here comes the flood!

Ady · Postby **Ady** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 20:18

....hi all-well as some of you know i live in witney,oxfordshire....yeah if you've been watchin the news our towns all over skynews!
bloody marooned aint i? my house is okay-but i got mates with 3 feet of water on the groundfloor- i cant get to a certain friends house this eve..

...here's a photo from a mates house round the corner from me:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=8179&id=623886203

check out these photo's-and thats only yesterday !!

clippa · Postby **clippa** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 20:29

I register with facebook for no man! Could you put a picture on http://imagevenue.com/ I want to see how wet your mates house is

brother abnego · Postby **brother abnego** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 21:34

clippa wrote:I register with facebook for no man!

Face? Book? Book? Face? Bovvered???

...I joined up, initially only to administer a bollocking to that student bedroom band who seem to think they can get away with calling themselves 'Cardiacs', then I saw that Meenie had been there first and delivered a classy little ass kicking, so I joined the proper Cardiacs facebook group...

...not posted owt yet though...

steve adams · Postby **steve adams** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 21:38

ady for some reason this image is not up,
i hope its going ok for you,
also for other people on here who know someone
who is flooded or are flooded themselves
i hope it is going ok for them too.

schlep · Postby **schlep** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 21:46

I found a few photos on the BBC news site - not of Witney but I get the erm, drift. Hope you're staying dry wherever you are.
Found this though:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6450309.stm
red fire coming out..etc

brother abnego · Postby **brother abnego** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 22:34

schlep wrote:Hope you're staying dry wherever you are.

...and I'd suggest carting all your electrical goods upstairs pronto......better safe than sorry...

(and put your Cardiacs memorabilia in a waterproof bag in the loft)

Ady · Postby **Ady** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 22:55

fortunatly i live at the top of a slope-but here's a photo from me mate just round the corner-its for all those who don't want to go on facebook for some reason.......

and a bridge just down the road from me is on the verge of collapse.

Postby **whippersnapper** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 23:39

This is scary stuff mate!! Jesus Christ that is some flood.... I bet those canoeing fellows are happy as a big muddafvcking larry..... That's one hell of a nice wild river.

Pet Lamb · Postby **Pet Lamb** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 00:05

Our thoughts should be with those who have lost unreplaceable things through flooding...and have a long time to go before things are 'back to normal'...

Postby **whippersnapper** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 01:05

you're so right.

clippa · Postby **clippa** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 03:08

Ady wrote:fortunatly i live at the top of a slope-but here's a photo from me mate just round the corner-its for all those who don't want to go on facebook for some reason.......

and a bridge just down the road from me is on the verge of collapse.

Woah, canoe time baby. I like those kind of pictures, I imagine I would enjoy that, so long as I was insured. I don't want to go on facebook because it's probably just another one of these all garnish and no dinner, "look how many virtual friends I've got", shoulder rubbing cvnt-fests that I sign up to despite myself on the strength of everyone and their ganny telling me how good they are, and end up reading the inane ramblings of some random dropped bollock in the middle of the night, suddenly coming to, thinking to myself "What the FVCK am I doing?" and deleting my account.

steve adams · Postby **steve adams** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:36

the only reason i joined facebook was
there is a in situ; chat board, and a jpg chat board
and as i do stuff with both i can find out info
if im away,
and add photos
also i do like the pop quiz

Ady · Postby **Ady** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:15

i went down last night after i put that photo up-was a bit surreal-the bridge and the street with it was completly flooded and gushing like crazy-this morning i went down and thank god its gone down alot-police let me through over the bridge and the street but the water still came to the top of me wellies after i got over the bridge-looked at in some of the windows of buildings and like pet said-it is horrible to see theres a little piano shop and all the piano'a are screwed- also all of these buildings are century's old.
a mate took a photo with me in the water-if i get the photo i'll bung it on here sometime.
also another part of witney what used to be a 20 foot wide river now's turned into about 80ft-all the surrounding villages are f**ked as well-kinda strange as alot of the roads into witney are flooded-so in a way we're a bit marooned..all very odd?!

Ady · Postby **Ady** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 13:56

i just been sent some photo's from a mate whose house was flooded-its gone right down now.....for the moment-you can see the watermarks on the wall-outside is still flooded but they got a shed load of sand bags stacked everywhere.

Meenie · Postby **Meenie** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:07

Gutted!