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Flooding!

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Defren

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It has poured down all day, and dogs being dogs (I have three little fluffy paws) they needed to go out. I have light grey stone tiles on the floor, and just got the floor cloth and mopped up the little paw prints. Tonight I went to mop the floor as just wiping all day it needed doing properly. I always keep my mop and bucket outside the back door and I went to pick it up - the bucket was full!! I then decided to brave the rain and have a look outside, the back is now flooded and it's still raining cats and dogs.

If I vanish for a while, you will know I have floated away.

I am in the NE what's it like where you are, are you flooding?
 
Hi Defren, can the dogs swim? Its rained horribly during the day today, but it eased off around 5pm and has just been windy since then. The roads are quite puddled but no flooding here in Bedfordshire.
 
Hi Fraddy, they love water and can swim (all three little terriers). The problem is, little dogs = little legs. I have checked the Met office, no flooding forecast here (when do they get things right though)? But, I do live on a bank, so that might be part of it. I just hope it stops soon, I don't keep a spare sand bag or two. :(
 
I live in the North West and when I looked out in the back garden this morning I was also shocked to find my mop bucket half full and a 4inch deep bowl that I put out there the other day was overflowing. Seems to have dried up a bit today though.
 
Sounds like you should consider giving the order to Splice the mainbrace Jo. A stiff drink then you wont care how much water is surrounding you.

Despite it's reputation Manchester, or at least area I live in, seems to have got off quite likely. Just seems to have drizzled all day much to the delight of our cat who loves nothing better than sitting in the middle of our patio watching the rain drip of his nose.

I hope none of our members is too badly effected by the heavy rain and winds we are due to get in the next 24hrs.
 
catza said:
Sounds like you should consider giving the order to Splice the mainbrace Jo. A stiff drink then you wont care how much water is surrounding you.

Despite it's reputation Manchester, or at least area I live in, seems to have got off quite likely. Just seems to have drizzled all day much to the delight of our cat who loves nothing better than sitting in the middle of our patio watching the rain drip of his nose.

I hope none of our members is too badly effected by the heavy rain and winds we are due to get in the next 24hrs.
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That sounds like a plan Jo. Problem is there is nothing here worth drinking to get into a squiffy state. Splicing the mainbrace will be next on the agenda if the rain doesn't stop, it's still pouring here. Clearing up after three pups once it stops raining is going to be fun - not!
 
We have now manned the lifeboats. The flooding in the NE is now causing major problems. Some homes have been evacuated, luckily not us. Schools are canceling all after school activities, and also working with reduced staff as they are struggling to get into work. Both my daughters were late for school due to school bus routes flooding. We live in a village and on a hill, the bottom of the hill is barely passable and the main route out of the village. Things are pretty dire at the moment, and the rain is still very heavy.
 
Yes flooded areas around here as well!!
Make sure you and yours stay safe, warm and dry do you hear?! Hope the situation gets better fast.
 
I'm in the Thames Valley above the river and now I'm remembering why we bought this house on TOP of the hill.
I'm so sorry for people at the bottom, whose homes get damaged. It must be heartbreaking.
Hana
 
I am so angry right now, if this wasn't a family forum, believe me this thread would be blue! My eldest daughter has to get two buses into school, she already has to leave home at 7:20am and has an exemplary time keeping record. Today, due to re routing of her buses, she was late for school. She has been 'warned' if she is late again, there will be consequences. Now, baring in mind the amount of staff who didn't make it into work, while she did all be it late, I am fizzing. She got home tonight, soaked to the skin and absolutely freezing, and really upset about this.

I have written a steaming letter to her head of year, who the hell do these people think they are? It's one thing being late for no reason, quite another due to an act of God. Perhaps the year head thinks that is who he is!!

Fuming isn't the word!
 
Thinking of anyone who is at risk of flooding. Hope you all keep safe and dry. My house is fairly high up from the road so not had any problems but I feel for anyone who has had their home flooded and all the heartache that goes with it :thumbup:
 
Defren said:
I am so angry right now, if this wasn't a family forum, believe me this thread would be blue! My eldest daughter has to get two buses into school, she already has to leave home at 7:20am and has an exemplary time keeping record. Today, due to re routing of her buses, she was late for school. She has been 'warned' if she is late again, there will be consequences. Now, baring in mind the amount of staff who didn't make it into work, while she did all be it late, I am fizzing. She got home tonight, soaked to the skin and absolutely freezing, and really upset about this.

I have written a steaming letter to her head of year, who the hell do these people think they are? It's one thing being late for no reason, quite another due to an act of God. Perhaps the year head thinks that is who he is!!

