This isn’t the River Ouse though. This is the Foss, so it’s flooded other areas. If they hadn’t managed to fix the pumps today, there’d be a lot more than 9″ of water in those areas, and the phone calls warning people to drag their gear upstairs is interesting.
Walking out of town this morning I noticed the traffic is solid all the way through the centre and reportedly out to Poppleton, outside the outer ring road. Never seen it so bad.
The Ouse has breached its banks, but it’s not so bad the flood barriers are locked yet. When it gets really bad it enters the rear of the PO sorting office and then our mail gets disrupted as it shifts to Leeds. Coincidentally, the reason our sorting office is likely to shut down is based on the results of using Leeds in the past during another bad flood period.