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Dunmail Raise road 😯
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water flooded the cellar to about 6 foot but stayed just below the first floor so no real damage done
Lifeboats outside the door so the river kent burst its banks by about 200 metres!!!
Good luck to everyone in the Lakes. Drove down Dunmail a few weeks ago 😯
Amazing Kinder video.
Nature is both beautiful and awful at th same time!
Jambo, which particular
are you thinking of that could have made a difference here? We're talking about a sparsely populated area, not the sodding Thames Valley. Have you travelled north of the M4 ?modifcation of river flows and flood planes due to development
Dunmail road 😯 😯 😯
@moses I think three have tried to point out to him that the Lakes National park is not swamped by developments and river diversions 😯
He has go to be just posting for laughs as no one can actually think that, Either way it pointless though as he needs no facts to form nor maintain his view as he is demonstrating on this thread
Threkeld to Keswick Cycle bridge gone probably for ever!
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Some "amazing" pictures in Carlisle, I don't think anyone truly expected the latest flood defences to be breached! It's not 2005 but it's horrible. One work colleague has been caught out, gutted, she'd just moved in and had just bought a load of furniture, imagine there's a huge number of people in the same circumstances 🙁
Awful. Stay safe!
A591 at south end of Thirlmere (just by Wythburn) has collapsed so there'll be no road from Keswick to Grasmere for a long time.
I saw the picture of the bridge this morning. 🙁
Phoned my former boss in Lancaster, he's had no power since 10pm last night although his more pressing concern seemed to be dealing with his 14-year-old son who was struggling to adapt to a life without wifi!
Managed to get into Ambleside to work today, shop is flooded but everyone ok.
Road in from windermere is passable but still flooded in places.
Absolutely gutted to see the Portinscale bridge gone, that was part of my commute for a few years... 🙁
Be careful out there.
Managed to get into Ambleside to work today, shop is flooded but everyone ok.
What's the Clappersgate / Skelwith Bridge road like? And the little lane (Under Loughrigg) up the back of the River Rothay?
Hope you get the shop sorted soon, good luck with it.
Carlisle floods.
Pooley bridge has collapsed according to photos on Twitter.
Dunmail Raise - our main route south. Crappers.
Going to be a huge amount of traffic disruption and diversions for months. Pooley Bridge at north end of Ullswater has collapsed. A591 at both Thirlmere and Bassenthwaite has collapsed. The road down the side of Ullswater at Glenridding is very severely buckled.
the current government will spend lots of money to remedy the situation and do something to help the peoples and tradesmen who are going to fix everything, just like they bailed out the bankers and are sending planes to bomb syria.Money no object.
Gutted about Portinscale bridge. I doubt it'll be replaced.
Like the bridge over the quay in Workington:-(
My brother stayed dry,but several of his in laws are flooded. Buggery.
Gutted about Portinscale bridge. I doubt it'll be replaced.
Hang on, has that gone too? Portinscale Bridge is the one at the north end of Derwent Water, the little cycle/foot bridge [url= http://streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=325382&y=523797&z=110&sv=325382,523797&st=4&ar=y&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf&dn=517&ax=325382&ay=523797&lm=0 ]here[/url]
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The bridge a few pictures back is this one:
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which is on the Keswick - Threlkeld old railway path east of Keswick. Crosses the Glenderamackin River.
Sorry ,misread thread.
very tired but very fortunate, most of our neighbours are flooded in the middle of the penrith, appleby, shap triangle. It was much worse than 2005. thankfully our village is high so the water moves on. i owe a big debt to the man across the road who was able to get sandbags over to us on his tractor . daughter had great fun.
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photo's aren't working 🙁
Just seen a pic of the Pooley Bridge missing the start of the bridge. 😯
photo's aren't working
You've linked to a direct page on a private Flickr account that's why.
Make the photos public then select the "share photo" option to get the actual picture info rather than the page url.
Blimey! I know everyone from Cumbria is hard as nails but that looks dreadful, stay safe guys.
