Pic is of the Park where I usually run and where our Park Run would be held. Yesterday we had flash floods and out street was flooded. Thanks to my back garden wall, we were the only house in the street not flooded through from back door to front. My neighbour had 2 foot of water in her house and garden. I had rainwater seeped in under my garage door and got wet a couple of rolls of carpet, that my son was storing before a job he has in a week or so, it came right up and was lapping at my new( just before lockdown) freezer,then went down again. But we got off so lightly compared to rest of the street. We have never flooded here in over 35 years. But the culprit was the amount of drains in Barnstaple that are completely full to the brim with mud and weeds, hence when we got a months worth of rain in an hour we had a river running down the streets and we live at the bottom of two hills, so it swept round the corner behind us and through all the back garden and out the front doors. I have cursed painting that damned wall so many times but really grateful for it now. And also our drive has a dropped pavement in front of it but it then goes up and down into my drive so the flood water didn’t get as high as the hump 🥵. At one point I was upstairs looking out and as far as I could see all was water... it was like being in a small island.
One poor girl in a wheelchair at the end of our road has to be lifted out an upstairs window by the fire brigade. In the end, when the road had emptied again, the men from a couple doors down went out and unblocked one of the drains outside their property and took a recycling boxful of toys, bricks, plastic bottles, mud etc out of it. And that was just one drain!!
Anyway enough of that. Thanking my lucky stars I went for another little 3k run this morning and my hip definitely seems to be feeling better. Usually when I get home I can hardly bend at the hips to take my shoes off but I can bend really easily now. Hopefully this means I am on the way to recovery at last. And now the sun is blazing again. But more rain forecast so 🤞no more floods. There are so many old people in our street I feel so sorry for them. Makes me count my blessings
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Indeed.it was halfway up cars as they tried to drive past the end of the road and also in our main square. Some poor sod’s back wall collapsed and fell into the little stream at the end of their house. I was so lucky. And Highways turned up 6 hours later to see if the drains needed unblocking!! They nearly got lynched!!
Its a terrible thing to happen limberlou. When I lived with my mum and dad it happened to us. The water started coming in really slow then there was no stopping it. It was December the water was about 4ft high and the Christmas tree was floating about.
That was December 1994, at the time I was working in Kirkintilloch, the office where I was working was flooded out from the nearby river Kelvin, sorry about your house being flooded at that time so near to Christmas.
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