Never mind your houses, I got stuck in London last night. No trains north. Just joined a human tide to get a standing room only Edinburgh train. No idea how I'll get to Leeds, let alone home.
Still, could have been waiting for a border to open I guess and at least shortage of water isn't an issue.
No idea how I’ll get to Leeds, let alone home.
@johnx2 - services are running from Manchester Victoria to Leeds. The Piccadilly end of things still seems problematic although services are apparently back to normal* through the Hope Valley (Manchester - Sheffield) now.
*Normal being 1 train per hour each way at weekends...
Ta. I do have a plan, to double back from York. I don't want to get stuck in Doncaster. Ever really...
A group I'm in on Facebook are going to hope for a ride this weekend!
Some people are nuts, some routes are bad enough after just a bit of rain.
A group I’m in on Facebook are going to hope for a ride this weekend!
Yes, there's folk on the Peak District MTB page asking if they can get to Hope/Edale, would it be OK to ride Cut Gate...? 😳
Morons.
As far as i can see, the only "threat to life" flood warnings in England are in Derby city centre. Lots of folks on FB saying the new flood defences have failed, but AIUI they've protected most of the city centre which they were intended to do.
The car museum place at Ambergate just avoided being flooded, and have posted to say the water levels are dropping.
Ilkeston train station is underwater, a colleague has suggested I canoe to the office on Monday
@morecashthandash it’s settled right down here now, facebook groups reporting no real issues on the roads, safe journey.
"As far as i can see, the only “threat to life” flood warnings in England are in Derby city centre."
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Just seen a vid on FB from apparently just now - Chatsworth road in Chesterfield, still like a torrential river
As far as i can see, the only “threat to life” flood warnings in England are in Derby city centre.
North East Scotland is the only area I see with any warnings.
Darwin award nomination?
They film from downwind at one point...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-67180162
it’s settled right down here now, facebook groups reporting no real issues on the roads, safe journey.
Thanks for that, looks like the roads here are clear enough to get through so should be ok, and possibly clear skies for star gazing at Twice Brewed tonight, and the big book shop at Alnwick tomorrow!
MCA aerial footage of Angus
https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100064678208383&story_fbid=718047027027898
At Matt.
Some folk just seem to know better than everyone else,I mean,what could possibly go wrong 🙄
Thanks for that, looks like the roads here are clear enough to get through so should be ok, and possibly clear skies for star gazing at Twice Brewed tonight, and the big book shop at Alnwick tomorrow!<br /><br />
Enjoy!
It’s a must for anyone with an interest in books. There’s also a small one in the centre that gets some little gems in Lexicon Books, happens to be right next to bar too.
Ilkeston train station is underwater, a colleague has suggested I canoe to the office on Monday
I'm supposed to be travelling from Sheffield to Nottingham next Wednesday on the train - that's Chesterfield and Ilkeston. Hmm...
Anyway, river levels here (River Goyt, NW Derbyshire) are dramatically lower than yesterday. Still high but nowhere near what they were. Dry and overcast at the moment, very little wind.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6718016 2">Trails 'coming alive ' courtesy of the storm. The question of what the hell the guy filming was doing out in a forest in a storm I can't answer!
Great training video from that clown.
Don't go into the woods in a storm.
Took a run round the local woods (larch plantation) here in Inverness yesterday morning, it wasn't windy but it had been a bit breezy over night. Plenty of branches on the deck that had they come down on anyone they would have done a bit of damage.
^^^Having made it home, I am now heading for the coast, for surf tomorrow. Looks like you can get barrelled without leaving the carpark. Or indeed the car.
Those coast videos.
Every.
****ing.
Time.
Darwin award indeed. Same for that fud in the forest.
Did they cancel the wave classic this year on account of the weather ?
bigdean - no street flooding in Newark...yet.
Trent is very high near the Castle; Farndon marine is inaccessible.
I would expect the towns/villages with a flooding history to be badly affected.
From the bypass you can see extensive field flooding but that's nothing new.
Driving down the old A46 - the fosseway - from Farndon towards Syerston there's a stretch of the Trent which, in normal weather conditions, is at least half a mile from the road but today it's about 20 yards away.
Even if there is no further rain - unlikely, I know - there is still a lot of water to flow through from upstream.
matt_outandabout
Full MemberDarwin award nomination?
