In article , Sue & Bob Hobden
writes

More worrying for us are the floods that are creeping ever nearer. Lots of
roads closed all round here and they have started evacuating some people.
R.Thames is still rising (Sun 5th Noon) and it's already the highest I've
ever seen, and I've just noticed the water is coming up through the road
drains in the road next to ours.
Friend in Staines, quite far from the river, says it's coming up through a
neighbours lawn (underground stream?) and a local ditch, and has flooded
their road, the council are issuing sandbags to them all.


We have about 2cm. of settled snow and temperature is hovering around or
just below O C. Rain, snow and cold winds have eased off today (Sun)
giving way to some welcome sunshine. We have escaped flooding, though a
lot of surface water has collected on the roads and in fields and
gardens (our holding is only 5m above sea level). It remains to be seen
now how many early new shoots and buds will be damaged by the cold snap,
but in past years most of them have either survived intact or have begun
to grow again later on.
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Alan & Joan Gould - North Lincs.