MmeLindt
Fri 20-Nov-09 07:50:49
Who is in the parts of the country affected by the flooding? Cumbria? Where else?
They are reporting that a police officer is missing. Hope that they find him, my thoughts are with his family.
Met office shows it must have calmed down abit. Yesterday must have been really bad.
MmeLindt
Fri 20-Nov-09 08:10:36
Don't you have family in that area, Admylin?
Saltire
Fri 20-Nov-09 08:14:14
My mum is in Dumfriesshire, also very badly affected. She syas the river near her (it runs through the centre of her town) is very high but hasn't quite started affecting property, although is into some gardens. 62mm of rain fell at Eskdlaemuir weather observatory yesterday and overnight
Yes, the town has been cut off completely. Saw the news last night and the water was right up to the street next to my parents street.
iliketurquoise
Fri 20-Nov-09 08:34:54
yes, my thoughts are with them, too.
MmeLindt
Fri 20-Nov-09 08:47:02
We have family in Dumfries and Galloway, must email them. They are at the top of a hill so they will be ok, hope the town is not too affected.
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It does look truely devastating in parts. Horrific. I think it will be quite difficult to contact people with power cuts and obvious displacement, so if you are trying to and can't get through, try not to worry too much.
Astonishing amounts of rain in the hills - they may confirm 370mm.
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MmeLindt
Fri 20-Nov-09 11:50:13
nymphadora
No, stay home where you are safe as I hope most others will do so.
It must be an awful feeling, waiting and hoping that the waters stop rising.
Very sensible Nymphadora. Better to stay safe.
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mollyroger
Fri 20-Nov-09 12:04:34
watching the footage of last night in cockermouth was quite shocking
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nymphadora my parents live in Ulverston, at the bottom of the school playing fields. They're away at the moment, but do you think their house is all right? And how odd to meet another Ulverstonian! 
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MmeLindt
Fri 20-Nov-09 12:29:48
That is shocking, I also had a picture in my mind of a small stony bridge.
Slightly OT, but there is an ad for Autumn Watch running across the top of that clip. 'Get closer to nature'. Not very appropriate.
mabh
Fri 20-Nov-09 12:39:56
nymph I didn't know you were a fellow Cumbrian???!!!
Cripes it's awful. The 14 inches of rain were measured at Seathwaite at the foot of Borrowdale. The Keswick-Borrowdale road is cut off (no wonder, it's alongside the Derwent as it runs into the Lake) which presumably means all the people in Grange and the other villages are cut off as well as flooded. Cockermouth is under 8ft.
It seems to have gone down a bit in Keswick but some of the villages on the Solway plain are pretty hard to get to because of floodwater pouring off the field into the lanes.
And as for Workington??? OMG. Fortunately my rellies are out of it.
We're ok in the Eden Valley - can't get about too easily as lanes are under, but not many houses gone this time.
Oh, Cripes I hate it.
Attenborough
Fri 20-Nov-09 12:43:25
It's tremendously frightening, isn't it? I have family in Mockerkin and Whitehaven (fortunately high on the hills towards Moresby) and am in London watching the TV footage in absolute horror.
The photos are realy shocking and i feel very sorry for all the people who have had to leave their homes,I cant imagine how awful it must be.
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mabh
Fri 20-Nov-09 12:49:21
attenborough I hope they're ok in Mockerkin. Braithwaite was inaccessible last might and I hear Dearham primary was shut yesterday.
Sadly they've just released the details of the policeman who was standing on the bridge in Workington when it went - which makes me think they've decided they aren't going to find him. 
OMG
