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[2slo]

Compared to what I've seen on the news, we have so far got off lightly with only minor flooding in our village. I got up this morning to hear fast flowing water. The brook at the bottom of our garden which is normally a trickle of water 18 inches across and 6 inches deep had become a river 12 feet across and 4 feet deep! I just have to hope it stops raining otherwise we are going to have problems. I hope none of you have been too badly affected. Do share your photographs.

Edited by 2slo on Tuesday 25th September 12:10

[anonymous-user]

I'll be honest, now that the summer (??) has been and gone, I'm desperate for the snow to arrive!

[Blukoo]

Not my picture, but this is how a little part of Aberdeen next to the harbour looks...







Absolutely covered in foam/froth from the sea.

(apologies if you can't see the image, it's taken directly from Facebook)

Edit: Here's a video from STV http://local.stv.tv/aberdeen/news/191791-stormy-sc...

Edited by Blukoo on Tuesday 25th September 12:52

A couple of pics from Stonehaven Harbour...

Edited by Blukoo on Tuesday 25th September 13:24

Edited by Blukoo on Tuesday 25th September 13:28

[Jetl3on]

Kerrrrriiissssst! How on earth do you sleep at all, not knowing what you will wake up to
Insurance premiums must be a bugger, I take it there is nothing much can be done to minimise the damage?

[2slo]

Jetl3on said:

Insurance premiums must be a bugger, I take it there is nothing much can be done to minimise the damage?

A lot of home insurers are now asking specific questions about your home location and it's proximity to water. Even if you're not flooded you end up paying in other ways

[Blukoo]

I'm glad I live well above sea level and not near any rivers

[GetCarter]

I used to live on a flood plain near Shipston on Stour and it was always a bit of a nightmare. We had water to with 2 mm of the back door of our house (usually 2 metres below).

I now live less than 10 metres from the sea, but 10 metres above it (if you see what I mean), so, Tsunamis aside, I should be ok.

[Blukoo]

http://local.stv.tv/stonehaven/news/191795-stoneha...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BajCLBx_-Vc&fea...

[2slo]

As if the amount of rain isn't making conditions bad enough, the local highways people have decided to resurface the main road through our village today meaning no where to park to collect kids from school and a three handed set of mobile traffic lights to go with it. Their road works resemble a moat! WTF are they thinking of?

[LongQ]

2slo said:

As if the amount of rain isn't making conditions bad enough, the local highways people have decided to resurface the main road through our village today meaning no where to park to collect kids from school and a three handed set of mobile traffic lights to go with it. Their road works resemble a moat! WTF are they thinking of?

Schedules, targets, ticking boxes and spending the budget to make sure it's not reduced for next year.

Conditions look nasty chaps. It's been grey and wet here for most of the last 48hrs or thereabouts but we are well above the nearest water level so the only concern would be extreme rain and blocked drains - which if course might happen. In fact I could just imagine the insurers paying people to go around blocking drains on a one off basis in order to justify hiking premiums for the foreseeable future when a small "flooding" of a single property means the entire post code area becomes a flood risk.