[Hazelwood Flock]

Well today has been a most incredible day weather wise - we have had 4 inches plus of rain in the last 24 hours here in West Dorset and it is still raining!
The results were a lot of water with nowhere to go!

Netherbury - only passable in 4x4s.
 

It was higher than this a bit before...the river is to the right of the railings, road to the left, honest!
 

Some of my lot, although stranded were on the higher ground, so I left them there.
 

I moved their troughs to them and shut them in, although they wouldn't cross the water as it was over wellie height.
 

Some more of my crew cut off by an overflowing culvert.
 

[deepinthewoods]

wow! great photos.

[Small Farmer]

Blimey!

[Fleecewife]

I feel you are the culprit in the eyes of that sheep which is always facing this way     There's something accusing in her look

[Mammyshaz]

Goodness, I hope the weather improves for you pretty quickly. 

[MAK]

That is a lot of rain - hope it has drained a bit. Good photos though. Hope things improve there as I suspect flooding means a lot of hard work and worry.
Martin

[Bionic]

Great photos and at least you are all safe.  Lets hope it improves for you today as it has here in Carmarthenshire. Currently its sunny and warm yeah......

[Rosemary]

Hope everyone is OK in thos awful weather

[feldar]

I know where your coming from Hazelwood! our small stream is now a river and we had to cut the fence to get shep out onto higher ground, we thought they would be high enough up but they were not
We have ewes we want to split to go to ram and we cant split them as two of our fields are under the river at this moment   it's not what you expect in July is it. These fields we don't expect to use in winter but not this time of year. Anyway i hope they lifted the hose pipe ban

[Blinkers]

Hi mate - blimey, kept wondering how you were faring down there.  Fab photos and the sheep all look fine although a tad puzzled.   Was everything OK at home?
x

[SteveHants]

Most of my sheep have been sent 'up the hill' to Salisbury to graze this time of year, which is lucky. Its not quite as bad as that by me though, I have to say.

[Hazelwood Flock]

What a difference a day makes!
Yesterday...

 
Today...

 
Yesterday...

 
Today...

 
Yesterday...

 
Today...
 
All sheep back together and none the worse for their soggy ordeal, the fencing has taken a battering though..

 
And one of the main routes up to Somerset from here passes through Beaminster tunnel, but not now for a bit due to the top being wiped out by a landslide - good job no one was driving underneath it when it came down!

Here's hoping for some summer at least....
RIP to the couple who tragically lost their lives, their car was buried under this landlide and was not discovered until 9 days later when Somerset police followed up leads on the missing couple suggesting they were in this area. So very sad

[jaykay]

That is the trouble with floods - the next day it's as though nothing had happened, except for all the chaos to clear up 

Glad all is well, hope that sheep isn't blaming you too much 

[Bramblecot]

Hi Hazelwood!  Thanks for all that water (we are downstream 5 miles from HW) .  Chaos here and we made the national news (briefly).  Landslide in the village, and a huge oak tree came down which took us all day to saw up.  Such a shame but logs for the whole winter for a friend of ours.
And today...glorious sunshine and a BBQ...crazy weather.
Wish me luck tomorrow -flock being tested 

[Hazelwood Flock]

Good luck Bramblecot, i'm sure it will be fine!