Poxy Weather

[V8Druid]

Just another day of the usual. Hi honestly can't remember a December/January where we have had such relentless s**t

@Furniss looks like your getting good dollop too?

absolutely throwing it down here after a relatively dry-ish day

 

[V8Druid]

absolutely throwing it down here after a relatively dry-ish day

and it is still pissing down ...... has been some sort of night absolutely lashing on the velux all night.
just looking to see if the road into town is open, as it floods at the drop of a hat and have to take the girls to school on Tuesday mornings

 

[Lancs Lad]

Damn. Spoke to soon.
What a morning. Sideways torrent at 3c. Lovely

 

[Routy56]

Yep Storm Chandra arrived here overnight. Rain lashing down with strong SE winds.
Pumps were set yesterday to pump out the low spots including my workshop pit
Our stupid neighbour has 3 of his 10 overgrown/unmaintained poplar trees remaining.
I'll check on this later hoping they don't come down towards our place

 

[V8Druid]

Yep Storm Chandra arrived here overnight. Rain lashing down with strong SE winds.
Pumps were set yesterday to pump out the low spots including my workshop pit
Our stupid neighbour has 3 of his 10 overgrown/unmaintained poplar trees remaining.
I'll check on this later hoping they don't come down towards our place

all I can say is ...
thank f*** it wasn't white shite (as was forecast last week) --
have had some sort of rain here since about six yesterday evening .... roads're in a hell of a mess ... bottom of our lane is a river, just about passable - just, slowly. main A465 is impassable in several stretches and had to crawl through one lake to get to town - Clara's school down the village is closed as you can't get to it ('cept by boat/tractor) ... would've been nice if they'd said so, 'fore we went to town to get her at half seven
at least the day's forecast deluge is now only light rain - must've had most of it last night

I emptied this 4 days ago after the previous pic of it 70% full ... anyone making book on a hose pipe ban by July?

 

[hiluxman]

Was thinking about collecting my new dumper today....I don't even fancy the drive nor the thought of been out getting wet loading it up and strapping it down.

Paperwork and play with dogs day instead I think.

 

[William127]

Decent day yesterday, on a job near Cirencester, cold but clear- thankfully as we were walking back and forth on the same strip of mud all day.
Today though

 

[William127]

Was thinking about collecting my new dumper today....I don't even fancy the drive nor the thought of been out getting wet loading it up and strapping it down.

Paperwork and play with dogs day instead I think.

I'm waiting for a starter motor being fitted on my new to me dumper. Should be done today but not sure I can be bothered to collect it either

 

[Routy56]

all I can say is ...
thank f*** it wasn't white shite (as was forecast last week) --
have had some sort of rain here since about six yesterday evening .... roads're in a hell of a mess ... bottom of our lane is a river, just about passable - just, slowly. main A465 is impassable in several stretches and had to crawl through one lake to get to town - Clara's school down the village is closed as you can't get to it ('cept by boat/tractor) ... would've been nice if they'd said so, 'fore we went to town to get her at half seven
at least the day's forecast deluge is now only light rain - must've had most of it last night

I emptied this 4 days ago after the previous pic of it 70% full ... anyone making book on a hose pipe ban by July?
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Yes but don't you need loads of rain so that the grass grows well for all your sheep

 

[Storrsy]

100mm of rain recorded here last night. Supposedly highest in the country- certainly felt like it.

 

[V8Druid]

the local van trap

posty's day off today apparently or the knob'd be in there - AGAIN

the hollow under the bridge has no where to drain to, being the lowest point around there.
there's a CC tin tent park, the other side of that hill, with an equal amount of wet stuff, which last time ripped up all their lovely tar mac roads and hard stands .. good job they hadn't sorted it

Main A465 at Llangua .. on the Wales/Herefordshire border ... lost all the bridge parapet with the last deluge/floods and in process of replacing it ... start again !!

several other locations between here and Hereford're impassable on a MAIN trunk road FFS
basically all the usual places and a few new ones .... has been some bit wet here last night

 

[V8Druid]

Yes but don't you need loads of rain so that the grass grows well for all your sheep

didn't do one of 'em much good last night - dead as .. in a field on the side of the drive this morning - think it drowned

 

[Routy56]

the local van trap
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posty's day off today apparently or the knob'd be in there - AGAIN
View attachment 79267
the hollow under the bridge has no where to drain to, being the lowest point around there.
there's a CC tin tent park, the other side of that hill, with an equal amount of wet stuff, which last time ripped up all their lovely tar mac roads and hard stands .. good job they hadn't sorted it

Main A465 at Llangua .. on the Wales/Herefordshire border ... lost all the bridge parapet with the last deluge/floods and in process of replacing it ... start again !!
View attachment 79268
several other locations between here and Hereford're impassable on a MAIN trunk road FFS
basically all the usual places and a few new ones .... has been some bit wet here last night

Go on get out there and get some videos of flood v car fails
Usually the knobs with expensive German cars that one unstuck.
Don't you love the sound of hydraulic lock and broken conrods

 

[Routy56]

didn't do one of 'em much good last night - dead as .. in a field on the side of the drive this morning - think it drowned

Was that our original "Houdini"

 

[V8Druid]

Was that our original "Houdini"

hell no .... she's probably been consumed years ago

 

[6feetdown]

Weather not been the best here yet but hey who's worrying

 

[Brendan]

What are people doing in regards to wet sticky topsoil, better to try and spread it out and hope it dries out?

 

[Smiffy]

What are people doing in regards to wet sticky topsoil, better to try and spread it out and hope it dries out?

Depending on the exact topsoil and location sometimes using the back of a rake bucket can get it good enough to leave without having to return.

 

[Brendan]

Depending on the exact topsoil and location sometimes using the back of a rake bucket can get it good enough to leave without having to return.

Unfortunately it's a boggy sticky mess, I roughed it out with the toothed bucket but can't track in it or even walk over it in places

 

[Storrsy]

Getting ridiculous now. We get approx 2000mm of rain a year annually here. And we've had a quarter of that in January alone so far !! That's almost as much as some parts of the country get all year!