[Closed] york flooded?

It was in the news yesterday but could well be clear by Saturday.

I'd give the town hall a call and ask them.

Town centre is fine. (Always is really)

Only a few streets down to the river ever flood.

Quite a good spectacle when the water is up to be honest.

Traffic is shocking at the moment though !!

Web Cam [url= http://www.farsondigitalwatercams.com/live-webcams/north/Ouse/York/ ]Here[/url]

I'm not there at the moment, but looks pretty well flooded. Used to live near York and the centre is usually still ok even in flood - it can just be a pain parking / getting about etc... It will also depend where you were planning to stay.

Hopefully someone local will come along with some proper info...

EDIT - Beaten by Neal!

If you go to the web cam we'd jump off that bridge in the summer, not in flood mind; you'd probably get pulled up for that sort of thing nowadays 😥

A friend of mine nearly died after contracting Leptospirosis from jumping off that bridge into the Ouse.

Last day of school celebration turned a bit sour 🙁

York is full of Flood gates, they let part of the city flood, to save the rest, cuty centre will be fine and as above, when the river's up its quite a site. Is going to peak tonight, takes a day for our water to get there and we peaked this time yesterday.

We used to get really sick swimming by the iron bridge in Bishopthorpe, never clicked there was a sewage works 500m upstream 🙄

Try the Environment Agency web site. Good for nerds like me. Our house is close to the Viking Recorder and if we get 1 more meter of river rise tonight as is forecast it will be over the record.

[url= http://http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/120701.aspx?stationId=8208 ]Viking Recorder[/url]

It's also worth having a look at the York City Rowing Club site. They have a web cam looking at the river. You could watch a canal boat being tipped over by the flood yesterday.

The city centre will be fine though.

That link didin't seem to work. Try this:

[url= http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/homeandleisure/floods/riverlevels/120701.aspx?stationId=8208 ]Viking Recorder[/url]

[url= http://www.ycrc.co.uk/ ]Rowing Club[/url]

If you look at the current web cam view on the rowing club it just looks like a river. There should be visible footpaths on either side. Compare it with the stills of the boat capsizing, when it was already high, and you should get an idea.

arrrrgggghhh - Silly news people. BBC man standing in York "Its now starting to rain, that is the last thing thing this city needs". Rain in York won't make any difference. York is flooding because of the rain in Dales... 2 DAYS AGO... More rain here where I am, on Monday would mean trouble for York now. BBC - Drown your journalists. Also "this is the worst I've ever seen" coming from someone who has only lived in york 2 yrs, is not impressive, it not an important 1st person account, it is not context. There are marks on buildings from floods in the 1600s, that's historical context...

#and breath#

Remember it years ago, late 90's I think. People were jet biking on the racecourse.

We used to get really sick swimming by the iron bridge in Bishopthorpe, never clicked there was a sewage works 500m upstream

my neighbour had to get his stomach pumped after jumping off that bridge...

There are marks on buildings from floods in the 1600s, that's historical context...

To be fair anyone who has lived in York more than 12 Years could give Historical Context.

The floods in November 2000 were the worst since 1625.

I was living in the Town Centre at the time and it was incredible. Total chaos.

This is nothing compared to that, probably a full Metre less I would think.

(Having said that, I'm "flooded in" at home at the moment. The only road access to our house is flooded about 3' deep all the way across so can get out !)

I was working in York last winter overlooking the river and was initially alarmed by the floods until my colleagues just laughed and told me it happens all the time!

Enjoy the weekend in York, hopefully it will have stopped raining by then!

I see someone has ignored the rowing club's notice that the boat house is closed and can be seen at the moment on the web cam getting his boat out. Tut, tut.

Mind you, he'll be in Goole in about 15 minutes with no way of getting back.

😆

I see the Ouse is now above 5m against its usual flow below 2m.....and still rising.

And it seems that the Rowing Club were clearing the boats out of their boat house to save them from being damaged by the rising water. So I owe them an apology.

Still "flooded in" here.

Can't get vehicles out, and can't get out on foot without going through 3' of water for a couple of hundred yards.

Sky+ Planner full of stuff ive not had time to watch, the kettle is on, there is a cake in the oven, Happy days 😀