[Closed] Stormy near Keswick.....

Don't forget Carlisle - it'll be first in line I'd say.

Given we got a months worth of rain in 24hrs I think the defences have done a great job.

The foods would of hit harder and faster if it wasn't for the defences. Apparently a newsagents on Cockermouth Main Street is ordering news papers for tomorrow, which has got to be a good sign.

Nobeerinthefridge

I was meant to be driving down yesterday for the week! 😯 Hope the guys at Biketreks and KMB are ok.

I was on UK fatbikes facebook page earlier. Thirlmere is impassable due to big landslides.

I just saw the Environment Minister on the telly who was conspicously avoiding answering the question of what action will be taken and when. Obviously no votes in it for him! 👿

I am gutted for everyone down there. As doom mountain says, the local shops and businesses really need our support now. So much of the area is dependent on tourism that it will be a really tough Christmas and New Year for an awful lot of folk especially if they can't open.

Sanny

Sanny, go check out KMB's FB page, they've had a load of help and grafted like **** today and will be open tomorrow!!!

Pooley Bridge may have to be renamed just Pooley.

Or Poorly Bridge.

It's pretty nuts though, to see damage like that. It must bend the minds of the locals who take these things for granted, stuff that's always been there. Fundamental infrastructure. Gone overnight.

Sanny the video below shows the damage to the Keswick to Grasmere (Dunmail Raise) road:
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KMB had about 2ft of water and have been clearing out today.

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

Awful day for cumbria I am in Carlisle just off warwick road missed being flooded by about 60 metres so lucky have no power but nothing compared to the devestation around the city
Feel for all you that have lost there homes today stay strong

Rudds - has the water subsided yet from Warwick Rd and Hardwick Circus? Looked terrible yesterday so not looking forward to going into the city for work tomorrow as awful to see the damage caused last time.

Daughter is in Carlisle, just out of flood area (North)but isolated from city centre and work at opposite end(South) No power till 10am and been informed it is likely to go off tonight again. As a teacher she "needs" to get to work in the morning, her partners work was flooded and will be working from home if access to servers can be gained...

Jambalaya - and you think those boroughs could do it alone without the rest of the country? It may sound basic, but the country/nation/state works as one. Those individuals/areas that get rich can't then decide that it's time to stand clear of the rest. Heard of the Welfare State, National Health Service?
Those boroughs pay via the same tax systems as the rest of us. I bet they have better NHS facilities/access, better transport etc. So, as individuals they pay the same and arguably get better.

Trekster - most schools closed tomorrow. If not, the new bypass will get her to Dalston end of town from the north.

Kind of puts erosion to paths from mountain biking into perspective doesn't it! 😛 :sorry:

As soon as roads are open I will try and get up there biking as much as possible and support the local economy. Going to be a lot of businesses hit really hard by this, some probably won't recover. 🙁

Hardwick circus still under water, just walked down and had a look. For those that know it I didn't get past the most extreme edge of Wickes. I'm unsure about Warwick Road, it's still all closed off from around Richard Rose area, generators are running by the sounds of it and there's flood lights up. I didn't want to walk down further in case I pissed anyone off.

4 Play Cycles just missed it and I hope KMB get sorted out quickly. We flooded in 2009 and it really is shit, we were closed for a long time.

Greystone road still flooded upto jesmond st (irvings coach depot), was upto Norman st this morning.
Trying to get to my parents house in Brunton crescent, they're being stubborn and not shifting from upstairs.
Not heard from them since 10.30 yesterday morning so getting a bit worried now.
Penrith MRT organiser didn't want to send his guys back to check they were OK despite them finding out my mothers on so much medication that she'd give lance a good run for his money. They all packed up and went to the Lint.
Apparently my dad took the dog for a walk on the flat roofed garage! 🙄

Monkeyfudger - cheers. Knew people last time who took 12mths to get back in. Nightmare for them.

Sounds very stressful flatfish. Let us know how your parents are when you hear from them. I have a mate with a canoe if you need....

Good news about 4 Play mrV. Hoping the main St isn't devastated this time.

Main street is under water dude. It's receding very slowly, water came up to us. The shop was surrounded by water for a while, looked like we had a moat.

boxelder - Member
Mate living in Borrowdale has been out on his padle boards - beautiful weather today....

Fantastic video, presume they're his kids? What a great Dad!

Thoughts going out to all you guys and your families.

Well all of my crowd seem to be ok. A couple of people flooded out on Petteril Street, some hastily dug drainage ditches around Mungrisedale and some very nervous people in Armathwaite but that's it.

jambalaya - Member
This amount of flooding/rainfall is not that unusual

Can this be post of the year?

