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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: Rosemary on June 09, 2012, 05:07:37 pm
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Terrible flood in Wales - are all you Welsh TASers safe and well?
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Good call Rosemary. I couldnt believe the pictures on the news today. I too hope that everyone is safe and well.
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Was just listening to that on the news on the way home from Dundee. Hope you're all OK?
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wishing all the best for you all. hope all are safe :bouquet:
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Glug glug glug glug !
Everything is fine here in my part !
The rivers are well up , but not flooding here .
2 days of non stop very heavy rain , and today wall to wall sunshine .
No tv and not heard mention of anything on radio . Not seen anyone for a few days either , so no news at all .
Apart from getting well and truly soaked umpteen times , all is fine here thanks everyone.
Hope all the others in Wales are also ok too !
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doesn't seem long that you were jumping in the river to get cool....... i think things are definitely trying to get you back in the rat race.......
glad you are ok ;D :thumbsup:
Mx
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Yes thats right M . Since cooling in the river we have had sleet and snow , freezing , and lots and lots of rain . Not forgetting the birds eating all my seedlings .
Going to struggle to get a proper veg crop in to last till next year , but i am like the ever ready bunny , i just keep on going , i will not give in !
I get knocked down , but i get up again , ain't nothing gona keep me down !
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Same as Rusty - what's been going on?
We are mid-Powys. The Severn looks high where we are but no actual flooding although train couldn't get through last night and we all had to turf out at Newtown and there's been alot of traffic along this way because it's all been diverted from somewhere.
Otherwise all OK.
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We have been a bit further up to mid Wales today to collect our Ryelands and most of the rivers have burst their banks.
A couple of the roads were badly flooded. OH sent me out to check how deep the water was before he went through with the trailer. It was then I found that my wellies leak :(
We had to turn back once when the road was impassible but like the pony express we got there in the end. ;D
Sally
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:D :D fighting spirit!!
Have just looked on the news. Cripes!!1 The weather here is lovely today although it has been VERY VERY wet.
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Just heard on the news , that people in Aberystwyth have been moved out due to heavy flooding . Aber is about 25 miles north of me .
The village near me has flooded in the past , but i live half way up a hill , so the water would have to be about 35' deep to get anywhere near me , lol .
Even if that did happen , i could still get to the land without hitting flood water , i would just need to turn left and go cross country , along the hills .
The land is about 150' higher than where i live here .
I have also made about a dozen or so timber boats , from 12'-26' , and the same in canoes , so if things get really bad , i can always do a Noah !
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Hi guys - we're on Pembs/Carms border and although its been pretty wet and very very windy here for a few days, we didn't get it as bad as further north. We have a lovly couple just arrived for their holiday in our little "Hideaway" and their journey is about 280 miles and it took them 12 hours !!!!!!! Poor things are shattered but delighted to arrive here in glorious sunshine and blue skies with the swallows darting around all over the place (and leaving a few pressies on their car already ::) ). Thanks for asking :thumbsup: .
KAZ - ARE YOU OK??? :fc: You're up near where the action is :o :o
Mx
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All ok here :) (in the hills north of carmarthen), though I was beginning to wonder if the rain would ever stop.
Thx
marcus
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Keeping fingers crossed that it'll get better now - and that those we've not heard from haven't drowned... :fc:
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Just on news , over 1000 people evacuated to higher ground , many airlifted .
Several villages under several feet of water !
Many people were moved/airlifted from caravan parks , that's a holiday they won't forget .
And there was me thinking at least with all this rain , i don't have to carry 20-30 buckets of water from the river to water the veg !
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Glad you lot on here are fine :thumbsup: hope others in the area are ok.
Things looked very rough on the news. Must have been bad for lifeboat rescuers to need airlifted :o
At least it looks like it's settled a bit now. Then there's the clearing up, poor souls it must be devastating.
It's been sunshine and heavy rain on and off all day here, looks set to continue through the night.
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Looks shocking, feel so sorry for all those caught in it.
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Enormous quantites of rain in the last three days - we are OK but we are on a hill so all the rain comes in one side and goes out the other taking all the soil with it ::)
Was supposed to go to Aberytwyth show today. They rang to cancel it yesterday afternoon as there was a foot of water in the sheep pens - I expect it was more like 3 or 4 feet this morning.
Anyone heard from Kaz? She is based around Aberystwyth
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Fortunately we are over 1,000 feet above sea level, but the land we rent lower down was flooded yesterday. good job we hadn't put any lambs down there. Stables flooded, horses stayed in yesterday and water running over the land, but we are okay thanks.
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Wow - I hope all you fellow TASers are ok down there ...
I used to take my children to Aberaeron caravan site when they were young - I just can't believe some of the pictures we're seeing on the TV :o
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We're O.k.. Had a bit of a battering yesterday. Went into Aber this evening and they have the main road closed into the town at the top coming in from Cardigan as it is all flooded down by Morrison's, and the camping site up the top looks as it is in trouble as they are right down by the river (entry is at top of the town road) It is causing chaos as it is affecting all major A roads.
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Glad to hear you're ok Kaz x
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Around Welshpool airport was flooded today. How terrible for the people who have been flooded.
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Had Bionic here today collecting her new babies. See her post.
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Thanks all .... dont need to water ::) but we are okay. There are benefits to being ..... in the hills!
Hope everyone lower down is okay.
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How's everyone in the Towy valley doing? The floods there have been so much more frequent over recent years too - Bl**dy Welsh Water & their "improvements" ::)
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Has anyone heard from deepinthewoods? .....who is on a fishing trip in Wales.
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Flood warnings out for Ironbridge near me, when all the excess water in Wales finds its way into the Severn and heads in this direction. Fortunately I am at the top of the gorge but the houses lower down will almost certainly be flooded and the road closed. Usually the flood barriers are out in good time but some will seep through.
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Thank you all for your concern. Some parts of Wales - particularly mid and parts of the north - have been really badly hit, as you will have seen on the news.
Friends of mine are counting the cost but are, thankfully, okay. Bizarrely, further down south, we've seen the best day for weeks! Lovely sunny, warm day at last, after so many days of struggling to do stuff in torrential rain. Moving a sore and injured sow, single-handed - during a storm and through a field where mud reached over the tops of the wellies - was not much fun yesterday!
Best wishes to all those still struggling with the weather, Hope it gets better soon for everyone xxx
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God - I'm so glad we are on higher ground
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some photos of the towey on friday
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Just glad you weren't in it :o