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rogerzilla

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The flood
« on: 19 July, 2009, 01:27:08 pm »
Just before the M25 between Chalfont St Peter and West Hyde.  I think the CTC was formed to campaign for the improvement of roads like this.



It was above pedal level, but we tiptoed round the kerbstones.
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Mike J

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Re: The flood
« Reply #1 on: 19 July, 2009, 01:34:22 pm »
It must have been bad, its washed all the colour from your photograph  ;D
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rogerzilla

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Re: The flood
« Reply #2 on: 19 July, 2009, 06:22:32 pm »
Just before the unofficial tip for West London - which now has a little fly-tipping sign.  No white goods this time, but a few sofas and a very large pile of leylandii which they hadn't even bothered to dump off the road.
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red marley

Re: The flood
« Reply #3 on: 01 January, 2013, 05:11:49 pm »
Spent New Year in Oxford this week. The park around the back of Pitt Rivers Museum is looking a little wetter than usual. Christchurch meadow is also under several feet of water at the moment. It's good to know this bit of Oxford has "nice" floods rather than the horrible smelly sort you get around Didcot.



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mattc

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Re: The flood
« Reply #4 on: 01 January, 2013, 05:22:16 pm »
<waves to Jo>

Can't comment on the smell - all the flooding is in Abingdon and Oxford  :smug:
So I've got no pictures either, sorry.

But we DID see the revamped Pitt Rivers in mid-December, it's great!
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Wobbly John

Re: The flood
« Reply #5 on: 01 January, 2013, 05:35:33 pm »
Five miles West of where I live, are the Great Ouse washes. Currently 4 ft deep, 1/2 mile wide and 22 miles long (Rode out there at dusk today):



This road has been closed since early November - I rode back from the pub on the other side on the last night it was open.

Good opportunity for some photos of the wide Fenland sky:

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clarion

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Re: The flood
« Reply #6 on: 01 January, 2013, 06:45:52 pm »
The sea wants it back.
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tiermat

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Re: The flood
« Reply #7 on: 01 January, 2013, 06:53:35 pm »
I am waiting for phanta to post the pics she got today...
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Re: The flood
« Reply #8 on: 01 January, 2013, 07:05:52 pm »
Quote from: jo on 01 January, 2013, 05:11:49 pm
Spent New Year in Oxford this week. The park around the back of Pitt Rivers Museum is looking a little wetter than usual. Christchurch meadow is also under several feet of water at the moment. It's good to know this bit of Oxford has "nice" floods rather than the horrible smelly sort you get around Didcot.
There's helpful quantitative data on the depth of water on the Oxford floodplain maintained by one of the senior rowers:
http://www.atm.ox.ac.uk/rowing/river.html

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Ian H

Re: The flood
« Reply #9 on: 01 January, 2013, 08:44:21 pm »
View across Somerset Levels fields.
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Ian H

Re: The flood
« Reply #10 on: 01 January, 2013, 08:48:25 pm »
Pumping flood water into an already full river Parret.
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