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After today's monsoon, I think that may be all that's left for me!

There's no history of flooding here, until today. Our stream now covers most of our neighbour's field, all of our front garden and about a third of the veg plot. The tunnels are within inches of floating off. We have no vehicle access and when the lane re-emerges, much of it will have been destroyed. The septic tank is completely under water and has started returning it's contents to the downstairs loo and shower. Lovely.

And it's STILL raining!

Sorry to hear of your predicament Tigger, i hope you are not left with too much damage.

More fun in Horncastle! Driving into work took me an hour - got diverted three times because of flooded roads.

Horncastle Town centre


Church road


Tesco & side houses


Rear of the Ship Inn

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Tigger, This must be devastating for you after all your gardening efforts. We have a lot of local flooding here too, but not as bad as you. Do hope the rain stops soon. Sounds like an emergency inflatable dinghy should be your next purchase.

Commiserations to all you poor souls who've had the worst of these floods.
Not too bad here, though I think my raspberries will start rotting off if it doesn't stop raining soon.
And poor Number Two Son went to school with wet trousers after mum got herself muddled up with what really needed drying and what didn't.
Serves him right for getting up ten minutes before he has to leave.

So sorry to hear of your predicament Tigger.

oh tigger thats horrible
i do hope the rain goes away soon-lily sings that song and expects it to go away!
perhaps an ark may be your next buy?
take care

jenny-10 mins is a long time!

wet here: not as bad as forecast.
We live about 150 metres above sealevel and if we flood then Staffordshire and Cheshire are covered:-) as will be London...

(I was brought up near the sea and used to see flooding every winter.. as a result when we moved house it was always well away from running water , NOT at the bottom of a hill and nowhere near any flood path/plain/watercourse..)

jopsy wrote:
jenny-10 mins is a long time!

Not long enough to dry a pair of trousers with a hair dryer, which was his suggestion.

Strong, cold winds and pouring rain here. Oh my poor tomatoes!

It transpires that our dilemma is not due to our local stream but to the management of the 4 lakes above us. Had they been left to their own devices, we would have been OK. Alas, their owner decided to open them. That saved their land and swamped ours.

Update tomorrow!

tigger can you claim for loss of lovely veg?

jenny-ive been there drying trousers

Tigger, veg nothwithstanding, is that a legal thing to do? It could have been your house, not just your garden.

We've been lucky really as the worst that's happened is Seedling and I have been very annoyed at not being able to get to the plots. The 100ml of rain forecast for the past 24 hours came down as a couple of showers, around 2ml I would have said and today is a beautiful sunny blue sky affair so far.

Rugby's built on a hill, so when we do have floods (and not just the drain in the road blocked variety) they create a moat around the outlying retail parks.

I hope today is better for you Tigger, keep us posted.

Tigger wrote:It transpires that our dilemma is not due to our local stream but to the management of the 4 lakes above us. Had they been left to their own devices, we would have been OK. Alas, their owner decided to open them. That saved their land and swamped ours.

Update tomorrow!

Surely there must be a law against that?
Has the floodwater susbsided now? What's the damage like?
Can you charge your neighbour?

Hmmnnn. I'd like to think so , but the neighbours are the local gentry, so I don't think this is going to be a simple process. We've got lots of photos though.

tigger , there are all sorts of rules and regs about artificial lakes, it may be worth talking to your water board or maybe the environment agency to stop it happening again.

Thanks. I'll try those.