Flooding, Has 2020 got any more punches to throw

[billybagpuss]

Lying here listening to the rain, most roads near us are impassable. I need to pass at least one of them tomorrow to pick up Christmas dinner. Christmas already messed up with dd2 self isolating and dd1 stuck in tier 4.

There are rumours that some homes are already flooded and people are spending the night in the Local primary school.

Stay safe everyone and roll on 2021

@Scumble

I don't recall flood warnings being massively prominent on Gloucestershire Live (although flood stories are all over it today, along with Tier 3), but then I suppose they prefer to prioritise bizarre 'Praised for Packing Well In Aldi' stories...

You actually managed to plough through the pop up ads far enough to read an article, I’m impressed 😆

Houses have been evacuated here in Wales again, such a crap time with everything else going on. It does seem to be different areas to last time so I'm really hoping that those affected in February aren't going through it all over again.

I'm in Northamptonshire and the m1 was closed from my daughters work in Northampton to our town. Its been raining heavy all day here and very dark. What a way to end a chappy year!

Crappy not chappy!!!

Glos too. There are floods in the usual places... We seem ok last I looked and it sounds like it's stopped raining but elsewhere in the town the culverts aren't looking good.

I’m in south east wales and it’s been relentless today. I drove home from work at 3pm and the hamlet just up the road from me was flooding and people were desperately trying to brush water away from thier house. Then later in the evening there wasn’t a road out of my village that was passable and one of the roads is an A road! Both directions were shut by police due to flooding and our council were saying to not travel anywhere unless an emergency as so many roads around our rural county were flooded and people getting stranded putting pressure on emergency services. Luckily we are on a a slope so unless it became biblical and some houses were 1 storey under water we won’t flood. There are houses in the nearby town that have been evacuated or had to leave thier home due to being flooded today. Makes me so sad after all that’s happened this to them be flooded out of your home for Christmas. Rain has stopped so hopefully water will reside overnight allowing roads to be accessible but doesn’t really help those that have already flooded.

You're right near me OP. Our village is currently an island. Took several different attempts to get home.

The community seems to have come together to help in the local town, just feeling really awful for the house that have been flooded.

West Oxfordshire here and lots of roads are cut off.. several villages are impassable. My son in law has just had to dash out and cover a colleague (care workers) because colleague tried to drive through a flood..and failed!

Flooding here, we are sandwiched between Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, it's rained solid and heavy for five days and the water has yet to get to us from Wales but it's already flooding from surface water never mind the rivers

So much and so relentless. It sounds much calmer now, let’s hope everyone is warm dry and safe now.

We are in the Newport area so rather bad last night, gentle brook become a rather angry flood in the garden and I managed to get trapped in by flood water in a local village- luckily we are safe although it was a bit scary! Waters gone back and lovey people at Morrison’s put our click and collect order aside and we’re sitting anyone affected by flooding down for a free coffee and giving them a discount today, so appreciated! Apart from a soggy carpet or two we’re ok though and so many of my neighbours have lots and lots of damage this morning Given the announcement in the week about my region being the global Coronavirus epicentre right now it’s been rather a week!

Thoughts with everyone affected and let’s ball hope for a better 2021! Poor theatre tech husband has just about had enough.

My girls and I drove from Cheltenham to the Forest of Dean then back to Gloucester and on to Broadway in the Cotswolds yesterday dropping off presents and it was awful driving through so many flooding roads. Was so good to get home. Thank goodness we didn't do it the other way round as was previously planned and been stuck on the A40 - as some of my family were for hours yesterday on way home from work. Dreadful conditions to be driving in. Didn't stop some people zooming past me at 60mph but that's another thread altogether

I've just travelled cross country from the wring side of Over roundabout to Cheltenham and back again.

About 40 cars abandoned in the road, puddles passable on one route - good job I've lived out here for years and know all the alternative roads.

It's almost as bad as 2007, a metre or so short of it and, high tide allowing, is mostly surface run off. So the main road should be open any minute, with the last abandoned car being removed.

I hope all you other Glosterites on this side of the river are safely home 💜

I'm in Gloucestershire too, so many roads flooded last night, my poor work colleague got stuck, had to abandon car and was escorted home by fire service at 2am!

@mizu

My girls and I drove from Cheltenham to the Forest of Dean then back to Gloucester and on to Broadway in the Cotswolds yesterday dropping off presents and it was awful driving through so many flooding roads. Was so good to get home. Thank goodness we didn't do it the other way round as was previously planned and been stuck on the A40 - as some of my family were for hours yesterday on way home from work. Dreadful conditions to be driving in. Didn't stop some people zooming past me at 60mph but that's another thread altogether

My nephew just called in to pick up pressies and said it’s improving and the A40 has reopened. My daughter just made it back home yesterday evening in the nick of time. Tewkesbury is looking pretty bad I think. All we need!

I don't think anyone got flooded in my town luckily, but it was looking dicey. Relieved. Friend lives behind Over Farm (it's raised) and she said it's receeded on the road now and she's still dry luckily. When we moved to Glos she warned us off that area and I'm so glad she did.

Have to convince the other half to move up the hill and find an extra £500k for a house there so we don't have to worry in future.

Btw Glos residents: did you know the A46 Cooper's Hill will be closed for 3 months in January? Hill erosion again.

Cambs here. Worst flooding in decades on our street. Some people have had to move out and those who'd put their presents under the tree early have lost those. Good riddance, 2020.

I didn't realise how bad it was until DH said when he got home. The roads near us are prone to surface water flooding but he said it is spectacularly bad at the moment, we are on the Essex/Suffolk border.

Hope everybody is safe and anyone needing to travel is extra cautious.

My as was flooded yesterday, he's lived in the house for over 40 years and it's the first time it's happened. Luckily it didn't reach the electrics. The lads from the local rugby club turned up to help remove the carpets, he found out that the floor underneath was tiled.

Dad not as

@HoneysuckIejasmine

I don't think anyone got flooded in my town luckily, but it was looking dicey. Relieved. Friend lives behind Over Farm (it's raised) and she said it's receeded on the road now and she's still dry luckily. When we moved to Glos she warned us off that area and I'm so glad she did.

Have to convince the other half to move up the hill and find an extra £500k for a house there so we don't have to worry in future.

Btw Glos residents: did you know the A46 Cooper's Hill will be closed for 3 months in January? Hill erosion again.

And between pitchcombe and Stroud I think

Euuuuggghhh going to be such a pain to get to Stroud 🤦🏻‍♀️ Motorway and then the look drag through Stonehouse.

Another Cambs homeowner here. I couldn't get into work today as roads were shut every way in. Feel so bad for those with flooded homes.

Eurgh! Thanks for the info on the road closure. I'll have to rework my routes around Stroud, Uley etc. Probably go through Gloucester, don't like the M5 drag, it gets bloody manic!

Yeah I'd go through Robinswood Hill area and out down past the old Steiner school and out past Rococo Gardens. Try to avoid Glos itself though, but it's a matter of what's easier based on traffic levels.

A46 closure takes my potential school run routes down to 3 instead of 4, varying from 10 minutes to an hour, and it's one of the shorter ones 🤦🏻‍♀️. I like to be prepared, there's been 3 road closures on my preferred route since September. Ah, rural life!