Tag: flood
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F-Day plus 3
It's only been three days since we had to evacuate our rapidly-flooding house. Here's some horror pics.
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Normal life
I want normal life back now, please.
I appreciate that it's only 40-ish hours since my house flooded and we had to move out. But with all the stress and activity that's necessarily followed, it feels like it's been so much longer.
Unrelated note: why has the person in the room above me at this hotel been … -
The calm after the storm
This morning, from my Premier Inn window, the skies are clear. I could almost forget that, just 4 miles away, my house is full of water.
Today may well be a day of waders and damage assessment, conversations with insurance companies and of working out where we'll be living for the near future.
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Flood
My house is under water.
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Geohashing expedition 2024-11-23 52 -8
My mother and I's second attempt at a geohashing expedition in Ireland didn't go so well, being blocked by flooding that washed-out the roads between us and the hashpoint, so we did some geocaching and visited a museum instead.
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Oxford Under Water
Parts of Oxford have flooded, making it difficult for Dan to cycle to work. Difficult... but not impossible! Wellies on, Dan sets out into the disaster zone.
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Network Rail engineers near Redbridge Park & Ride sit in their van as it sinks into a field. I feel really sorry for them!
AltNetwork Rail engineers sinking into a flooded field
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Water
My house is full of it. This isn't good.
Much thanks to Welsh Water, where a friendly man talked me through the quirks in my stop tap (who'd have thought that it would be so hard to turn a tap off and drain a system). Now I suppose I ought to start mopping. Then I suppose … -
Swimming To Work
Dan's coworker Gareth leaves a window open and floods the office.
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Sand and seawater
This repost was published in hindsight, on 11 March 2019.
Claire wrote:
Got up late, and spent the day on Ynyslas beach (A small town North of Aberystwyth, on the coast) with Paul, Kit, Fiona (Kit's new girlfriend, as I'm sure he will relate in his next entry) and Dan. The water was warm, if a …