Blogs on flood & rain damage

I'M DRAINED.....

Flooding update

Hurrah, action at last-well, nearly! One of the parish councillors popped in this afternoon to let me and my neighbours know...

FLASH, BANG, WALLOP !!!

Photos re. my previous blog ... ... the amazing electrical storm. The rain and hail came down in torrents. The thunderstorm...

is it wet with you

i am behind with my digging this photo will show why i had to stop it is probably worse than it looks as fast as i dug the...

My New Garden

I have never done a blog before so apologies now for any errors. We moved into a new build in Oct 2011, its been hard work...

Hotham Park.

My son took these yesterday at Hotham Park in Bognor Regis. Some parts were flooded and others ok....

CATASTROPHE!

It was the worst flooding in the West Country in forty years, so the News said. Yes, I know-we got flooded yesterday! It...

There's a hole in my garden ...

I'm having some work done in my garden at the moment. When I moved in earlier this year, the border was the thing I most...

Getting to the ' ROOT ' of the problem

And what a problem it was ! Some of you will be aware that when we returned from out holiday we were told that our gutter...

Southport Flower show

Went to southport Flower Show on Thursday, did not take any photos as there was not nothing hardly to take photos of as Wednesday...

Nutty... gardening in the rain

Is anyone else as nutty as I am? Digging and planting in the rain.. lol. Soooo fed up with all this rain and wind but decided...

Just had a drop too much!!!!!!

This is what I came home to today:- It has stopped raining now, but think we had that much that the fish pond overflowed...

Flood warnings

BBC news gives more flood alerts They include a link for the Environment Agency; one can check the risk by putting in a river...

Flooded not good:((((

Its 11.30pm and we are cleaning the aftermath of being flooded tonight.Unbelievable the rain which came down just like a...

Land Drain.

Well, I finally got round to it. Putting in a land drain to "hopfully" remove exess water that runs in from public space...

Flash floods and storms

Unfortunately we have been having the same sort of weather in Brussels. My cellar was flooded with half a meter of filthy...

Rain Rain Go Away.

For the last three days its done nothing but rain, not just normal rain but very heavy, although i know Manchester, Salford...

Paddling Anyone?

This is a picture of what it's like in the garden every time we get either snow, torrential or prolonged rainfall! This part...

floods again

well i think we have had it all now ............. one of the rds , which we use a lot .............. is waist deep under...

Eden after the flood

Hi, we thought we would take a walk over to the Eden Project at the weekend to renew our annual tickets. The site has been...

the rain falls on the just and the unjust!

Yesterday spent a couple of hours lifting a brick path for relaying as the weeds had eventually taken over during the summer. A...

FLOODS AT ROTHER VALLEY COUNTRY PARK

These are just a few photos we took of various areas of Rother Valley Country Park, which is 5 minutes from us by car, taken...

Disaster for the Damson Tree

The howling gales we experienced recently along with driving rain resulted in more tree damage.I came out one morning to...

Disaster Strikes!

Well at last it rained heavily and it has done the garden a whole world of good...but it also did this.... My poor runner...

Avatar changes !!!!!!!.

Don`t know whether you`ve noticed but yesterday I had a mad moment and changed my avatar pic, Decided it wasn`t really appropiate...

A very bedraggled Sunday

The first thing I heard this morning was the sound of heavy rain and it has continued all day..... Oh...

My 'boggy' garden

Hi I'm new to this site-came across it accidentally. Let me describe what my garden is like. My house backs onto a field....

my poor pond, what can i do

just been out to check my pond after all the heavy rain lastnight, well i could cry i couldnt believe what i saw, the rain...

Lots of rain again this morning so.....

.... I checked to see if I had webbed feet yet! It's March tomorrow so surely the weather must improve soon. Until...

Had enough of the rain now! An End-of-Summer Weekend in Oz!

After waiting to get into the garden for weeks and weeks over the summer ... I managed it finally last weekend! The heat,...

poor mr frog

hi all ,been busy up at the allotment the last week,putting top soil and compost in beds ready for spuds going in, lots...

Ground clearance for bog garden

Hi There is still a foot of snow lying outside, and that which melted at midday has become sheet ice. So with the light...

Snows melting & Flooding My Poor Borders :(

Sunshine here today & temps are between 5-6 so the Snows Melting away Its nice to see the Grass again :) But Poor Borders...

A 'FLOODY GARDEN' VERSE....

For Jacque and TT (not sure which section it will fit!!) Reflections on a flood! Verse inspired by the Hippopotamus song...

Water water every which where…..

The Sussex low weald is solid clay so with the rain we’ve had this, many of our minor roads have turned into streams, and...

Wet, Wet, Wet....

No-not the pop group but my garden. After days of heavy rain and a night of endless torrential rain my garden this morning...

Storm Damage!

We have all been talking about how the weather is causing flooding and damage on the East coast of the States, and in Great...

More Rain

Well the water we had was...was....starting to receed...but in 3 days we have had another 5 inches of rain...with almost...

Rain!

We had some rain this week….about 5 inches or so in less than 2 days. It has left us with standing water again! I thought...

Above the Water

Trying to defeat the water problems we have had in the past, we elected to use pots, buckets (anything to keep the plants...

Block Paving

Just a quicky to you all.............................. Block paving is something a lot of gardeners and householders use...

IN SHOCK From Site Of Flower Pot Person !!!!!!!!!

Went into My Greenhouse 2check on Plants/Seedlings ect & 2 see if i could get in without my Wellies On Due 2 it being...

flood

across the road from us ther is a flood in front of the houses & my grass seed is flooting.

MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!

It was sunny this morning, and I knew that I had to view the devastation 'post floods'. Henry came with me as we went to...

SUBMARINE OR SWIMMING PLANTS!!!

Well, fingers crossed had absolutely NO effect on the weather, unfortunately. I had heard the rain in the night, and went...

Rain again - hope everyone is alright

As the rain comes down again and the flood warnings are put out for us on the path of the Thames my thoughts go out to all...