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[Bob Williams]

Some horrendous rainfall and severe flooding this week. My old county Notts has not escaped, with Mansfield suffering from being down in the dip that is the Maun valley. (River Maun –  valley name Maunsfeld, original historical name) Wales, The West, Yorkshire and the western part of the East Midlands seem to have suffered most. But once again the East Lindsey micro climate has been different: we have had lots of rain, but by the time it gets here it is too tired to be a deluge and is just a steady, ongoing downpour. Last couple of days we have had brilliant sunshine, but very cold. This was Mablethorpe yesterday (Sunday) after the Sand Race dirt bikes had gone:

Complete with the shadow of some idiot; can’t he see I’m taking a photograph?

Beautiful day, we enjoyed the 3 miles and a snack at Mister G’s cafe, but my Gert was shattered. Raining steadily again today.

 

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[Dave Rice]

For a change the weather isn’t coming up the M5 from Cornwall so we’ve missed the worst of it. Lovely and sunny today but damp everywhere as it doesn’t get warm enough to dry out all the leaves covering everything. Bloody cold in the wind though.

[PlaneMan]

Similar to Dave.

Not that cold as such, about 7 celsius, lots of wet leaves but a bitter wind.

[Bob Williams]

Lots of leaves in our Close here, several very mature trees, huge Willow across the way, four big old Sycamores, a Rowan and a Horse Chestnut. All the leaves wet through, plastered to the road and pavements. I used to collect them up for compost when I grew veg, but gave that up about 6 years ago. In one of the Sycamores is a big old wasp nest, they are almost all dead now, just the caretaker wasps looking after the thousands of larvae, each in a little hexagonal cell with a nice juicy paralysed insect, grub or caterpillar for food.

This morning a huge Bumble Bee was dead on the doormat, probably looking for warmth. Felt sorry, but didn’t try mouth to mouth though, it looked well dead.😚

I think the UK is floating on a huge aquifer by now, ground water must be high everywhere. No drought next year. The country needs wind and sun now to take off the top water. Some hopes! My gt-nephew up north of Aberdeen sent me a pic of snow, I told him to keep it up there. He and his kids are Arctic Williams’s: they will be out on the mountains at the weekend, on the MTB’s.

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[PlaneMan]

About 20 minutes ago I did my bi-weekly fluids check on the car.

Feels like minus 3 out there. Wind is gathering and getting colder.

Some of the low lying fields out between Dinas Powys and Barry are heavily flooded, nothing really new apart from the extent of the flooding. They must be have about 5 feet of water on them, maybe more. Never seen them like that. Some are close to flooding the road.

[Bob Williams]

Any floods in Lincolnshire affect farming, especially on the flatlands, of which we have plenty! This farmer in particular will have his work cut out to make any profit from his fields next season.

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Flood warnings all over our area:

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Follow The A157 on this map https://tinyurl.com/sq4s8h7

–  from the red spot on the left: that’s where I live. Past Castle Carlton, South Reston towards Withern. Just after ‘Main Road’, the A157 drops down a gradient  towards the river called the Great Eau, which eventually reaches the sea. Most of the area of extensive farm fields to the right of this road is now flooded and sheep have had to be taken out of the fields after being increasingly forced away by rising water as the Eau burst its banks. Withern is where my son, daughter and families live and I drive that road regularly. “The Withern Lake” and “web footed sheep” is a local joke, as the Eau rises  after every heavy rain, being at the bottom of a gradient, and sheep are always there. However, this is the highest it has ever risen and even the resident swans have gone. The older residents say that they have never seen it that high, and Sid next door to my son is over 90, lived there all his life. In the 1953 floods, a trickle of sea water reached Withern, but that was a tidal flood, totally different. I have told my kids to keep an eye on the flood warnings and move stuff upstairs if they have to.

Our county is also having to drain the East Midlands of course. The dykes are all full and some are overtopping. At least the Drainage Board is doing its job by regular digging out, even if the Environment Agency has not dredged the rivers properly.

Bob Williams, looking for a boat, Lincolnshire.

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