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we consider ourselves lucky, as we live on a hill. The winds here in Pembrokeshire reached 93.6mph on the bridge over the Cleddau, and it has been a bit scary, but thankfully no damage for us as yet. Friends haven't been so lucky, especially a family in Cornwall who have had their home wrecked (and David Cameron visited, to add insult to injury!!).

Lots of flooding along the Thames in South Bucks/North Berks. Cookham is completely cut off again, and Marlow is flooded. I've not seen the Thames this high before and I've lived round here for more than 30 years.

Longridge, the local Scout activity centre, is completely underwater. They were asking for help on Facebook on Monday as they needed to take the floorboards up in their newly built accommodation block on Monday to try and save the wood before the water came in.

The trains on the mainline from Reading to Paddington are disrupted at Maidenhead. The railway line is a little way from the river but the ground water is bubbling up and has flooded the line. The signals are inoperative and so they are using railway workers with flags to signal to the trains on that part of the track. They are only able to run 4 trains per hour instead of the usual 20.

The company hubby works for has a compound next to the river at Cookham where they store vans before they work on them. They've been moving those out since Monday as the water was up to the sills.

Lots of flooding out towards Oxford and Reading too. Pangbourne-on-Thames is now Pangbourne-in-Thames and is twinned with Atlantis.

Loads of roads closed again, and river crossings closed. Causing a bit of a traffic nightmare getting to work and back. Luckily we live on top of a hill, so we've not had any flooding anywhere near the house. Can't imagine how awful it would be to have that happen to you.

here in Essex we've got trees down in the park, think my conservatory's gonna be ripped of the way it's shuddering and creaking! I hope those in the flooded areas and where there have been power cuts stay safe!

What an awful time you are having over there. Stay safe everyone.

We are in the midlands and it seems to have calmed down, for the moment. The pub is in danger of being breached and some friends gardens are flooded and the canal boaters are just holding their breath. So far, things here are not as bad as they were last year

Ballerina x

Tai Chi class cut short after village hall (and village) blacked out. We carried on for a while in the dark, an interesting exercise. There were some big puddles across the roads on the way home that had not been there a mere hour earlier. But compared to the South Cumbria is getting off lightly this time around. So far power on at home.

We have kept power, just. Don't know what daylight will reveal.

Lights have flickered on and off a few times but no loss of power. The wind does seem to have abated somewhat here thank goodness. Keep safe everyone.

A comment from a friend 'I can see next doors conservatory. That suggests I no longer have fence panels'.

Thinking of those who had to leave their homes, or in danger of. Wake up UK gov - shame on you! Govs and communities in low lying developing countries have been developing climate change adaption projects for years. Time to revise the priorities.

Gets me going ....

Lizbean

Our weather seems to have calmed a bit- though as weather goes it hasn't been too bad i guess, we don't live near water. risked going into Manchester to meet a friend today(on the train) fortunately didn't have any problems, but it is not a main line.

Saw it on telly! My heart goes out to any members flooded. I guess they wouldn't be posting on the forum at such a time. I can't imagine it!

[Debs]

Have heard from family and friends, sounds horrendous. We used to live in Gloucester in a flood prone area near the Severn, they are expecting more flooding in the area.

The weather is all over the place. I note that the UK's weather is particularly unreliable(!) due to there being five different weather systems and air flows that impact. Not much consolation to those being affected by it though.
Have to agree lizziebean, we do need to think about adapting to what is happening, but human beings being what they are, don't generally do anything until they see immediate impacts. We aren't very good at planning ahead, especially when political cycles are so short.
Don't get me started either..........

Any politicians on tv have been thoroughly useless. But David Cameron saying they will spend more money - but where from Dave?? You've cut so much from local government already that that is what has helped to cause the problem in the first place ... And this has been predicted for years - we all remember seeing those maps with possible flooding scenarios.

That water coming through the keyhole is the stuff of my nightmares.

I heard about this on the news. I hope people are ok and safe.