Just asking questions about developments inc chanelling/ducting of rivers through towns both locally and further downstream ? There is far more to this imo than current very heavy rainfall and farming subsidies. It wouldn't seem approporate chaps to post jolly pictures of my last trip up in Sep 2012, not been back since as my knee wasn't strong enough for the sustained climbs on foot and/or by bike so spent the holiday tokens on a 3 week trip to Chamonix and Verbier where the lifts can do the climbing and even then couodn't manage that much.
Best of luck to all those affected, flooding is a nightmare
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That one is still standing! (it took em long enough to rebuild it last time, so I guess they did a good job)
Almost everything else is underwater. White Water hotel and the Swan; an massive torrent just raging through there earlier. Lakeside hotel had a what looked like a Windermere Lakes cruiser in the middle of the car park 😯
Madness; seems much worse than the 2009 floods
Drove west over the A66 before heading north up the M6, it's just mind blowing the levels of water at the moment. We actually got stuck in borrowdale a couple of weeks ago and afterwards thought, yeah, that's the usual flooding problems done for a while now... Crazy to see the old railway bridge go. Thoughts with everyone affected.
I took a ride out today from Cockermouth to Keswick to see how bad things are.
The A66 is closed due to Bassenthwait lake flooding onto the road, but Keswick is is very bad. Also Braithwait at the bottom of Whinlatter pass has had the road washed out.
Anyone thinking of driving up from that side to Whinlatter forget it!
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One of the main bridges into Carlisle centre, always amazes me it's not damaged when there's flooding. Water pressure must be off the scale.
One of the main bridges into Carlisle centre, always amazes me it's not damaged when there's flooding. Water pressure must be off the scale.
Related: both bridges in Lancaster are currently closed due to water damage, there's no vehicle access from Lancaster city to Morecambe and J34 to the M6 is closed too.
One of the other major routes into town is also closed, they're saying the bridge has been damaged. Think it spent all of last night under water too.
Just seen a list of all bridges damaged/destroyed in Cumbria and it's pretty grim!
one of the local councilors just said on tv a bridge was taken out by a floating mobile home coming at speed down the river.
Watching the news earlier, my heart goes out to all those affected, the amount of water falling is a record, apparently, just unbelievable.
Saw a couple of people being interviewed, one chap very angry, demanding questions be asked about the inadequate flood defences, while a lady was more fatalistic, pointing out that without them, there would be even worse flooding, and where do you stop building the walls ever higher?
14" of rain in 24 hours! 😯
The scale of the damage is mind blowing. Pooley Bridge may have to be renamed just Pooley. It would be nice to think that Westminster might actually put their hands in their pockets and do something to help the many families and businesses that have been well and truly done over this time round. Given that they managed to find nearly £15 Billion for crossrail in London and appear to have no shortage of ordnance to drop in the Middle East, surely helping everyone in Cumbria isn't too much to ask, is it? Or does the north get treated differently from the Deep South? 🙄
55,000 without electric, and another 60,000 almost without power if the water gets into another sub station, one large resevoir polluted and a water treatment works now flooded and not working. Hundreds of people without homes to stay in, its going to be a long hard push to get back to normal.
Here's one from our ride earlier today,this is AFTER the waters peaked & were dropping,yet look how high the water level is on the bridge...
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Sanny +1
Actually, making me want to head down for a ride, unusually I've not been down since spring.
Best of luck folks.
Bustaspoke - is that the road after Loughrigg Terrace?
Or does the north get treated differently from the Deep South?
My guess would be if they have Tory MPs, they'll get a bail out, if it's Labour they'll just be left to rot.
The recovery from this is going to be tough.
Once the roads are clear, if you get the chance to visit the Lakes to support local businesses, please do!
My thought are with everybody not in their homes tonight.
A few years ago during the previous floods (2009?) the army built a temporary bridge over the river at Cockermouth. Can see them being called in again for more of the same.
Mate living in Borrowdale has been out on his padle boards - beautiful weather today....
The temporary bridge was at Workington. Tesco also built a temporary supermarket (!). Hopefully the Derwent Bridges will all be ok this time.
Local MP (Sue Hayman, lab) has been in Cockermouth today with Floods Minister (also MP for Penrith) according to her facebook page.
MartinHutch,Yes, it was impassable by cars earlier today as were a lot of other routes when we headed for home..