Floods.

[garinda]

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.

 

[shillelagh]

my back garden

 

[K.S.H]

LOL Garinda, not that deep
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

 

[Neil]

my back garden

The grass needs cutting

 

[K.S.H]

Your fish have escaped too

 

[garinda]

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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[garinda]

LOL Garinda, not that deep
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

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.

 

[shillelagh]

The grass needs cutting

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

 

[K.S.H]

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

 

[garinda]

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

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

 

[K.S.H]

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

 

[garinda]

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

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.

 

[garinda]

The grass needs cutting

...but her bush is neatly trimmed.

 

[garinda]

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

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.

 

[Neil]

...but her bush is neatly trimmed.

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

 

[K.S.H]

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

 

[shillelagh]

...but her bush is neatly trimmed.

Which one? the red robin or the chocolate tree?

 

[garinda]

Which one? the red robin or the chocolate tree?

The red looking one.

Your chocolate one shouldn't really need it.

 

[shillelagh]

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

 

[Spider61]

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