Cumbria Council have just tweeted this:
Victoria bridge now OPEN in #Kendal. Romney Bridge also OPEN. Netherr, Miller & Stramondgate remain CLOSED. #cumbriafloods

Although someone else in Kendal I follow on Twitter was saying "don't bother coming to Kendal, it's difficult to get in and even more difficult to get around".

I saw the pictures from Keswick MTB on Facebook, looks like Amos and crew did an amazing job.

Been keeping an eye on the floods. We are moving up to Cumbria in April next year. Most of the houses we are looking at are around Wigton and Cockermouth (for the schools). We are up in January to look at some properties.. 😕
Got lots of friends in the areas effected, it truly is crap.

Umm.. has anyone heard from Junkyard since he said:

My bike has just had to be rescued from the cellar due to the flood a few feet and rising.

Hope you are okay fella.

Edit: he's alive! Just showed up on [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bloody-hell-liverpool/page/27#post-7355658 ]the Liverpool thread[/url].

He's probably thrown an immersion element in there, emptied the cupboard of beans and got himself an indoor jacuzzi.

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Hang on, has that gone too? Portinscale Bridge is the one at the north end of Derwent Water, the little cycle/foot bridge here

Reports of the demise of the footbridge are a little hasty - still there and awaiting inspection. The Portinscale bridge reported closed was the A66 road bridge, but it's fine.

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He is considering a swimming pool tax

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Hi All
We stayed at Bridge cottage off Forge road this August beautiful spot but right on the river,lower floor was only couple of feet above the river level then. Hope those ancient bridges which cross the river survive.

Saddened to see the old railway bridge in the previous posts,

Hope all are safe

It really is staggering seeing stuff thats been familiar since I was a kid now gone. People are looking at another long haul to get back to normality 😥

smartay - Member

Hi All
We stayed at Bridge cottage off Forge road this August beautiful spot but right on the river, hope those ancient bridges which cross the river survive. Saddened to see the old railway bridge in the previous posts,

The upper stream side of the forge bridge has collapsed but I recall it did that at some time in the 80's as I remember having a look at it on BMX's so hopefully it can be fixed.

Hope those ancient bridges which cross the river survive.

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Our Kendal yard was under 5ft of water yesterday - loads of houses nearby as well. Grimness.

Staggering, leaning against the now missing wall having a drink back in the summer.
How did the houses around, it fare.
There was a caravan site just up from us Brandlehow? that must of been washed away

There was a caravan site just up from us Brandlehow? that must of been washed away

Wasn't one of the bridges destroyed by a mobile home floating down the river and smacking into it? That may have been Brandlehow, I saw a picture of a site which had lost 9 static homes, 2 of them into the river, the others just smashed up by the water but not actually carried off downstream.

Wasn't one of the bridges destroyed by a mobile home floating down the river and smacking into it?

Someone on Facebook said something along the lines of: "Yeah, sorry, I think that was one of ours. We've lost a few. Can we have it back please?" 😆

There was a caravan site just up from us Brandlehow? that must of been washed away

I do hope they had insurance, otherwise they've literally lost everything....

Has anyone in government noticed this yet? its clearly not as important as bombing some brown people. Maybe if a wheelie bin had been submerged in the Thames Valley.....

Dave's on his way (swoon) pretty soon he'll be announcing the value of the budget that the EA already have and committing to not immediately forgetting where he has just been - after all he gets his sausages from Borough Market and they come from that northy place he's just forgotten the name of and for the SE to be without totally traceable organic saltmarsh lamb would be worse than a suicide bomber in the elderflower presse factory

He'll turn up and blame the EA for spending less on flood barriers when they could have saved a few billion through efficiency savings. The EA will then politely point out he halved their budget....

Has anyone in government noticed this yet? its clearly not as important as bombing some brown people. Maybe if a wheelie bin had been submerged in the Thames Valley.....

It's a bit much to make it a North vs South thing. It certainly seems to have had a lot more attention than 2005 when we were sat in the middle of one of britain's largest peacetime evacuations not making it to the top of the radio news*.

*Not sure about tv, we didn't get power back for 8 days.

Not sure where this is but not what you expect a high street to look like;

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Lemonysam - with regard to the TV news this time, including the BBC, so not just comedy tabloid ITV news.... Some mental bloke stabbing someone in a tube station was the first item on. The fact that increasingly large chunks of Northern England was disappearing underwater at the same time was deemed secondary to that.

Make of that what you will

binners - Member

Has anyone in government noticed this yet? its clearly not as important as bombing some brown people. Maybe if a wheelie bin had been submerged in the Thames Valley.....

Sadly it's not quite that simple... in the Thames Valley a couple of years back now we had mass flooding too.. we lost several house sales because of it... You can't just make the water go away no matter how many resources you throw at it.

We had dozens of fire service crews etc, we had pumps working 24x7 for a week pumping it away.. more by luck that anything we stopped our house being flooded.