hebden bridge – wetter than an otter's pocket

anybody else get caught in the storm today? I’ve never seen rain like it.

fingers crossed you don’t flooded again chaps

Seems OK now. I’ve been out for the afternoon and missed it all!
A646 still closed at turning circle heading towards Tod.

we were holed up in a cafe in the centre as they were putting the sandbags out again.

Wettest I’ve ever been in my life. Most of the skin on my hands has rotted away, but at least I’ve got a nice clean bike and shoes 🙂

Hebden Bridge sure seems to attract the worst of the rain this year!

We got caught up in it. This is just before the sewerage works in between Hebden and Tod.

The amount of water coming off the hills was unreal.

Heres a couple of vids

There set to be viewed by everyone.

The first one contains some mild swearing

****! I was going to head over this way tomorrow and ride the Gorple Road route out and back from Tod. Is it worth it??

it’s been raining so much in Calderdale this summer I doubt another day has made it any much wetter…

not been the crazy flooding of recent yesterday but still bad again

KoB, good thing about all the rain is that it has literally washed virtually all the mud away.

I’m still game if you are 🙂
Tom

This is how well we did. Admittedly, we’re mincers, but we’re not normally this bad!!

The more they spend on flood defences the worse it seems to be. Could it be because they are confining the water instead of allowing it to spread out as it does on a natural flood plain?

Great vid, at least you didn’t need to wash your bikes!

good vid Pook. Our ride was just like that, all the trails were streams. Still good fun 🙂

East lancs is the same. The ground is completely saturated. As soon as the rain starts, it’s running straight off the hills. In torrents! We had floods again last week! 🙁

lol thats some water, where was the bit that looked like a stream pook?

which bit? it was all a stream!

the bit where I gave up is chipps’ birthday present apparently, coming down from stoodley pike way

Check this out:

The river that you see cascading down is actually our usual bridleway climb up to the tower. Just a tad damp last Tuesday evening. EEK!!!

did you ride it Binners?

@binners that’s what the A25 at Gomshall looked like a week before the Olympic road race went through.

@pook enjoyed the video, it all look relatively sensible till the cafe sequence …

yep – when she brought the sandbags out we started thinking the ride might be abandoned

Just watched the video… That does like quite wet. We rode Birthday X / Chipps’ Birthday a couple of weekends back in decent (dry) weather and its totalled now. The bit you didn’t film (presumably because its unrideable) between the tunnel and the trees had 5ft deep holes in it. This summer has been utterly crap…

Oh dear it looks like Hebden is on the verge of flooding again

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19710501