Poxy Weather

[Shovelhands]

Started off the day almost stuck, went down a farm track that got very soft very quickly! Due to rain yesterday or overnight I imagine. Thought the job was going to be a disaster, but made it work and it dried a bit while I was there, which helped matters! Left there at 12 ish, got up the road 2 mins away and torrential rain, floods everywhere! I dodged a bullet! Got to next job, about half hour away, and it was just as dry and dusty as it was when I was there Monday! Incredible! And I drove through a thunderstorm to get there on Monday too! What a contrast in one day!

 

[V8Druid]

Have to say I'm surprised...had a drop on Sunday .nowt since... Still green as anything tho so no complaints. Could just do with a nights worth to set the grass off for 4th cut tho..

we've had rain on/off since Sunday, but now't on the BIL's scale

 

[V8Druid]

Started off the day almost stuck, went down a farm track that got very soft very quickly! Due to rain yesterday or overnight I imagine. Thought the job was going to be a disaster, but made it work and it dried a bit while I was there, which helped matters! Left there at 12 ish, got up the road 2 mins away and torrential rain, floods everywhere! I dodged a bullet! Got to next job, about half hour away, and it was just as dry and dusty as it was when I was there Monday! Incredible! And I drove through a thunderstorm to get there on Monday too! What a contrast in one day! View attachment 38482

yeh BIL said it was a massive thunderstorm that hung over them for the best part of an hour ..... water was running down the roads ... drains couldn't cope.
we must've been on the edge of it ... had it rumbling around for a good hour or more but not the rain like they did

 

[Giles]

Monumental downpour last night burst the man hole lids off bottom of the hills and where it couldn’t do that lifted the road. I got drenched just running from car to house

Site was a mess this morning dusty dry desert turned to claggy sticky slippy sh1te

 

[Lancs Lad]

Monumental downpour last night burst the man hole lids off bottom of the hills and where it couldn’t do that lifted the road. I got drenched just running from car to house

Site was a mess this morning dusty dry desert turned to claggy sticky slippy sh1te

Keep it down there....well no doubt get ours mid winter when it's 2c

 

[LKSF]

Keep it down there....well no doubt get ours mid winter when it's 2c

Showers due tomorrow afternoon so be prepared, nothing heavy.
It has been continually dry up here though, I've been taking pics of the reservoirs everytime I pass from one month to the next thinking they won't go any lower, but they always do. Haven't been that way for two months since these were taken so these are a bit old, but you can see one of the outlets above the water line with the lid open:

 

[Lancs Lad]

Showers due tomorrow afternoon so be prepared, nothing heavy.
It has been continually dry up here though, I've been taking pics of the reservoirs everytime I pass from one month to the next thinking they won't go any lower, but they always do. Haven't been that way for two months since these were taken so these are a bit old, but you can see one of the outlets above the water line with the lid open:

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It's a dry summer but not that dry...when I was a lad ...

 

[LKSF]

It's a dry summer but not that dry...when I was a lad ...

Whether it's drier than '76 remains to be seen as it's far from over.

I was looking at the borehole, well and spring map of the UK and noticed the house above us is fed by a well. In 1978 a borehole was drilled so i'm guessing they had a problem with it running dry in '76. It was a waste of money as they found no water, but have now got a shed full of Braithwaite tanks for storage. Braithwaites are still going and in Gwent.

 

[V8Druid]

It's a dry summer but not that dry...when I was a lad ...

Whether it's drier than '76 remains to be seen as it's far from over.

I was looking at the borehole, well and spring map of the UK and noticed the house above us is fed by a well. In 1978 a borehole was drilled so i'm guessing they had a problem with it running dry in '76. It was a waste of money as they found no water, but have now got a shed full of Braithwaite tanks for storage. Braithwaites are still going and in Gwent.

IIRC '83 was quite a summer too or might've been '84 ..... got paper pix somewhere of some VERY dry / empty reservoirs round here - Elan and Lyn Brianne from back then ..... features showing that hadn't been seen since flooded.

what REALLY needs doing is to stop the water co.s from handing out enormous divi.s and compel them to spend the profits on repairing ALL their leaks, that lose more than is delivered plus upgrading their capacities to cope with/cater for, the doom and gloom predictions of the bloody greenies.
the leaks are the reason we're in this predicament in the first place

 

[Furniss]

BIL doing his bathroom ATM .... put the old bath outside and had a down pour for an hour Monday evening ... 90+mm of rain in said bath after the deluge .... major flooding in his area in the aftermath.

