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Woke up this morning to find part of our road flooded and its gradually creeping along Luckily we live at the top of a hill from the town centre where the River Wey runs through. The garden is like a bog
Most of the fields round Ashford now look like lakes. Much of the area is floodplains, but the council do like to build houses on it. Aren't they clever!
My house is in a flood area too - and it was built in the early 1900s when they were supposed to do things properly (maybe just for posh houses though). The road outside fills up first so I get my feet wet getting into the car. The drains are just about coping at the moment.
Just going to go out and check on my pond, don't want the fish getting beached Think the drains have reached their full capacity which is why our road is starting to flood. Farnham has a flood plain near the town centre called the water meadows. We have been campaigning recently, as it was put up for sale, for the Farnham people to try and buy it.
can you get your hands on a few sandbagas just in case? Think DIY stores sell empty ones and builders merchants will fill them up for you.
It is a worry.
We are also on a hill. The top of the road has a bump thing across to stop extra water coming down the hill. And all the drives have one too. But the nearer the bottom you get of course, the more water there is. We have a soakaway which can't keep up with heavy prolonged rain and the garage then floods. It is happening more often wth this weird weather we have more and more of.
We are high here, and waterlogged! My Chooks are paddling around like Ducks - they could go inside, but choose to paddle! At the Stables, the paddocks have been waterlogged since the snow went. Had enough of it now.
All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.
A lot of fields around here have standing water in them, also I have seen several Canals and rivers have burst their banks. Its all the snow melt, the ground is too saturated.
My lawn is too sodden for me the do much tidying up of borders.
I get water in the games room most years, 'tis a nuisance. The water table here is so high, plus it comes through the slatebed from the pond.
I dug a drainage ditch a couple of years ago, complete with yellow pipes etc, and its not been as bad since, but the walls still suffer with damp.
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Bob Leponge
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Water seems to have receded a bit here. The trouble is that so many people round here seem to have changed their front gardens to hardstanding for the cars that there is nowhere for the water to go.
I get water in the games room most years, 'tis a nuisance. The water table here is so high, plus it comes through the slatebed from the pond.
I dug a drainage ditch a couple of years ago, complete with yellow pipes etc, and its not been as bad since, but the walls still suffer with damp.
games room! how posh is that
Kernow rag nevra
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
Bob Dylan
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