Floods in cumbria:

[Sean fsy]

i live in workington where the bridges have collapsed and the police man was swept away. cockermouth is about 7 miles away. Absolute devastation here. crippled the complete area. the policemans body was found about 15 miles away on Allonby beach, cant beleive it what taken that far in a couple of hours. There Should be plenty of work for me for the next few years i would say.
These pics were taken from my dads back garden:

 

[White Room]

I heard that Kendal was affected, thought that was Dougs neck of the woods.

That is going to take time to clear up

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

hang in there boys!! we are all thinking of you , that poor policemans family RIP

 

[doug boardley]

I was in Center Parcs (Penrith) this week, but driving back to Kendal there was a helluva lot of land under water. Staff member at Center Parcs said that 150 staff from west cumbria didn't make it in to work today, which was a blow, as friday is the busiest day of the week (changeover day). Some of my Facebook friends have posted pics of River Kent (through Kendal) I'll see if I can post them

 

[CJ]

Very bad.............Its getting worse.

The doom mongers will be having a field day with the global warming/Climate stuff.

Mind you..........somebody HAS to be right. The climate has defo changed since I was a little-un :yikes:

 

[doug boardley]

 

[Sean fsy]

Years and years ago when the graveyard flooded people say that because the coffins have trapped air in them that they rasie to the surface. the coffins then went down the river and ended up at the docks.:yikes:

 

[doug boardley]

this was from yesterday, 5 years ago, the River Kent was even higher, (got pics somewhere, on my other pc I think!)

 

[White Room]

There still building on areas that were flood plains:ban:

 

[sherbert]

saw it on the news tonight im glad im well away from it i hope everyone gets back to normal as soon as they can if thats possible

 

[doug boardley]

I'll get photies of "normal" levels from same places to compare

 

[brian c]

i wouldnt be walking on those bridges ,thats for sure.

 

[doug boardley]

 

[DHTiling]

where is that doug..?

 

[doug boardley]

that's Miller Bridge in Kendal Dave, one of 3 very similar stone built bridges through the town, and probably gonna get inspected when the river levels drop

 

[DHTiling]

So is that what the river is like now..?...:yikes:

 

[poynton phil]

Looks terrible, saw on tv that some people who got flooded out 2 yrs ago (Hull i think) are still waiting for remedial work, and are still living in caravans. Really glad i live on a hill.

 

[doug boardley]

it had dropped quite a bit, but it's been hammering down again today, so it'll be well up again with the ground being saturated

 

[doug boardley]

as you can see, the Kent has dropped a lot, but it is still in Flood believe it or not!

 

[doug boardley]

forecast v.heavy rain tomorrow and Friday, so should see levels rise sharply again:yikes::yikes::yikes:

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

yes we had rain there again today in wales it's depressing

 

[doug boardley]

river kent nearly back to normal levels, but will probably rise with all the melt water l ol

 

[doug boardley]

the pic I posted (just now) is from roughly the same place as the third pic in the original post