Flooding

[pande]

Just a warning to those of you who have boats on "The Henley Reach" that are left unattended, please go and check them. I can help if needed.
We have had to decamp to my mothers as it is too deep and dangerous to get to our boat.
IT IS GOING TO GET WORSE. I have got pictures but they are too dark to come out on here I think (work too long hours and don't see it in the light!!)

 

[Brayman]

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Just a warning to those of you who have boats on "The Henley Reach" that are left unattended, please go and check them. I can help if needed.
We have had to decamp to my mothers as it is too deep and dangerous to get to our boat.
IT IS GOING TO GET WORSE. I have got pictures but they are too dark to come out on here I think (work too long hours and don't see it in the light!!)

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Sorry to hear that Emma, hope it soon subsides.
And I gather Phyllis Court want to put up their mooring charges!
Long hours????? Does anyone notice?

 

[pande]

"And I gather Phyllis Court want to put up their mooring charges!"

They do - don't get me started on that one

"Long hours????? Does anyone notice?"

I don't think that they do, but they still pay me at the end of the month!!!!!

 

[apollo]

"Long hours????? Does anyone notice?"

You and me both....

 

[Captain Coochie]

I think the whole river is high and running fast . I have been over Richmond and Walton bridges today and it is flying . Here we go again /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

 

[Brayman]

At least it isn't summer!

 

[pheran]

A word of warning. I went to Lechlade this afternoon - by car I hasten to add - and was surprised by the extensive flooding up there. Field after field covered in water, The river has burst its banks in numerous places and all that water is going to be coming downstream very soon. So yes - it looks as though its going to get a lot worse.

On the up side, I managed to do a couple of very good deals with antique shop owners there who hadn't seen a customer all week. Its a ill-wind............. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Elessar]

They've had a pump running at the back of our house in Marlow since Monday - a full revving diesel engine with your pillow vibrating all night isn't nice.
Thames Water put it there and a refusing to speak to me about moving it - they say the river is about to burst and will help stop flooding.
Firstly I can't see how a pump can compete with the river, secondly the lazy sods could move the pump away from my house by laying out a few flexible pipes.
Sorry it's not as bad as being flooded but I am at the end of my tether with it, and the main point is clearly they're expecting something a bit further down river.

 

[jecuk]

So at Marlow, the river is up in our garden (when I say garden I mean lake) probably 1" above where it was in the 2007 floods. Rose about 1" today.

 

[IFS]

Old saying for riverside dwellings. "Nice in the summer with the river at the bottom of the garden, but in the winter when the gardens at the bottom of the river!"

 

[pande]

I agreed with that one /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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[Gavi]

Same here!

 

[oldgit]

We had some extremely high tides down here in Rochester over the last couple of days probably made worse by you wimpy Thames lot closing the barrier again just when the big springs arrive.
Still suppose we do not want a lot of city bankers getting their tootsies wet.