Anyone get stuck in the washout then?

[jon200]

i managed to break my rover. Conked out going down a road without a flood but it was after going through some reasonable puddles.

Funniest moment was leaving the car and catching the bus :wack: whilst on the bus i saw a new looking bentley with water 1/2 up the doors :eek: but unlucky really.

Anyone elso got some interesting stories? wonder what jae will be like :confused:

Jon

[disco-tom]

Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire are ****ed, basically....

Floods started in Gloucester at about 2pm and quickly bollocked the city by 3.30pm. I tried leaving at about 5.40pm and I got home at 9.30pm.... Journey usually takes me 30mins, tops. How the **** I got through some floods at Staunton I'll never know. Took the long wheelbase transit van mind - my car wouldn't have got very far at all.

In all my 31 years I've never ever seen it so bad here. The M50 has been totally closed since about 3pm I think and by the time I got to where I cross over it to get to Ledbury (about 8.30pm I think), it was total gridlock. They pulled everyone off the motorway they could and stuck them on the road above, totally blocking it. There's also a stationary caravan home site right by it and all those are either sat on the roads by the motorway or ****ed, down in the hole under 6 foot of water...

I parked the van up in a spot which I think will be free from flooding before the M50 (it can stay there untill Monday morning, too) and tabbed it through the flood (this was half way up my thighs) to see everyone parked up on the top of the motorway bridge. A few cars down on the M50 itself still - all you could see were they're roofs... Slip roads jammed solid; some out of the water, some under it. Nothing was getting through (or going to be tonight, I suspect). Even if you could get through the floods, there was just too many vehicles parked up on top. Two fire trucks and an emergency response team with some police were there, though what good they were doing escaped me. Mind, they had to make the mobile home site safe as there were tons of propane tanks all swept up together clanging away niceley.. :/

Past the motorway and down the other side of the bridge heading towards Ledbury and I had to wade through another flood which was up to my waste and had a pretty strong current, tbh. Similar story of vehicles parked up either side after that, but to a much lesser extent. Lucky that my sister was able to get from Ledbury out to meet me just past this point and get me home for 9.30 really, else I'd have been walking for another good two hours I reckon.


All in all, lods of people stranded.. Women and children stuck in cars with **** all chance of going anywhere tonight... :/

Can't blame anyone, either. Besides it doing no good, there was **** all that could be done in time by any emergency service or councill. Only thing that could have been done would have been to stay where they **** we were this morning and not gone anywhere today.

Feel so sorry for the poor folks flooded out and/or stranded today.. :/

[jon200]

bloody hell, thats one hell of a story. I'm glad i didn't have to go too far and glad that i got a lift in a citroen xzantia with lifty up suspension :D lifts it by a good 10 inches lol, Just enought. I gotta go up to telford today too :(. Might be joining the green club tom :nod: least you got home lastnight. Went back out to see a brand new X type jag driving through the flood with his lights below the water :eek: HOW?? but fair play to him, Made it out and off into the distance.

[disco-tom]

Aye, it was a bit of a mission, but at least I made it to within a couple of miles to my home.

Not had half as much of a mission as some, though. The M50 is still closed and the A417 crossing over it is still unpassable. Even though the water has gone down and the road is only covered in silt now, the vehicles from the M50 and the mobile homes from the site right next to it are still rammed on the road making it unpassable.

More rain set for today to make the same thing happen this afternoon/evening.

[jon200]

i gotta go to shropshire :( wish me luck. m5 looks pretty good though, well ish :wack:

[disco-tom]

M5 North is pretty clear, from what they're reporting. Good luck, Jon.

http://www.sc.iitb.ac.in/~janas/Fcros.jpg

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http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=302067

there are some pics of my street slowly turning into a river

[jon200]

took me fcuking 4 hours to get back :( bloody river severn. Thank god for sat nav. Went 4 different routes and got turned back then eventually went through a closed road and mane it through ledbury to get home at 6pm. What a day. Car is pretty good. Gonna change the gbox tomorrow though as its a bit noisy and i have one here anyway. M5 south was chokka all day so we tried to avoid it :rolleyes: waste of time in the end.

[stumitch]

Hull was like that weeks ago, luckily i was in Spain by then :D

[disco-tom]

Rain still coming in the south and south west. More still from Wednesday covering pretty much the entire country besides the east coast.

I went to work and had to take a weird and wonderfull route, then found Gloucester pretty much losing power and water. Water is off at work, so they decided to keep a skeleton staff there; asking for volunteers.


I came straight home and depending on the travel situation, I shall not be going back in tomorrow, either.

[Ramps]

Just been over to Tewkesbury :eek:

I thought I'd phone work when I got back from JAE to see if they were open tomorrow, but they asked me to pop in today because all the computer sytems were down :annoyed:

The road I go to our place on usually is under about 3 foot of water - never seen it that bad and I've been there 20 years. The road past our factory is a dead end usually but they've opened it up to get the milk lorries out from Cotswold Dairy, so there are bloody great lorries trying to get up and down a road that's only just big enough for one car - took me over an hour to get there :rolleyes: