Lots of rain warnings

[OhYoubadbadKitten]

Including amber for part of the south.

Wind becoming more constant here. I'll be in bed by the time the rain arrives!

Oooooh though I could go to bed with the iPad, turn off the lights and have the curtains open and the window a bit with a baileys and a heated wheat bag.

That sounds lovely

Just catching up on it all; been remarkably quiet up north today. I think these days flash floods can happen just about anywhere - even outside flood zones as councils have lost track of all the underground culverts and maintenance suffers from funding cuts bitter experience Our systems simply can't cope with such intense weather. Completely agree with redwellybluewelly about managing upstream, but not convinced that people are ready to hear that message just yet...

General tip to anyone - don't keep your photoalbums on the bottom shelf of your bookcase

redwelly - I agree, it is about how the up land is managed. But one of the problems in my locale is the government requirement for extra housing. To avoid building a huge estate on a greenfield site, the council has permitted a lot of infill housing. There's a very long road that goes horizontally part-way up the up, which in the past had large houses on huge gardens. Infilling has meant that most of those gardens have been sold off to developers and now have hundreds of new houses. So that buffer has been lost forever. (And the greenfield site is now going to built on anyway.)

Rain has just reached us here and temperature is starting to drop.

Hope everyone out there is safe and dry, or at least in their temporary accommodation ( drmelons, please tell me that's insurance paying for a hotel not a camp bed in a village hall). It is calm and dry here, so it will be better for you lot eventually, I can't believe there could be any rain left in the sky after all of it here, weather is proper amazing . OYBBK I've been in and out all day watching the rain and the floods, it is totaly fascinating when it's not doing anyone harm.

OYBBK does the weather ever go East-West instead, it seems to always hit us first.

Surely it would be in the best interests of everyone especially the insurers to try to prevent flooding rather than just accept that it is going to happen several times a year and usually in the same places, it is not rocket science to fit waterproof barriers around doors in the event of a bad weather warning as I do, I simply slot in a sheet of white plastic 1 metre high into fitted watertight slots at each side of the doors I wonder why insurance companies do not provided these simple devices in the usual high risk areas and save everyone a lot less hassle and money.

I'm in Surrey and it is very windy and just starting to rain. Glad I'm inside!

Lostinwales - sometimes! But you are right the prevailing winds are from the west.

Bureni, things like that could help with well designed houses. We have suspended timber floors and have had issues with our air bricks being a source of water ingress, so I do sand bag them when I'm concerned (use carrier bags and play sand-works well enough. Of course you need to make sure that people can get out, and I expect legislation is careful to protect elderly and disabled people as they could struggle with your system. However, we do need to find more intelligent solutions to help if we are going to insist on building in flood prone areas.

Oricella, agree with you.

OYbbK I really enjoy your weather enthusiasm, I like a good bit of weather too :) .

We flooded in 2003. We had sealed our doors etc beautifully, not a drop came in that way. It came in through the concrete floor. We subsequently found out that it depends on the geology of the area. With us it was not the river spilling over it was the ground water level rising beneath us.

Everyone who has/is facing floods I really feel for you.

kitten

did you say there was maybe a storm in the south of the UK over the weekend??

sorry if im diverting from todays weather

Crickey nemno, I guess once the water table is saturated it can just come up.

Thekidsrule, yes and it may not turn out to be much or it may turn out to be really nasty. Whenever I see storms coming up from that direction I dread the uncertainty! It doesn't take much at all to alter the impact and so often it feels like crying wolf, but sometimes they do deliver and some of the models show that.

I spent 5 minutes trying to move a big bag of builders sand so that the water could go down a drain not into my neighbours property until I realised there was water running out of the drain into my neighbours as well as the stuff coming down the hill. I think the water table here is about 1mm below ground level. I am not even going to look at the natural spring in our cellar. Still, coming up through the concrete is pretty special.

thanks kitten im about 2 miles from the coast and about as farsouth as you can get

will watch weather with interest

love this section on mn and you do a fab job with all the info

I would say that your ground is pretty much full up lost!

Thank you thekidsrule :)

I have heavy rain. Not yet torrential and gusting wind and i am tucked up in my warm bed with a baileys.

Oh bed, baileys and listening to bad weather, my perfect evening

I finished my baileys and the squall line is here. As we have new fences and new guttering installed I can relax and enjoy it tries to forget a out leaking garage

It's ever so rainy out there!

I'm almost sad it's dark for you OYBBK you can't see how little you can see, IYSWIM

Even rainier now!

Well I hope that everyone manages a peaceful night with out too much disturbance. Back tomorrow with an update on Saturday nights potential.

Awwwwww Lost, I feel all cosy! It is quite sad that after all of this I only get to hear it and I need my sleep at the moment. Gnight!

It's getting VERY windy in Essex but no main as yet. Hope everyone has a safe night.

mark my place for tomorrow

I think it's stopped at last, Herefordshire/ Worcester boarder was vile, back roads underwater, main roads nearly under water, just yuck.

Morning all. I am up stressing about whether I can get DS1 to the bus and whether the bus can get him to school.

Council website is still showing yesterday's info re weather, road closures and school buses.

Morning, I hope everyone got through the night safe and dry.