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At least he did his bit..... he can take plug out when the flooding has receded

 

[hiluxman]

River at the side of the yard rose 1.1m in 2 hours on tuesday

 

[6feetdown]

IIRC '83 was quite a summer too or might've been '84 ..... got paper pix somewhere of some VERY dry / empty reservoirs round here - Elan and Lyn Brianne from back then ..... features showing that hadn't been seen since flooded.

what REALLY needs doing is to stop the water co.s from handing out enormous divi.s and compel them to spend the profits on repairing ALL their leaks, that lose more than is delivered plus upgrading their capacities to cope with/cater for, the doom and gloom predictions of the bloody greenies.
the leaks are the reason we're in this predicament in the first place

Not for profit like Welsh water is great apart from the fact to many meaningless jobs and big dividend to top brass, all money should go back into it.
Same as new houses water harvesting could be made compulsory for flushing toilets etc, wouldn't add a huge amount to the cost either

 

[V8Druid]

Not for profit like Welsh water is great apart from the fact too many meaningless jobs and big dividend to top brass, all money should go back into it.
Same as new houses water harvesting could be made compulsory for flushing toilets etc, wouldn't add a huge amount to the cost either

yeh, but it's not 'not for profit' is it ...
or they wouldn't be able to shell out the divi.s and carry the dead wood ...
spend it on what it should be spent on ..
maintenance and improvements

 

[Smiffy]

yeh, but it's not 'not for profit' is it ...
or they wouldn't be able to shell out the divi.s and carry the dead wood ...
spend it on what it should be spent on ..
maintenance and improvements

It doesn't matter whether it's nationalised or private. There will be a lack of maintenance and improvements. And loads of pointless jobs. And it won't remedy the fact they are short staffed on the ground. They can have all the money in the world to spend on maintenance and improvements but if noones prepared to do the work it won't get done. As with most things we need to start right back at the beginning and teach people it isn't that bad to get muddy for work. Have proper apprenticeship programs. And carry on with the training and education so that people can work there way up the ranks and then the management will understand the problems and how to fix them rather than blindly guessing which seems to be the current situation.

 

[V8Druid]

let me tell you a story about DC/WW - the so called not for profit 'angels.
when I was selling my yard, I had a 1200mm sewer right through the centre of it ... only piece of property, in private ownership, like it in the town.
Made a hell of a difference to the site's value.

DC/WW wanted £450,000 PLUS 10% management fee to re-route it around the edge of the site, whilst still leaving a 20ft reservation either side.
I got a quote for the same works, from the civils contractor that did/does/would have done the work ... Knew him well and was a good customer of mine. His quote was £128,000 .. the same as he had given DC/WW .

DC/WW would not allow anyone other than themselves to carry out the work .... they cost me nigh on half a mil. on the sale value of my property.
if that's not profiteering I don't know WTF is.

I have ZERO time for all their bullsh1t.

 

[6feetdown]

It doesn't matter whether it's nationalised or private. There will be a lack of maintenance and improvements. And loads of pointless jobs. And it won't remedy the fact they are short staffed on the ground. They can have all the money in the world to spend on maintenance and improvements but if noones prepared to do the work it won't get done. As with most things we need to start right back at the beginning and teach people it isn't that bad to get muddy for work. Have proper apprenticeship programs. And carry on with the training and education so that people can work there way up the ranks and then the management will understand the problems and how to fix them rather than blindly guessing which seems to be the current situation.

Said the same in work today

 

[6feetdown]

let me tell you a story about DC/WW - the so called not for profit 'angels.
when I was selling my yard, I had a 1200mm sewer right through the centre of it ... only piece of property, in private ownership, like it in the town.
Made a hell of a difference to the site's value.

DC/WW wanted £450,000 PLUS 10% management fee to re-route it around the edge of the site, whilst still leaving a 20ft reservation either side.
I got a quote for the same works, from the civils contractor that did/does/would have done the work ... Knew him well and was a good customer of mine. His quote was £128,000 .. the same as he had given DC/WW .

DC/WW would not allow anyone other than themselves to carry out the work .... they cost me nigh on half a mil. on the sale value of my property.
if that's not profiteering I don't know WTF is.

I have ZERO time for all their bullsh1t.

Yeah we had a run in on the job we are on now with some dick who had no idea what he was on about

 

[V8Druid]

assume it's pissing down 'round the country, with so many people on line ATM ...... wet overnight, but dry - just, here ......... was a glorious autumn day yesterday

 

[Lancs Lad]

Nope 3 solid dry days so far windyish but mild as ...3 cheers for global warming

 

[Giles]

Dry here as well