Fuming isn't the word!
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Oh thats awful, I would be fuming as well, poor kid, go make two mugs of lovely low carb hot chocolate with whipped cream on top, relax and enjoy, both of you and stay warm and dry, thats an order x x
 
Defren said:
I am so angry right now, if this wasn't a family forum, believe me this thread would be blue! My eldest daughter has to get two buses into school, she already has to leave home at 7:20am and has an exemplary time keeping record. Today, due to re routing of her buses, she was late for school. She has been 'warned' if she is late again, there will be consequences. Now, baring in mind the amount of staff who didn't make it into work, while she did all be it late, I am fizzing. She got home tonight, soaked to the skin and absolutely freezing, and really upset about this.

I have written a steaming letter to her head of year, who the hell do these people think they are? It's one thing being late for no reason, quite another due to an act of God. Perhaps the year head thinks that is who he is!!

Fuming isn't the word!
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What is wrong with people these days? Are they so busy ticking the right boxes on their forms and inputting data on their computers that they've lost all contact with the living, breathing human being?

I'd be fuming too if I were you. How stupid and insensitive people are. If I were you, I'd keep her off school for the rest of the week and tell them she has a high temperature and flu symptoms due to hanging around in the rain waiting for buses to and from school.

Consequences indeed! No wonder our young people give up hope! They aren't appreciated for their efforts at all. :x
 
Thanks Judith and Grace. Sadly, Tuesday's and Thursday's are fasting days, and if I fulfilled your order Judith, I would feel worse later. Said daughter however, is full of Whittards hot chocolate, warm as toast, all full up and much happier.

What makes this all the worse, I checked her attendance and late records, as they are on her school reports, the last time she was late was last year, even then it was an authorised late. If my memory serves me right, as she is mildly asthmatic is was a review with the GP to see how she was doing.

She is also in her final year, each evening except Wednesday's she stays behind to do extra work because she wants a really high mark in her Baccalauriate so after collage she will have an extra tool so she can pick her own university. She never goes out in the evenings bar a Wednesday when she attends Police Cadets. Even at weekends, she is still not a girl who wants to be out late, she is always home by around 8:30 at the latest, at her own choosing. So this really has cut her, and I am still fuming, but will wait to see what the head of year has to say tomorrow.

Added to this, the double gates that are at the back of the house and lead into the lane have swollen in all the rain and are almost impossible to open, and we have a large flat roofed extension on the back of the house that is beginning to pool water quite badly. I just hope the drainage isn't blocked or that's going to be more hassle and expense.

What a day!!
 
Defren said:
Thanks Judith and Grace. Sadly, Tuesday's and Thursday's are fasting days, and if I fulfilled your order Judith, I would feel worse later. Said daughter however, is full of Whittards hot chocolate, warm as toast, all full up and much happier.

What a day!!
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Don't stress over the school nitwits ... see to your priorities first ... yourself, your daughter, hot chocolate and the water on your flat roof. Forget the rest, there's only one of you and some nitwit at the school with an authority complex isn't worth expending precious calories on! Good luck with your roof. :thumbup:
 
Gosh, you are an amazingly strong woman, if it was me I would be tucking into a very creamy, buttery cauli mash or a bucket full of IanD porridge, mot definitely comfort eating!!

Your daughter ought to be praised, she is a good kid, bright and conscientious, a real credit to you, I hope the school is going to apologise tomorrow. You really do wonder sometimes what goes on in some teachers heads :roll: :roll:

I feel so sorry for both of you, lets hope you will all be safe, I think the weather is improving from tomorrow.
Thinking of you x x
 
WhitbyJet said:
Gosh, you are an amazingly strong woman, if it was me I would be tucking into a very creamy, buttery cauli mash or a bucket full of IanD porridge, mot definitely comfort eating!!

Your daughter ought to be praised, she is a good kid, bright and conscientious, a real credit to you, I hope the school is going to apologise tomorrow. You really do wonder sometimes what goes on in some teachers heads :roll: :roll:

I feel so sorry for both of you, lets hope you will all be safe, I think the weather is improving from tomorrow.
Thinking of you x x
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Thanks Judith, not sure I am strong, but I am bloody minded, and determined. So, when I say Tuesday's and Thursday's are fasting days, nothing sways me. I think it's that determination that made me finish the ND. So many times I wanted to crack and give in, but the bloody mindedness took over. Have just told Mr Defren about the school prat - oops!

Yeah, she is a good kid, and for me it's that fact that makes this all the more unfair and unjust. Anyway, he can deal with me from here on in, and leave my girl alone, bloody bully!
 
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