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sorry to report but I think the bush may be soggy, on the plus side might not have to watch England being mashed by NZ tomorrow
anyone know the conditions in glenridding and should i drive via kirkstone pass way from windemere or from a66 to penrith then down to ullswater. Cheers anyone 🙂
BBC [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/cumbria/travel/roads.shtml ]travel page linky[/url] probably avoid anything with Lake in the name
The Police were saying not to use any bridges today either... which is a bit of a bind. I think that means I can go to Barrow, but that's about it!
So... another day at home then! Will go and check out Spark Bridge later on, see if the water has gone down and if their pumping station still works....
How come we haven't seen simonfbarnes leading a herd of bikes through this yet?
we're due to ride from Newbie Bridge on Saturday - I understand that's underwater at present 🙂
Water levels have dropped a huge amount, fields that were flooded yesterday can be seen again!
The Police were saying not to use any bridges today either..
Don't try to use the bridge in Lorton:
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There was a land rover parked on the middle of it last night!
A66 seems to be still closed my GF is trying to get here but being turned around as they try and get the cars out of the dual carrigeway
where is the land rover from the bridge?
[i]where is the land rover from the bridge? [/i]
2 miles downstream, upside down in a swamp!
Has anyone else seen the pictures of Northside Bridge?! OMG! it's all gone!
anyone know where green gate junction is by ullswater im meant to be going to glenridding in the morning and a592 is closed from pooley bridge to green gate junction but i cant find out if thats before or after glenridding. cheers for any info or links. thanks mick
The bridge 200m to the west of Northside bridge is, sorry was, the C2C
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Keswick had around 60mm rain today between 09 am and 09 pm...that's less than half that Gloucester had in the floods there a couple of years ago.
Yes but parts of the catchment area have seen over 300mm in 24 hours (an English record) double the amount in Gloucester a couple of years ago.
Yeah Navies bridge is also gone the main CTC route. I lived in Workington for 25 years and have never seen anything even approaching this level of rain...
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Lorton Valley
It's the speed/power of the water that's impressive - no opportunist canoeists out on these floodwaters - stand back in awe.
Our babysitters corsa was parked next to the Land Rover on that bridge!
crazylegs - good guess, but it's only about 100m downstream, and ironically, almost back in the owners garden.
The road I should take to work
The little beck by the village green
"Singletrack HQ was cut off from the rest of Yorkshire yesterday"
Surely it should be;
"Singletrack HQ surrounded by water, Yorkshire isolated"
boxelder - I can only see red boxes for your pictures...
boxelder - I can only see red boxes for your pictures...
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Just had a spin in to Keswick, I like the way the Tesco lorry didn't quite make it past Booths!
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The river Greta towards Crosthwaite Road from High Hill.
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The boat house Derwent Water.
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boxelder - I can only see red boxes for your pictures...#2
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No it's not.
nope still knackered for me. and ive done ctrl+f5
boxelder 's pics:-
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Hope that's not your house mate?
No, not ours. Funnily enough most of the buildings here are old and built with this in mind (to an extent). The white one in the background, that the beck's heading for survived with some water in a back kitchen.
The BBC phoned up before, because I'd sent them some pictures ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/8368999.stm). Bit of a bizarre moment, as I was talking to them, watching a mate live on the TV and listening to a Sea King hovering overhead.
Just back from Cockermouth, where they've shut Sainsbury's to use the big car park as an emergency services base. I suspect they know there's more to come. As I said before, the sheer force of the water's quite frightening. The town will take a long time to recover I reckon, with most businesses on the Main St, which had 6' plus of water (flowing at a fair pace).
Thoughts to the family of that policeman. Tragic.
Mate lives (lived?) Between the bowling green and river @ Cockermouthn He'd just finished his ground floor after earlier flooding. Called him last night when he said his house was 8 feet deep!
Sympathies to the family of the PC swept to his death.
nice to see the people in the Sheep n Wool centre interviewed, one woman going well weve had floods before you know just a foot or two but nothing like this.
Seems very calm and restrained in town nice to see.
Just waiting for some friends to make it from Kendal, they got to Ambleside to be turned back should be here soon (I home) if not bit pot of curry going first come first served top of Lorton Valley, anybody needs any help Cockermouth side let me know we are warm & dry and have space. Mail should be in profile
The BBC finally recognise my artistic genius:
Dera AndyThanks very much for sending in your picture. Just to let you know that we have made it the Picture of the Day on the website - link here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/default.stm
Just click on the small image on the right to reveal the full picture.
Thanks again for sending it in.
Kind regards,Steven Williams
BBC News
Shame about the spelling!!
