Just watching the floods on the news, isn't it dreadful. Thinking about anyone affected by the floods, hope you are all ok.

[MmeLindt]

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.

Don't you have family in that area, Admylin?

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.

yes, my thoughts are with them, too.

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.

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.

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.

watching the footage of last night in cockermouth was quite shocking

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

nymph is Kendal still ok then? Burneside was under it yesterday, wasn't it? But then the Kent seems to go up quickly and then go down quickly.