Oh.... Dear.

[sparkindarkness]

I am not naturally inclined to curse (despite many of the muses being willing to). I find my habit of very rarely swearing means that when I do swear it is far more effective. I am sorely tempted now.

3 days we've have 3 foot of water outside (remind me to vent spleen all over our council), trapped inside. The water has not receded an inch.

And it's raining again. Not showers. Heaving it down.

Worse, the drain which pulls all our water to the Humber is now overflowing and bursting it's bank. Worse, they are going to have to close the sluice gates on the drain because the Humber is tidal - and if they don't the tide will bring us MORE water.

They are now talking evacuation (which I'm not doing. If chaos is happening all around me it will happen in my HOME thank you. Even if the electrics do pack in I have my lovely books here and enough stored gubbins to last me until the apocalypse).

Ok, now I need to borrow Thor's Hammer and find Loki, he's got some 'splainin to do.

Comments

[elrohana.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I was just reading all the Beeb news pages about the various floods and now this. We're in North Leeds and haven't been affected at all, but I suspect if Thorpe Marsh power station goes down, we will be!

Shift your stuff upstairs now, before its too late, mate.

[elrohana.livejournal.com]

or maybe not as according to t'Intarweb it was closed in 1994. Why then is it a big deal on the Beeb news pages that the army are clearing floods there? El is confused. *off to investigate further*

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Hmmm because we don't know the full picture? Even if there are resever supplies to keep us all going when the plant goes down I bet the damage the water would do would cost a fortune

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

It's all upstairs (and that was hellish, I have too much valuable stuff). Ick, several substations have gone down near here

[tinimaus.livejournal.com]

Oy, veh. Sorry to hear that.

Are you ever going to bitch about sunny weather again?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Thanks

And yes. Yes I will. At length because I stand in defiance of fate, the gods and everything :) I'm just bloodyminded like that

[being-here.livejournal.com]

Well you did ask for a bad summer....

You obviously have a hotline to the gods

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

I'm going to start my own religion!

[meridae.livejournal.com]

Ah well, just think of all the good things the rainwater is doing to your hair.

Bwahahahahah.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

See, everything may be chaos and we may be evacuated and the power may go off, but I have wonderful hair *swoosh*

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Eek. That's some serious flooding. Does the weather forecast say anything yet about when it's supposed to stop?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

The rain is just scattered now but the drains are over loaded and blocked and afflicted by tides.... and more heavy rain is expected on saturday

[ephemera.livejournal.com]

good luck with the fortifications, sir.

(- has someone restrained your batty gran for her own protection?)

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Aye aye, we will build 'em high

Batty gran is, thank the gods, not in a flooded area, living on the top of a hill. She alternates between forgetting entirely about the flood and panicking madly. Thankfully we have relatives near her who can reeach her and calm her down

[speaks.livejournal.com]

While you're at it, could you express a desire to Higher Powers that I win the Lottery?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Only after I get my 20 happy incubi!

[speaks.livejournal.com]

When you dream, dream big.

Don't you have to commit a martydom to get 20 incubi... or was that something else.

[zero_pixel_count]

*lopsided grin* fairly sure storms aint generally considered to be Loki's province...

...although when the alternative is going and arguing with Odin, your plan suddenly sounds like a much better idea...

[snuck.livejournal.com]

lol. floods are fun ;)

Even Queenslands Gold Coast gets them. Often :P

Swift tips in protecting your property from damage if the waters look like threatening it...

Black plastic sheeting and sandbags are your friend. Sandbags can be doubled regular shopping bags even with sand. Create seals around doors and airvents and weep holes... just buy putting the plastic sheeting against them and then sandbags to hold in place. Unless there is a current, they should sit well. Towels or similar against doors on the inside can help stop water coming through too. DON"T break these seals until the water is gone. Sigh... the number of times I've shown up to flood jobs and people have had to open the door to show me what their back yard is really like. Dude... it was a swimming pool - you've just let it into your house - idiot.

Move furniture, unplug unnecessary eletcricals etc and move them too... up out of water's reach. Roll up rugs and stuff. Soft furnishings away.

It's all really common sense.

If they ask for evacuations it might be good to go. Things like sewage start to back up in these situations, or even worse... if you have septic tanks, they flood back out to ground level. (Plastic garbage bags over your shoes and legs make good temporary protection if you have to wade anywhere - very ugly, but a whole lot easier to throw away with nasty biols on them) Power/water etc might be cut from the areas too... deliberately to prevent further damage. And if you are one of very few refusing to leave, they might make you so they don't have to endanger themselves in the future if they have to realllly get you out.

Floods usually recede in a few hours, if not days, unless there is no where to drain to... or unless it keeps fricking raining.

Like Victoria and New South Wales here in Australia - we're suffering too right now... fifth low pressure in a fortnight, half of country south eastern australia is swimming at the moment :P

[snuck.livejournal.com]

but then, i'm imagining that sparkie doesnt' do black plastic, garbage bags or even *shudder* sandbags :P

*grin*

Hopefully you live several levels above ground level, and this all isn't your problem.

[makarov.livejournal.com]

and now you see why you should keep a B.O.B (Bug Out Bag) handy in case you DO have to evacuate