They film from downwind at one point…
Saw that on reddit the other night, it was about 90% people going "that's so cool, where is it, I want to see that" and 10% going "yeah if you want to die". I
Rain has stopped, wind has gone, and lovely sunset up here in Angus 😁
Set to be a nice sunny day tomorrow, so I'll hopefully get out for a spin and see how things are on my favourite roads.
frankconway- cheers for that.
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Rain has stopped, wind has gone, and lovely sunset up here in Angus
Same here - other side of the Pennines from the worst of it in Derby/Chesterfield and this afternoon was lovely, roads (mostly) dried out.
I drove up from Southampton to Tyne mouth last night. It wasn’t a bad journey really. Dry until Watford gap then
wet through the midlands and round Sheffield etc then dried up north of there. Was windy after Leeds but not anything to really worry about.
I have been super busy last few days and hadn’t seen the news/ weather reports.
Saw the tynemouth pier lighthouse had blown off this morning.
Nice here today. Up to rothbury, well a few miles north of rothbury tomorrow. Bought my wellies with me!
Like Longdog, I think we will emerge from water watching here on the farm to head out for a wee road trundle tomorrow, have a look at some of the flooding all around and the raging rivers. The floodwater we can see on the western half of Strathmore is pretty impressive and the trees have suddenly lost most of their leaves.
We went to the Falls of Briar today in Perthshire.
They were really rather low.
Lots of debris from the wind - but clearly not a lot of rain there.
Odd.
That's what keeps susprising me about this one, it was so localised.
Longdog, you can see my house in that video! Local businesses in the old mill down my way are gone. The water even tore the road up and moved a full 40 foot container about a 100 metres. That was after just one days rain, yet the water receded even though it rained pretty much all day yesterday.
For half-term, we have booked a cottage in the centre of Castleton (Hope Valley) from tomorrow until Friday.
I've had a bit of a search and can't find any worrying news about flood problems in the local area, but was just wondering if anyone can help with some more local knowledge?
We'll be coming up the A1 and normally cut across on the A616, but that goes through Chesterfield which I think suffered some flooding, so I'm not sure whether to plan a different route?
. @stumpy01 - sorry, I should probably have added that I wouldn't be back until now!
The main road (A6187) from Winnats Pass through Castleton, Hope, Bamford, Hathersage is all open, no issues at all.
The A6013 (from Bamford north up to the A57/Snake Pass junction) is passable but has some BIG puddles sort of 1/2 - 2/3rds the way across the road.
The tiny little back lanes on the north and south of the main road (so Aston/Thornhill to the north and Pindale to the south) are a mess, there's still sheets of water coming off the hills and flowing down those lanes with the usual gravel/branches etc. Fine on a gravel bike or MTB, not somewhere I'd want to be riding a nice road bike!
It's worth a trip up to Ladybower Res, the drainage 'plugholes' are spectacular.
No idea about Chesterfield / Derby way I'm afraid but Google Maps seems fairly up to date with road closures.
Edit: the Hope Valley railway line is running a normal service, Sheffield - Manchester.
Amazing! Thanks.
I'm staying in Castleton with the family all week. Sadly the bike will be staying at home, but we're going to get out and have a good explore.
Been in York over the weekend, no sign of anything until today, the Ouze has burst it's banks but was only covering the roadway alongside (running towards Rountree Park from Nunnery Walk).
Got home and one of the bins was couped over, if that's all we got then we did okay.
The Trent, north of Newark, is quite a sight with so much land under water - worse than I've seen in my 30 years in the area.
The gypsy/traveller site at Tolney Lane is cut off and a post to the online version of the local paper commented that...the crime rate will show an immediate reduction.
Made me smile.
@stumpy01 Chesterfield is completely navigable, apart from a handful of side roads. You'll be fine getting to Castleton. There was a video online and the stream through Castleton was running very high, but I think the bulk of the village avoided severe flooding.
Flying from Glasgow to Heathrow yesterday… I’ve never seen the country so wet.
I’ve never seen the country so wet.
That’s because people think it’s acceptable to fly from Glasgow to London
The sooner such flights are banned the better
Oof, shots fired.
Out on the roads yesterday around the Goyt Valley etc, so much run off from the surrounding hills, and so much of it in places I've never seen before. Lots of gravel and soil has been left on the roads, was a bit spicy on two wheels at times.