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Blimey, what a crazy 24hrs! Got to say top effort to all the emergency services, coastguard, mountain rescue, RSPCA in boats etc, etc who have invaded Cockermouth to try and get it back to some kind of near normality. Have to take your hats off to these guys wading round in dry suits all day and night, fishing out people and animals. Thoughts go out to the family and friends of the police officer who went down with the bridge.
Who knows what tomorrow brings.....does anyone have a 4x4 I can steal for the weekend (I'm a vet who might get called out and drive a 306, eekk!!)
does anyone have a 4x4 I can steal for the weekend (I'm a vet who might get called out and drive a 306, eekk!!)
You've got a mountain bike ain't you?
Nice thought but might have a bit of a balance issue with a calving jack on a MTB....
Hope everyone OK at the mo, thoughts are with you.
We were up at the Middle Ruddings hotel in Braithwaite last weekend for a climbing club do: Had a drive out to the Old Vicarage at Lorton on Saturday (home to a very memorable holiday about 20 years ago) and had an interesting drive to Keswick via Watendlath over (an even then semi- flooded) Honister.
Spent a pleasant hungover Sunday watching the duathlon at Whinlatter and planned to come back and ride the trails before Christmas.
Not sure if any aid/help set up just yet, but please post on here there's anything we can do: Just think, if only ten people contribute £15.00 we can send you an On One frame 😀
Now the schoolboy excitement (for me anyway) has gone, it feels strange. Went into Cockermouth for shopping today - only one way in. Brown was in town, the army had arrived, scores of folk in rescue kit and lots of confused looking locals staring at what was going on. It's a traditional Cumbrian market town, with most shops and businesses on the Main St. They're all going to be shut for quite a while. Spoke to the guy who lives in the white house in the pic of the collapsed bridge [s]above[/s] here:
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They knew it was going to flood, so lifted everything to around three feet and went to bed. They were woken by the piano tipping over and then the water blew their windows in, filling the house to over 4 feet. They were stuck upstairs for about 24 hrs, without power, light or water. They heard the bridge go (20m away) at about 2am.
People are very stoical about it all. I'm amazed there was only 1 death.
OK, I replace the request for a 4x4 with a one for a boat please....
Now the bridges are gone throughout the area its getting a little more surreal by the minute. Its going to be a very difficult few months with transport links totally messed up. One of my nurses faces a 40 mile round trip from her parents to her boyfriends, when they live 2 miles apart as the crow flies.
The picture above only adds to the realisation that we have been lucky really that more people haven't perished.
Boxelder - I trust you only had the rumoured '1 handbasket per person' in Sainsbury's earlier 😉
I shopped in Co-op and will try even harder to shop at smaller local shops from now on - they'll need all the help they can get.
I couldn't get in the Co-op earlier this morning!I obviously must look like a looter 😀 But yeah, absolutely the small businesses need everyones support from now on, hope the community will pull together like they have over the last 3 days. On the plus side, the Christmas tree is still up!!
Boxelder!
Where is that bridge and white house. I lived in Cockermouth for 4 years befor coming back to Keswick.
I really do feel for those in town as we used quite a lot of the shops on the main st, (we found Sainsburys too expensive !!!)
We thought it was bad here initially... simply devastating 😥
It's the main bridge in Low Lorton - near Winder Hall and 100m up from The Wheatsheaf - goes over the Cocker to the Thackthwaite road.
Cheers!
I did a ride yesterday on the cross bike from Staveley over the fells to Newby Bridge then up through Grizedale. Mix of on and off road then out at Clappersgate and round into Ambleside. The Wateredge Inn had become the Middleofthelake Inn - there was a drowned sheep floating against its ground floor windows. The whole lower road and a couple of car parks were flooded to about 3-4ft although I did see one of the AA 4x4 recovery vehicles plough straight through it, water streaming over the bonnet.
Saw quite a few stranded cars but what was most surreal was how quiet it was. Grizedale Visitor Centre was completely closed, there wasn't a soul around. Ambleside, normally so busy on weekends was virtually deserted and even the Wheelbase car park in Staveley was only about 1/3rd full; normally you can't move in there by weekend lunchtime.
There's a fund set up to help those who are suffering and need finacial help in the area, the link if you feel you want to help is [url= http://www.cafonline.org/apps/news/article.aspx?articleid=6565&charityname=Cumbria%20Community%20Foundation ]Cumbria Flood Recovery Fund[/url]
Good point Dobbo.
There is also this lot
[url= http://www.mountain.rescue.org.uk/ ]mountain rescue england and wales[/url]
and these
[url= http://www.rnli.org.uk/ ]rnli[/url]
Saw this on the BBC site and thought it was pretty funny. Midnight solo paddle on the Nith at Dumfries. 😀
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