their on overtime the place is over run with them

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Which one? the red robin or the chocolate tree? :D:D:D

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The red looking one.

Your chocolate one shouldn't really need it.

:eek::D:eek:

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The red robin has never ever been pruned ... it dont need it .. not yet anyway ...

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Tinker brook HAS flooded into the lodge twice in the last 7 years. I will try and find the photos and scan them.

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rising bridge was very bad yesterday with waterfalls spewing into teh roads from teh fields, soil sliding away onto teh roads and lots of flooded gardens.

on teh bright side my alloy wheels have never looked cleaner and it was lots of fun making big splashes as i zoomed through teh huge puddles :D

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An old lady told me that just now.

I only moved back here five years ago, and it hasn't happened in that time.

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I know someone who though that was fun. The big splash was sucked into his air intake and caused the engine to instantly stop. A piece of broken piston punched a whole through his crankcase and the engine was scrap.

He does not think it is fun any more. I only laughed when i went to help him out as to why if would not start. I pointed out the hole and that you could see the crank through it :D:D:D

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The worst I saw it Rindi was back in 62 or 63 when the Tinker was like a raging torrent and what is now the nature reserve was under 3ft of water