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It's getting pretty wild out. Suspect the post '09 flood defences are in for their first real test......
Seeing various postings on Twitter and looking at the environment agency website, it looks pretty serious.
Record river levels at Threkeld and Greta Bridge now (by some distance). Stay safe guys.
Very high in Cockermouth too - hopefully new defences will hold. The Trout car park is starting to flood a bit.
The flood plane from Brigham down towards Workington is also well and truly flooded. Last time I saw it this full was Nov '09.
We're cut off now, still chucking it down and 5 hours til high tide. Daughter in tears as 6th party cancelled. Ah well, plenty cake.....
Saw this earlier:
Good luck boxelder.
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Post 2009 defences in Keswick. 🙁
Eek.
All the best to those of you in that part of the world.
Just been on Sky news those defenses have now been breached, suspect it will get worse before it gets better.
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Can't quite work out where on Derwent Water that actually is but then again it probably looks a bit different normally...
@cazgraham1 on Twitter
There's some incredible pictures of the River Kent through the middle of Kendal too.
Good luck everyone, just read all roads around Keswick closed
It's called The Boat House, I think
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Oops defences
Pretty wild here in Carlisle. River is up but a long way from the defences just yet. A shed load of flooded roads though. A69 is in a right shite state apparently.
Friends have just told me people in Cockermouth are being evacuated as the river has breached the new defences.
It's called The Boat House, I think
Yes, I recognise it now, I do know it.
The other property that never comes out of these things well is The Wateredge Inn in Ambleside, I've ridden past that in heavy flooding before and there was a drowned sheep bumping against the ground floor window. 🙁
Friends have just told me people in Cockermouth are being evacuated as the river has breached the new defences
A 'hundred year event' every few years now.
The Greta is still rising at Low Briery near Keswick - gauge went offline at Greta Bridge approaching a foot over 2009 levels. So things aren't looking good for Cockermouth.
Cumbria Police have just declared a major incident !!
Stay safe people.
It's certainly wild; wilder than it has been for the last couple of weeks. People have been told not to make any unnecessary journeys...but cycling is definitely necessary....as long as you dress appropriately.
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Patterdale Mountain Rescue reporting their base is Flooded
We're on high ground in Keswick and that's even flooding thoughts are with the people even worse off down the road, all emergency services on site - stay safe
Water is just pouring off the fells through the house and down the road 🙁
@rse, stay safe everyone.
Terrible day on the post lots of Propertys flooded in Staveley on my round Kendal is now cut off no getting in or out except for emergency services!!
Aye got some seriously impressive and scary pics of the river having burst it banks and flooding all the streets. Not there this weekend but was going to drive up today so that wont be happening
Stay safe out there folks its looking bad and gooseholme park area under and church at risk. bike in cellar so worried now
On BBC News now, reporter in Keswick. Pumping out the drains back into the river...
Post pics up or links of anything?
Couldn't get into Ambleside for work today, road in from windermere is closed.
Rain is still coming down heavily.
Hope everybody is ok
Some pics
cannot post mine from whatapp though
All roads in and out of Keswick now closed. We were there this time last year, and the year before.
Hope everyone's ok. The water coming over the flood defences looks bonkers. I can't believe how high it is!
Worst over here hopefully. Went out with the dog and ended up with some cold wet refugees - BMW dead after trying to drive through the 'puddle'. It's taken the front off the car and killed it. Hot drink and got them a tractor taxi to nearby hotel. There's a fair few abandoned cars arch deep in water. I'll try to post a PIC.
Some vids of Glenridding Beck in spate 😯
https://twitter.com/Mountain_Run?lang=en
Not sure I'd want to use that footbridge...
It's time for the National Parks & govt to listed to George Monbiot on how our subsidies of sheep & grouse moors are turning upland areas into deserts with little capacity to hold water. And just like deserts, when it rains, the areas downstream flood. We need to change the upland ecology by planting trees & allowing regrowth.
I couldn't agree less @moses The solution is not planting trees on high ground. This amount of flooding/rainfall is not that unusual
Cockermouth Main St and Wordsworth House now flooded..... 🙁
Well the "desertification" of the Lakes began at least as far back as the Romans, ever wondered how Fair[b]field[/b] got its name? It's not so much the lack of vegetation that's the problem at the moment but the huge amount of rain that the area has endured over the last month or so - the NW has had 200% of the average for November.
Veg is already regenerating. Flocks sizes have been down since F+M and single farm payment. Not saying afforestation won't help, but amount and intensity of rain has produced a second 1 in a 1000 year flood in a decade. Almost as though something global is affecting our climate.....
Well, the last 2 responses were at odds with each other.
This amount of flooding/rainfall is not that unusual
Yes it is. The churchyard at Appleby is flooded. Churches didn't get built in areas subject to flooding, as the graves lifted. The 2009 event was described as a once in 100years - except it's happened again.
Whitestone, yes the tree cover started to get cut back fromm the iron age onwards, but it's noticeably worse now. The pollen analyses show it's changed in the last 80 years. You can see run-off channels / hushes now that just weren't there when I was young.
313mm rainfall in the last 24hrs at one guage in centre of Lakes...
That is very very very unusual. Trust me.
This is potentially worse than 2009.
Struggle with links on my tablet but have a look at this
[url] https://twitter.com/CumbriaWeather/status/673203193212444672 [/url]
For updates/photos I'd recommend following Cumbria Crack on Twitter, I think they have a Facebook page too.
We came close to flooding on Thursday, and we're halfway up a hill.
Stay safe folks.
Edit:Take a look at Cumbria Crack (@CumbriaCrack): https://twitter.com/CumbriaCrack?s=09
This amount of flooding/rainfall is not that unusual
Record flood levels all across the lakes
Its really not usual levels of rainfall /flooding in these areas
Its is record braking levels of floods all across the lakes but hey we have you in the South to let us know.....thanks.
Some abolutely mental photos on here:
Some of them beggar belief though!
When people talk about 1 in a hundred year events it does not mean that it is unusual to get 2 back to back if they occur randomly.
Where do you live again Jammers?
Surrey? Where if you get a dusting of snow it's a national emergency?
You've made some outlandish claims on here, but by saying that this rainfall is 'nothing unusual' you've surpassed yourself sir 😆
It's liking a bit bonkers now. Way worse than I've seen before. We're quite a bit further south and it's not stopped raining here for weeks. We had flooding last week, but nothing remotely like this. Thoughts are with all you poor buggers coping with it. Stay safe you lot!