We are ok here in our litle part of Angus, although the town of Arbroath was completely cut off at one point last evening, including by rail.
A friend of ours had a narrow escape on a flooded road. She was driving in the dark and saw water across the road. Thinking she would get through, she drove on carefully, but suddenly spotted the roof of another car which had been abandoned. As she tried to reverse out, the car stalled and very quickly began to fill with water. The front end dropped suddenly and, as she started to scramble over the seats into the boot area (an estate car), the car began to float round in a circle, completely confusing my friend.
She managed to open the back door and scramble get out. The water was up to her waist, and she's six feet two. She climbed onto the roof of the other car, which was more stable than her own, as hers floated off into the night. Luckily a local farmer had been nearby checking stock and saw her plight. He waded into the water and helped my friend to dry ground.
I went over there this morning, and there were four cars which had all been partly or fully submerged. I imagine they will all be written off.
Our horses are all ok this morning. Their fields can't flood, but we had water across our track to within twenty feet of our cottage, and about four feet deep. The burn down the den is swollen to the point that it can't get through a pipe which is five feet in diameter, and the backlog has caused lots of flooding upstream.
A two acre irrigation dam, which was half full two days ago, has filled to overflowing, and the water is eroding the dam face for the second time this year. No-one can get near the outflow valve to open it.
We usually have the horses down there at this time of year, but kept them up the top because we have a new foal at the house which needs to see the others.
Amazingly, much of the water has drained away from our immediate vicinity this morning, although I saw some bad flooding in the town when I was there earlier. Unfortunately, some houses were flooded in the town.