I hope our UKCS friends who live in the area under the Red Alert (risk to life) during Storm Babet are safe. And thinking of fellow campers in Aberdeenshire, Angus, Perth etc who will have had to evacuate due to the risk of flooding or who are contemplating a scary drive in high winds to somewhere less affected.
A bit windy and wet here in N.E. Aberdeenshire, but no real problems. A few trees down but nothing we're not used to. No power cuts this time.
We've got an old house with solid stone walls and we hardly notice what the weather is like outside - unless it 'whistles' in the chimney.
Forecast for showers this weekend, but hopefully better next week.
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Just raining here. We were going to go to the Battle of Edgehill (1642) reenactment by the Sealed Knot which is held on the nearest weekend anniversary at Kineton Warwickshire where I grew up. Decided to cancel as it looks as if it will be wet.
Going away on Monday to the Kent/Sussex border instead.
Hopefully everyone in the affected area is ok. Please take care.
In Shropshire we have had very heavy rain starting early evening which has eased now. A bit gusty.
I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't flood warnings for River Severn nearby. We live on much higher ground.
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Was it in 2007 that there were very bad floods on the Severn? We went to Ironbridge not long afterwards and were talking to a man who had a house a long way up the bank. Unbelievably it had flooded his house.
We are very lucky here as we tend not get the worst of weather. We live on the outskirts of a village and we are much higher than the village centre, so if we had flood water round our door the high street would probably be under about 10 feet of water! There are two rivers that flow through the village, one of which has boats on it, but they are both very well controlled by sluices. We have lived here 31 years and have only ever known the navigable river come over its banks once and that was only by a few inches. The sluices had jammed. The water still didn't come over the kerbs in the high street, although the boatyard was affected.
I hope everyone is ok in the worst affected areas, we will be thinking of you.
My experience of camping in bad weather with Storm Katia over 10 years ago that resulted in a collapsed tent (Khyam Freelander) still haunts me!
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Rural Suffolk is badly flooded mainly from rainwater running off of from the fields due to lack of ditch maintenance over the years.
People ignoring requests to stay home have ended up abandoning their cars.
Yes it's certainly wet.
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Quote: Originally posted by Mrs. Bonce on 20/10/2023
We seem to be in the dry bit in between Suffolk and Warwickshire. You could see it quite clearly on the weather maps earlier.
Wet here today but nothing out of the ordinary. Just an average rainy October day. Saw the situation in Suffolk on Look East earlier. That was not normal.
Just seen the horrendous scenes from “up country” horrible for those involved. ☹️
Not really anymore than a normal wet, breezy October here in Devon, not stopped me going anywhere or doing anything in safety.
Devon is a very hilly county and we are in an elevated position on the edge of Dartmoor, which rises up onto open moorland. The catchment where we are is drained by four spate rivers, Mardle, Holybrook, Deanburn and River Dart, so runs off the Moor very efficiently…..Normally! Although if we get flooded, there is a huge chunk of Devon under water!