Eep.

[vilakins]

I hear that the floods in the UK have got much worse overnight. I hope everyone here is all right and you haven't had to be evacuated.

And to those of you who apologised for complaining about the weather a couple of weeks ago--don't. You have every right, as I said back then. [virtual hugs and hot cups of tea to you all]

Comments

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

I am fine thanks - and wondering what all the fuss is about. Garienos keeps asking me to watch BBC News 24 but the link on the internet is down due to the flooding too!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've seen footage on the BBC world service of people's houses under water to almost the roof, and people being evacuated by boat and helicopter in the south of England. The RAF says it's the biggest peacetime evacuation they've done.

[sorry about reposting; I got the wrong icon]

[quarryquest.livejournal.com]

I love that Icon - Vila looking very unhappy and a recognisable bit of Betchworth Quarry in the background.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

:-) Two quarries in one icon!

[hafren.livejournal.com]

There's a great deal of inconvenience especially, this time round, in the south and west, but little worse, and vox pops stuck on motorways or baling out houses are saying It Could be Worse in a proper British way. I expect any moment to hear "mustn't grumble" or "there is a war on, you know". My daughter's visiting a friend in London and was supposed to return today on a line where neither trains nor alternative buses are guaranteed. I suspect she'll either have a very long juorney and finish her HP book or stay another day at her friend's. Inconvenient but hardly tragic. I think our embarrassment about weather complaints comes from knowing that in other parts, weather can be more extreme and fatal.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

we've had big floods up north here too, mainly affecting farms and one village they're talking of moving because it's flooded so often, but of course there are a lot fewer people involved here. It's affected a huge area and a large number of people over there, hasn't it? It looks terrible on the news (though I know of course that reporters always show the worst).

[florencisalesas.livejournal.com]

Yes, what a bloody situation there, I watched the imnages at the TV too :S
I hope English friends would be OK.
(And here we suffer a hard dew... the weather is crazy all around the world, really :S)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Hard dew? You mean frost? And it's summer there!

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

We are fine here in Bristol, but getting steverogerson and killalla home on the trains may be more complicated than usual!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I can imagine! I'm amazed Steve got there at all.

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

We missed the worst here, fortunately, and in any case live on a hill, but it's been very bad in some areas. It's come as a bit of a shock since, maybe thanks to GW, the trend over the last couple of decades had seemed to be for our summers to become warmer and drier.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I could live with drier myself!

You know, centuries ago it rained for several years in Europe, a real disaster for the crops. I think they mentioned it on Time Team, but at any rate, extreme events have always happened.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Well if I was bothered by floods it would be 'end of the world' time. But the rivers, brooks, dingles and nants are very wild and some of the flatter bits of road are partially flooded. I do feel very sorry for those poor dears at Barry ( a seaside resort just the other side of Cardiff) who suffered a deep flash flood on Friday and all those who are going through their second floods must be in despair.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We're on a hill too, but some of our roads on the flat have been impassable due to floods.

Yes, the damage must be so upsetting. There's a village up north that gets flooded almost every year (including this month) and they're considering moving it.

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your concern. We're okay up here in Scotland - hurrah for steep hills! - but my aunt's flat in Sheffield is compeltely underwater.

Gotta love that british weather.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Oh no, your poor aunt!

I'm on a hill too, but I do worry about landslides in heavy rain; they've happened here, quite spectacularly sometimes.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

I've been fine, although I got a bit of a soaking when I went to see Othello at the Globe yesterday.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

You were brave to venture out in that! I hope you enjoyed it anyway.

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

It was great. I'm just about to compose a post on it.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

So far fine, no reason to worry for me.
Nice advert for "Evan Almighty" though.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Building small ark in your garden, are you? ;-)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

We had a laugh about that on the way home from the cinema, Arkwright is a common name in Yorkshire and Biblical names are popular too. So you have Noah Arkwright who builds in feet and inches none of these cubits (No not the TV robot series- er my daughter had forgotten they were a unit of measurment)!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

"That's a very big rain to be a small arkwright under."

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know it was going on. We went to York to visit middle child and watch six hours of Shakespeare that son-in-law was in (all of Henry VI). There was hardly any rain there, but we had no TV, radio, computer or newspapers while we were there.

Popped on-line after we sorted ourselves out when we got back, and then went out to dinner to save cooking.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I love York! Where was the play? Did your son-in-law do well?