Washout

[ganimede]

As some of you may have heard, we got quite a bit of rain yesterday in the North West. About 100mm of rain fell, which is approximately one month's worth of rain in 24 hours. A river close by burst its banks and both people and livestock had to be evacuated at a very early hour this morning. Thankfully it didn't reach where I live so I was okay

Comments

[ftmichael]

That is an awful lot of water in 24 hours! I hope the plants are all okay. I'm so glad you weren't in the area that had to be evacuated and that hopefully things will start to dry out and rivers will recede back to where they should be, even with some more rain tonight.

[polkadotsquared]

Bloody hell, that's amazing, piddly little rain gauge would have had no chance...

We had an insane storm yesterday afternoon, big 20sec bursts of thunder and lightning flashes all over the place. It doesn't seem to be terribly floody here though despite the rain, although the river is a little high.

Going on a sea paddle steamer tomorrow round the coast a bit and over to N.Ire so hopefully the weather won't be too bad.

[bella_cheval]

Yikes!!!

[ellierachael]

The rain has been crazy! Glad the flooding didn't affect your area