It's a little wet over here! More pictures added.

[ChrisH]

999 in meltdown as storms leave thousands stranded

• Rail companies cancel train services
• Floods cause gridlock on the M5
• Police phone lines down
• Drivers forced to abandon cars
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469659&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

Some pictures
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/mordonzuriaga2_450x337.jpg

Charing Cross underground station
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/undergroundST2007_468x616.jpg

Smiling through.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/lady_276x450.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/child_298x450.jpg

More at the link above and at the BBC website here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6909198.stm

[wombat2u2004]

Geez.....you're really copping it over there ...eh ???? :eek:
How long has it been since you have ever had rain like that in the summer ???
Wom

[Randi]

I saw this on BBC earlier, isn't it amazing!! :eek: Maidenhead, where John came from is partly flooded too, and I don't dare think what his old friend's place look like now - he's in Lower Shiplake and has a lawn going right down to the backwater of The Thames! Think I'll give him a ring.

This is a Google Earth image of Lower Shiplake, his house is where the red dot is! View from his lawn.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Fister/England/Viewfromhouse1236.jpg

[ChrisH]

Geez.....you're really copping it over there ...eh ???? :eek:
How long has it been since you have ever had rain like that in the summer ???
Wom
Never, in my memory, and I'm pretty old. :D June was the wettest on record, looks like it has competition in July.

Randi, hope your friend and his home are ok.

[Killearn Kitties]

I cannot get over the picture of the steps to the undeground! :eek:

How is it with you Chris? We are fine here, but I heard a story on the radio this morning about a Scottish sports team of some sort who were stranded on the motorway on their way to a meeting in Wales. They did eventually get through this morning and the organisers very kindly re-scheduled their event until this afternoon to allow them to get some rest.

[Cinder & Smoke]

Image of Lower Shiplake, his house is where the red dot is!
The first two is his house and the view from it to The Thames.


Poor guy!
Must be tuff livin with the Poor Folk in the Low Rent District! :rolleyes:

Sure hope he found enough SandBags to build a Ring Around da House!
;)

[Cinder & Smoke]

Charing Cross underground station

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/undergroundST2007_468x616.jpg



:eek:

What's wrong with that picture??

Somehow, I DON'T think I'd be going UNDERGROUND whilst a 100-year RAINSTORM
was raging overhead - unless I had SCUBA Tanks rather than a Bumpershoot!

Where's my waders?
Where's my ARK?

;)

[crow_noir]

Prayers for your friend!


I saw this on BBC earlier, isn't it amazing!! :eek: Maidenhead, where John came from is partly flooded too, and I don't dare think what his old friend's place look like now - he's in Lower Shiplake and has a lawn going right down to the backwater of The Thames! Think I'll give him a ring.

This is a Google Earth image of Lower Shiplake, his house is where the red dot is! The first two is his house and the view from it to The Thames.

[ChrisH]

I cannot get over the picture of the steps to the undeground! :eek:

How is it with you Chris? We are fine here, but I heard a story on the radio this morning about a Scottish sports team of some sort who were stranded on the motorway on their way to a meeting in Wales. They did eventually get through this morning and the organisers very kindly re-scheduled their event until this afternoon to allow them to get some rest.
OK, thanks for asking :D We've had the rain but not the flooding, at least not yet, fingers crossed and touch wood. :D

[ChrisH]

An aerial view shows the extent of the flooding around Tewkesbury
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/tewksburyMS2107_468x332.jpg

A road near Cropthorne, Worcestershire, collapsed after it was undermined by flood water
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/pict220707MS_468x350.jpg

A fire rescue boat rescues a resident from their home near Evesham High Street
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/WatersideEvesG_468x291.jpg

A dramatic rescue by a Royal Air Force Sea King helicopter in Evesham
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/CwmmawrJet/Micellaneous%202/RescueEveshamG_468x639.jpg

[Randi]

Chris, I'm glad you're safe. :) It's simply horrendous, isn't it! I've contacted some people in the areas affected, including John's family, but haven't heard back from them.

Have you seen the videos on BBC's site? :eek:

They say, the worst isn't over yet. :(

[Killearn Kitties]

Glad you are OK Chris, Maggie is in Gloucestershire, isn't she? They didn't mention Stroud on the news. Hope she is OK.

I hadn't seen that collapsed road! :eek: I saw a couple rescued on the news tonight from Tewkesbury along with their dog, Henry. He seemed to take it all in his stride.

The big worry tonight for a lot of people in that area is that a water treatment works has been breached, and drinking water will not be fresh.

[ChrisH]

Randi, yes, I have seen the bbc videos. It is all so awful and more to come as the rain continues. :(

Karen, yes, I read about those poor people in Tewkesbury, they only have drinking water for today, and that day is nearly over.

[Randi]

It's getting worse in the Oxford area, water is still rising and will peak tomorrow morning there. :( They're running out of sand bags too. I'm of course interested in news from this area, as John's sister and BIL live there.

I found a site with a link to an Oxford radio station, have been listening to that for the past hour.

This is some of the latest news from BBC.

Oxfordshire has been particularly badly hit with hundreds of homes flooded over the weekend leaving thousands of people without power.

The River Thames is expected to burst its banks later and some homes in Oxford have already been evacuated.

Meanwhile, Standlake, Newbridge and Stanton Harcourt are reportedly under water with homes now being evacuated.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/6911321.stm

You can hear live reports on the radio here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/

[Maya & Inka's mommy]

Oh no..... !!
We are lucky here; we are having rain everyday too, but not really hloads of water. Thank goodness :)

[Muddy4paws]

What a disaster..!

I cannot drink tap water! Im out of money too and I need to boil every drink I want so buying water really isn't an option. The boiled water also has a weird taste to it. :confused:

The shopping centre I have my shop in got flooded quite badly, the tiles from the ceiling were falling in from the weight of the rain, Im so grateful my shop is on top of a slope because we missed alot of it.


I feel so bad for the people Im seeing on the news, Its so bad, I never thought it would happen as bad as it is.

[Randi]

Muddy4paws, I'm glad to hear you're safe. What shopping Center are you in? Brent Cross?

I've heard from John's family (they're in Oxfordshire) - and are OK. :) Part of their village was flooded, but luckily, they're in the other end.

However, it's a disaster over there! They're expecting the Thames to overflow down by the Henley/Reading area this afternoon. :eek:

This link has images for those interested: http://www.bbc.co.uk/oxford/content/articles/2007/07/21/flood_nos__feature.shtml

This is from a street in Witney, the next was sent by someone with a sense of humour, and the last shows a man pumping water in his Pub, just down the road from John's family (Standlake).

[jackmilliesmom]

I saw this on BBC earlier, isn't it amazing!! :eek: Maidenhead, where John came from is partly flooded too, and I don't dare think what his old friend's place look like now - he's in Lower Shiplake and has a lawn going right down to the backwater of The Thames! Think I'll give him a ring.

This is a Google Earth image of Lower Shiplake, his house is where the red dot is! View from his lawn.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v205/Fister/England/Viewfromhouse1236.jpg

I'll bet he has wet feet.... So how are you guys coping living in the country with plenty of hills and dips over here and when it rains we get it too. thank god my garden slopes down from the house and not the other way around....