Flooded river

[wongkk]

Well, it happens each year:  the flood plain is flooded! These pictures are taken in the morning on my cycle ride to work.  I was a bit later this morning and caught the sunrise.  As the sky was reasonably clear, even the pre-sunrise dawn showed the extent of the water, which is pretty much an inland sea at present.

Comments

[brotherskeeper1]

So much flooding! I hope no one's home has flooded.

Your photos are very much like a place near me. I know in your photos that there are fields underwater. I remember you posting photos last year of how beautiful the field were later in the summer.

But for now, these photos show the extent of the flooding.

The flooding occurs because the road is about 15 feet higher than the fields.

Is this the reason this area floods?

[wongkk]

I'm afraid the floods have been fairly serious: two major roads into the city closed, two people drowned and some homes/businesses flooded. It is a quiet menace until your storms and tornadoes but bad enough if you are affected. I'm lucky enough to be on the other side of the city which is on higher ground

[brotherskeeper1]

I am sad to hear of the lives lost and homes flooded. Roads closed and even businesses flooded. I hope the water does not rise.

You speak of tornadoes; that can happen any time, but usually in spring is the worst time and the most storms. I pray that we do not have a bad tornado season! April May and June are the worst.

Can you sill bike to work on that path?

[wongkk]

The water level has fallen a little since last week (when I took the photos) but it all depends on the rain; if we have more rain, the flooding will stay about the same.

Yes, the path is still dry, thank you, so it takes me to work every day :=)

[bugackt]

Hope the flood won't fill the roads too. I find the fifth photo beautiful... if only it isn't flood!

Be safe there!

[wongkk]

The river did get into the roads so we have had two major routes into the city closed. The congestion on the other routes was very bad last week.

The fifth photo - yes, the light and the colours were just a nice contrast to the dark shapes of the trees in the dawn. It was exactly that time when the sun is not yet up above the horizon but there is enough light to provide a cold blue colour and to make a shine on the water.

I'm fine, thanks. Happily I live in the north of the city; the flooding is mostly in the south and west. It is nothing compared to the torrential rain and typhoons that you have in SE Asia but, because it is less common, we are woefully unprepared for the consequences.

Thank you for visiting here!

[khiemtran]

I used to live on a flood plain, and the first two pictures bring back memories of waking up as a child and seeing water everywhere, where normally there was grass.

[wongkk]

Hello! I am the opposite - my childhood was spent in a hilly region where the water stayed in the valleys and never came near the house or roads!

There is something particularly bleak about a temperate, deciduous climate and flooding in the winter - not even any green leaves to remind us of better weather! I imagine that there are a lot of little animals flooded out of their normal riverside holes so, if you live nearby, probably there are rats and voles and weasels and moles all looking for a new home!

[puddleshark]

Footpaths turned to webbed-feet paths... *sighs*

I'm glad it finally stopped raining long enough for you to take some pictures of the watery/melancholy January landscape. Maybe now it will start drying up?

[wongkk]

Did you see that sunrise was bang on 0800h this morning? We're tilting in the right direction.

Y, you will need stilts to walk that particular path at the moment. The broken fence has a supported stile board on the lowest of the three "rungs" of the fence i.e. below the current water line. The area is quite popular with early morning joggers, dog-walkers and fishermen so they must be finding alternative sites for their activities at present.

[gothicdragon752]

(HULLO! Remember me?!)

That sure is a lot of water! And I thought Fareham was pretty badly flooded. Hope it doesn't get any further and onto your cycle path!

How long does it usually take for all that to drain away?

[wongkk]

Well, hello there! (I recently went through the GA birthday card list for 2014 and removed you!) I hope that things are well - it's very nice to see you here.

Oxford hasn't had a particularly enjoyable time: two major roads into the city closed, two people drowned and some homes/businesses flooded. There are no obvious nice deep valleys to entice the water away, that's the problem so it will take a few weeks for the levels to recede - probably a month or 5 weeks, if we don't get too much rain. What I really don't want is a freeze to turn the standing water into ice!

Hope you, family and animals are all doing well. I've continued my Shakespearean ventures: saw Kenneth Branagh as Macbeth in Manchester and David Tennant as Richard II at the Barbican (both wonderful!).

[gothicdragon752]

Ouch. To be honest, I'm only here because my new community decided to try functioning on Livejournal...

People drowned?! Don't remember hearing that on the news! That's terrible. Here's hoping the weather stays relatively warm then!

I suppose it also takes longer to drain away because you're so far from the Sea?

Same to you! It's good to see that even after all this time, you haven't changed!
I'm going to see Coriolanus at the end of the month. Just the streamed version in the Cinema because all the tickets sold out before I got a chance to get them T:
But other than that, all my money's gone into Cricket :'D

[wongkk]

Yep - we had a guy tip off his mobility scooter on the tow path (and drowned) and a cyclist fell off a submerged road (and drowned - I'm not sure how he managed this but I guess he must have banged his head on the way down or got caught up in a strong current).

Y, we have no sea to tip it all into and the land (bog!) is pretty saturated.

Nope, I don't change much - and hopefully any changes are for the better!

Cricket? @_@ Well, Hampshire's a good county for cricket, I suppose! Happy New Year!