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[aldabra]

You know how I bang on about the Victorian drainage here not having been designed for our current rainfall?

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[catyak]

If you're up early enough on Monday, perhaps you can report on the state of the Sepura car park so I know whether I want to drive to work that day...

I assume that's just standing water, not Cam overflow?

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[aldabra]

How early is early enough? (I think it's unlikely...)

[catyak]

It would have to be before I set out to work so I could check LJ, so before 7:30am. I suspect there's no chance of that :-) Send K over to have a look...

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[aldabra]

Sending K over would take significantly more effort than going to look myself, and my available effort doesn't go positive until after eight...

[ceb]

One of the trees by the Fort St George bridge has fallen over into the river. I'm wondering whether I should go and get photos...

[aldabra]

The one next to the one in the river appears to be upright only because it's leaning on the FSG bridge. I hope this doesn't precipitate a Cutter-Ferry-style removal of the bridge and dithering for years about how to put it back again.

[ceb]

Hm, I seriously hope not, that would put quite a crimp on my commute.

[feanelwa]

I realise your house is too full of stuff to move, but seeing the water table *above* the land and coming the wrong way through drain covers, and remembering where your house is in relation to the river and what passes for hills round there, I would consider moving electronic and valuable things upstairs if I was you.

[aldabra]

I was talking about this to K just a couple of days ago. The Environment Agency's once-in-a-hundred-years extreme flood risk maps show the water coming up into the gardens on the other side of our road, but not into the houses and not at all on our side. It's still south of Mariner's Way at the moment, and as far as I can see it's only the houses directly on riverside that are flooding. They've got an enormous slope behind them down from Newmarket Road, whereas our side is nearly flat to the North. I think we're OK if it doesn't rain like that again tonight...

[gareth_rees]

I think you'll get plenty of warning. The river has to flood all the commons, plus Riverside, Water Lane etc. before it can encroach on your road. The commons can take a lot of water.

[aldabra]

Which are the flood gateways?

I think the water has come down from Newmarket Road and in through the back, rather than up from the river.

[bjh21]

In image027, the steel channels are meant to take flood gates. At least, I assume that's why they (and the new garden walls) appeared after the floods ten years ago.

[ewx]

Only a few of the Riverside houses seemed to have had water trouble - one had a SOLD sign, so maybe it was unoccupied at the critical moment?

[khalinche]

Alarming stuff. I found the map at the end of this article quite interesting: http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/14/07/2012/133937/Dry-weather-hampers-Western-Isles-crofters.htm

[aldabra]

OU tutor says this is a change in the jetstream which may be a permanent consequence of the Arctic ice melting. I rather hope it isn't. I don't know what grows well in temperate monsoon, apart from undifferentiated leggy undergrowth.

[lnr]

The blackberries are looking like they'll be good this year...

[feanelwa]

I think we need to develop a variety of rice that can cope with temperate temperatures.