I have heard nothing of floods on the Severn and as we live at 300' our marsh
just gets more wet when it rains. However this year we have been much wetter
than normal with the bottom ditch backed up a number of times. The first of
these was the worst when our front garden was also flooded with about 50,000
gallons of water. Actually that is not a problem as this sunken garden is
actually designed to fill as a backup and once the rain stops it normally
empties withing a day or so (rodding of pipes permitting by (resting for the
winter) boat-crew in wellies wading about in 'Pear tree lake' with a few
hundred feet of rods and a kit of fascinating attachments).
However once our water starts going down - as it has since last night - then
it and a lot of other water heads for the river Severn and of it goes to
Shrewsbury, Bridgenorth and points south over the next few days. On the local
radio there have been no flood reports from down there yet...
David Cragg
ddewater
Dave Larrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Glen Peckett wrote:
> The Nene has just about topped out Turnells Mill lock at
> Wellingborough tonight. Billing Aquadrome has apparently been
> evacuated!
And my grate frend Uncle Marvo has had to negotiate the purchase of a dinghy
in order to board his boat at Lower Ringstead :-)
--
Dave Larrington
<http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk>
uck Wa
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