So lately the weather in our region has been insane. First of all we got caught by storm Ciara, which bought us quite a bit of rain, but mostly winds for a 3 day period resulting in our work schedule changing drastically. A few emergency fence repairs to do including this one in my old home town of Ross-on-wye. The old panel fencing had completely collapsed and was lay on the client's lawn. After examining what was left of the old posts, it was apparent that this fence should have been replaced years back. We replaced the panel fencing with a much nicer and stronger closeboard fence. A much more expensive and labour intensive option. But a much better solution.
As the clear up and repairs from storm Ciara were being carried out, warnings of another storm named Dennis was on its way in from the Atlantic ocean. Local flood warnings were out and over a 2 day period Ross-on-wye had 110mm of rain in a 48hour period. The average for the entire month of February is 78mm, and we had 140% of that in just 2 days. Localised flooding, and road disturbances were to be expected, but what wasn’t expected, even by the experts was what came in the few days after. The river wye rose to a level never seen before. According to local radio, and various websites, all of the records of the water level of the wye date back to the early 1800s, and the highest ever peak was slightly over 6m above the norm. No definitive numbers have been released yet, but 7.5m is the number that is floating about the Internet as I type this. there were a lot of homes and businesses effected, some that have never been affected before.
This picture is of the A40 between Ross on wye, and Monmouth. It had to be shut completely. The flood waters have never got up to this road before.
On my drive home only today, I managed to take my normal route for the first time in over a week, although the damage to the roads really did shock me.
We have currently started a new job and although this was not effected from the flood waters, the saturation is very apparent. Our dumpers are struggling on the soil conditions, and also our digger was sliding about.
All we need now is some dry weather to help all this rain soak in, and the river levels to drop. However.... a 3rd storm is on its way!! The met office are saying it’s nothing as bad as the first 2, but it’s the last thing needed at the moment.
I’ll leave you with some pictures taken off the Ross on line Facebook page of the disruption caused.
https://www.facebook.com/rossonlinenews/
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Looks like you got it rougher than we did nover to the west.
Stay safe, and stay dry (if you can).
wow thats terrible. growing up, i experienced flooding a couple of times. as a kid, it was fun, but not the aftermath, because the flood was always with mud. poor parents I got.
stay dry!
The worst is over now here in the UK. More rain on its way next week, but noting too bad. All should be fine from now on.