This is normally a passable road but it's one way towards us (hence the sign). There are a couple of 'fords' where two streams cross the road and this time last year they were hardly a trickle. When we walked over for a look yesterday you could tell that the waters had been up to three and a half feet. Luckily the houses here are built on higher ground - in Cambridge there have been quite a few properties flooded, one lot had had their flood defences stolen by metal thieves and another installed their flood defences at the front only to find that the drains backed up and the water filled their houses from the back gardens.
Oh dear! It's bad there. Luckily, living on an island, everything flows to the sea and there are no large rivers to overflow. But getting really fed up with constant rain...
@aspada Lots of talk!! They have actually worked on a lot of areas and in fact they've improved Cambridge enormously by renovating the drainage canals around town - it used to flood most years but this is the first time since they did it - extreme and prolonged wet weather....
I think this road makes a very pretty river as long as no one was flooded...a pretty curve in the road & the house beyond! I can see where the ford is & I hope it never gets to 6 foot, that would be very alarming.
Every picture tells a story ~ and this well illustrates your unbelievably wet summer. Hope you see an end to the rain soon. Although I think I read that wet weather was expected for much of the Olympics...but that was a while back, so maybe the forecast has improved since then.
You have to wonder at the sort of people who would steal flood defences...