"Dave Liquorice" wrote

Bob Hobden wrote:

How are you all doing regarding flooding?

Not problem at all but if we had flooding the rest you you would be
in serious trouble being at 1400' on the side of a steep sided
valley.

But with the gales and driving rain the water get im anyway. Damp
patches in the plaster at several windows and puddle in utilty room
where it drips from the inside edge of the outside doors reveal. I
think the rain must get blow up under the flashing and over the top
of the slates of the porch. The sarking looks as if it goes up the
wall behind the vertical flashing but how far ... Water with a gale
behind it can drive up quite a way.

Here we are just a couple of hundred yards from the Thames,

A "slow response" river ... Have you found the online guageing
stations on the EA's
website?

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...ds/riverlevels
/136488.aspx?stationId=7268

Teddington Lock, I think the spikes are tidal influences, at least
they match those at Thames Tideway at
RIchmond:

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...ds/riverlevels
/136488.aspx?stationId=7393

Compare the overall gentle rise in level (ignoring the tidal effects)
with our local
river:

http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk...ds/riverlevels
/120691.aspx?stationId=8007

We seem to be on the edge of their maps so nothing local there for us I can
find. The Thames does react slowly both ways, it takes a long time to come
up and a similar long time to go down. The River Mole I used to fish you
could actually see it rising after rain.

Just had a Flood warning by phone and email "Imminent warning of flooding,
get valuables and pets upstairs etc etc.expect flooding similar to 2003"
which means we should be OK here, friends won't though, pictures on Facebook
show their garden is already part of the river. I blame the Flood Relief
Channel upstream, we didn't have this problem previously, well not since the
pictures I have of 1947.

As well as Chertsey Bridge B375 being closed I understand the busy Windsor
Road A308 across Runnymede Meadow is now shut as is the huge Runnymede
Hotel. There are traffic problems already all around this area as people use
unusual routes to try to get across the river and around the flooded roads
and it will get worse as the school run and rush hour starts. Am I glad I'm
retired!
--
Regards. Bob Hobden.
Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK