West Lancashire is sinking....

[Gardenmac]

Seriously heavy rain from around 4 this morning and by 10 am the river burst it's banks by 10.30 garden flooded.

 

Big big thanks to a couple of mates and neighbour,who brought a couple of submersible pumps and flat hose, we managed to save the house but it was a close, close thing...

Water has drained off for now but more rain expected, tomorrow is project flood protection. Thoughts are with those less fortunate, it's not a pleasant thing to watch as the water rises so quickly.

[twistedhicap]

Not good ! Hope your not to badly affected good job you have some good friends to help out

[gand]

Seriously heavy rain from around 4 this morning and by 10 am the river burst it's banks by 10.30 garden flooded.

 

 

 

Big big thanks to a couple of mates and neighbour,who brought a couple of submersible pumps and flat hose, we managed to save the house but it was a close, close thing...

 

Water has drained off for now but more rain expected, tomorrow is project flood protection. Thoughts are with those less fortunate, it's not a pleasant thing to watch as the water rises so quickly.

 

 

Where abouts are you? It's been bad here in Whalley

[mendiplogs]

Seriously heavy rain from around 4 this morning and by 10 am the river burst it's banks by 10.30 garden flooded.

 

Big big thanks to a couple of mates and neighbour,who brought a couple of submersible pumps and flat hose, we managed to save the house but it was a close, close thing...

Water has drained off for now but more rain expected, tomorrow is project flood protection. Thoughts are with those less fortunate, it's not a pleasant thing to watch as the water rises so quickly.

 

Hi mate were are you base to thanks Jon keep safe

[Gardenmac]

Thankfully the water has drained away almost as quickly as it arrived. Busy day cleaning up today, garden is like walking on Porridge, but we are so thankful that it never came in the house.

Yeah so the we have lost about 12 cube of logs that had dried over the last 18 months and a couple of carvings that would have been on their way to customers this week. That is all quickly replaceable.

We are on the border between West Lancashire and Sefton and our heart goes out to the less fortunate across the North West who in many cases have watched as the water has entered their home for a third time in as many weeks. Big thanks to all your prayers, thoughts and kind words.

Ps our Bees survived...yeah!!!

Edited December 27, 2015 by Gardenmac

[Gardenmac]

Seems we had a months rain in 4 hours, yet no one from Environment Agency to be seen.

[easy-lift guy]

Seems like the government has once again been a total failure for theses reoccurring flooding problems in the UK. Can you as a property owner build a barrier or have sand bags on hot stand by for future flooding seeing as your the only person that can have at least a partial pro active approach that the government continues to ignore?. I hope you dry out soon.

easy-lift guy

[geoff]

Seems we had a months rain in 4 hours, yet no one from Environment Agency to be seen.

 

To be fair, they are probably trying to cope with areas worse hit,I'm not there, just speculating,but the levels of flooding are vast, and I would imagine they are completely overstretched..

 

It's good news that you survived the worse, sound horrendous the amount of rain up there, and the impact.

[SteveA]

Seems we had a months rain in 4 hours, yet no one from Environment Agency to be seen.

 

They've had their funding cut, even so they have never really been up to the job.

We used to live in a flood risk zone in Weymouth, Dorset.... we supplied the Env Agency with information about drainage that they didn't even have on their system.... it was an absolute joke.

 

cheers, steve

[easy-lift guy]

They've had their funding cut, even so they have never really been up to the job.

We used to live in a flood risk zone in Weymouth, Dorset.... we supplied the Env Agency with information about drainage that they didn't even have on their system.... it was an absolute joke.

 

cheers, steve

 

Based on your own previous experience with this governmental agency would it be better for the OP to just move to higher ground or would the OP be breaking existing laws by setting up sand bags or building a flood barrier to protect his land and home.

easy-lift guy