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TRAFFIC WARNING: DOXEY RD & SAINSBURY'S
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cookie_monster
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ta daaaaaaa!dirtybobby said:
im ok folks, ive got food, water, and cigs! ive also got 2 inches of water in my cellar, but thats no different from the rest of the time!
it took me 5 hours to get back from work on monday (although granted i did have to have 2 pit stops- 1 for an hour to get sausage and mash in the pub for my tea and a hot chocolate further up west street).
got home about 8.45 to find i had no power, but ive got a gas oven so i invited my neighbours round for food and to cook defrosting food and we played monopoly by candlelight eating oven chips, garlic bread and naan.
yesterday, got told not to bother coming to work so went to the pub in town to charge my phone. but my electric came back on last night so i was able to watch x-files and csi- woohoo!
today, back in work but nothing much is working properly. i had to have a bath this morning coz my electric went off just as i was about to jump in the shower...d'oh!
anyway, here's some piccies for you (not mine), but the pics between 14 and 19 are of holme lane and hillsborough corner at the end of my road. one of my mates lives near the ground and he's got a foot of water throughout the ground floor of his house! eeek!
hope you guys are all ok in stafford, bobby, if you get stuck, you can always come round to mine.
x
gon2seed
(and me! - Ed)
Glad you are still above water Cookie!
We have only been on one Bovine related call so far. Cannock Boat and their swift water specialists rounded up some cows at Baswich in their boat, while we acted as safety officers!
Looks (touch wood) as if the waters may be relenting. Traffic is still mad however.
We have only been on one Bovine related call so far. Cannock Boat and their swift water specialists rounded up some cows at Baswich in their boat, while we acted as safety officers!
Looks (touch wood) as if the waters may be relenting. Traffic is still mad however.
Toble
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Queensway appears to be higher than it was at 2amgon2seed said:
A fare a Rising Brook to Hixon today involved going via Acton Trussel, Milford and Wolsely Bridge to avoid the traffic chaos.
edit: my photos of the town this morning are here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/toble/sets/72157600515101744/
Have all normal road laws been abanded for the day? i have just walked in to town, there is cars parked the wrong way on one way streets!gon2seed said:
and then i was crossing the one way road by the police station when a woman nearly ran the wife over coming the wrong was though a closed road. Bloody hooligan
any one seen the weather for the next few days?
I think the flooding on Queensway is not the same as that from the Sow. It is from the Kingsmead Marsh which is fed by the Sandon Brook and Pearl Brook which then goes into the Sow. It's part of the stuff that stops the Sow getting even worse because the Marsh can absorb alot of water and release it slowly (just like Doxey Marsh does and Radford Meadows is beginnning to do for the Penk).
The pressure charts for the weekend look even worse than those that caused the flooding in the first place. Where do you buy sand bags from?
The pressure charts for the weekend look even worse than those that caused the flooding in the first place. Where do you buy sand bags from?
The flooding in the town and surrounding areas has increased greatly in stafford ever since
1) Sainsburys was built and the river shallowed under the bridges that carry car park traffic
2) A feeble attempt to relieve the poor folk of Sandon Road's flooding nightmare (new culverting)
3) The extension of the Tollgate Industrial estate eat up a large chunk of the peat area which traditionally acted like a sponge in times of adverse weather
4) The pointless and misguided idea that by narrowing the River Sow on its entrance to Victoria Park Future flooding would be alleviated wrong!!!!!
5) Poor upkeep of the River Sow i.e. lack of dredging, no weed removal
Just a few reasons that stafford is so flooded
But hey what do the normal members of the public know eh?
I'm sort of glad I escaped Stafford now and live in Smoke On Stench
PIKE
1) Sainsburys was built and the river shallowed under the bridges that carry car park traffic
2) A feeble attempt to relieve the poor folk of Sandon Road's flooding nightmare (new culverting)
3) The extension of the Tollgate Industrial estate eat up a large chunk of the peat area which traditionally acted like a sponge in times of adverse weather
4) The pointless and misguided idea that by narrowing the River Sow on its entrance to Victoria Park Future flooding would be alleviated wrong!!!!!
5) Poor upkeep of the River Sow i.e. lack of dredging, no weed removal
Just a few reasons that stafford is so flooded
But hey what do the normal members of the public know eh?
I'm sort of glad I escaped Stafford now and live in Smoke On Stench
PIKE
Scuttlingb
Jacquie
And to add insult to injury the parking attendants were slapping tickets on the cars left in Sainsbury's car park! 
