Still bloody raining...

[nodrog]

Here's a then and now with a difference - yesterday morning and this morning at Kelvinbridge...

Nodrog

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[Socceroo]

Tomorrow's photos could be interesting if this weather keeps up..

[McShad]

Just to the right of the last 2 pictures is a depth measurement stick?

[MacotheIsles]

Great photos!

Last time this happened at Kelvinbridge the river overflowed the retaining wall on its Eastern side and poured through the old Stobcross tunnel, drowning the Argyle Line. They put up a berm at the tunnel mouth, but last time I was by there it had become quite flattened - hope they're quick off the mark this time to pile more earth on top.

[Blueboy]

I'm building a big boat.

[Simba]

Even GU Library has suffered from the rain - the tower with the lifts has been closed because of rain.

Interested pics nodrog, haven't been down at that part of the Kelvin since the rain started, but at QM Bridge it's pretty high and fast flowing. Hopefully won't flood like 1994!

[Mark N]

Send some down here - we've got a drought to alleviate !

[MotoMad]

gettin beyond a joke now, ruined my best trainers today, thought a pothole was just a wee puddle and i dissapeared away into it
those pics of the kelvin are quite worrying, is it possible that the central low level could flood again?

[alibali b]

I think ive got web feet they are always wet were is the cold frosty weather? Had to buy wellies rather snazzy pink ones from asda. Falkirk and Stirling badly flooded back roads bad

[ibtg]

Our garage got flooded on Sunday night/Monday morning. Late on, we heard a noise outside and opened the front door to see a torrent of water flow by like a river. We had been badly flooded in 1995, when there was a cloudburst one July and all the road drains were blocked.

Guess what - the drains were blocked again... There is a big drain at our driveway, but this drain has to cope with the water which flows down from way up the street. We keep the drain clear of leaves etc (because the council doesn't). Our house and garden are lower than the level of the road.

We live near 2 schools and, with the leaves from further up and the debris of half-eaten lunches and their containers, not to mentiion the empty plastic bottles and drinks cans, this drain soon gets blocked again. Unfortunately, we failed to notice this time, until the garage and its contents and the storage area behind the garage, were under 6 inches of water.

We called the Fire Brigade, who were obviously very busy because of the situation, because we feared that the water would reach the electrics, but they said they could not do anything until the rain stopped(!?!)

We sandbagged the gates as best we could and opened the drain in the garden and set to clearing the drain in the street with sticks and shovels (in our nightclothes and welly boots!) Finally, the water subsided at about 1 a.m. We had, at least this time, saved the house. Last time there was 3-4 feet of water all around the garden and under the house.

Another insurance claim courtesy of the Council, which takes the tax, but does little in return..... Next day, the little clean machine came and cleared up the debris we had piled in the middle of the road. Thanks.........

[motman]

Send some down here - we've got a drought to alleviate !

I need to pressure wash my doorsteps. Will probably do it next week when I'm off. And await the curtains twitching and the auld biddies moaning aboot a drought and hosepipe ban.
Garden of England my arse. More likely concrete carpark, what with Kent's finest turning the M20 into a lorry park when our beloved neighbours pull up the drawbridge.

[hazy]

Its like a scence from The Illustrated Man .The Long Rain. We will all end up going bonkers.

[Blueboy]

Garden of England my arse. More likely concrete carpark, what with Kent's finest turning the M20 into a lorry park when our beloved neighbours pull up the drawbridge.

Think yourself lucky you're not in Chatham. If Kent is the Garden of England, Chatham is the steaming compost heap at the back fence.

[ninatoo]

Send some of it down here to Oz...we haven't seen much rain lately.

[pwh60_2]

To be fair, I think this flooding caught everyone on the hop. Looks like it's going to be a regular feature. Knightswood was always a bloody wet place, but now - ouch!
Wednesday evening - driving to Ferguslie from Kelso Street - thought the water was going to reach window level - just passing St Brendan's, looked left over towards Brownside (?) Drive - sh*t myself - waves coming at me.
Over at Ferguslie, beside the Tannahill Centre, more of the same. Road down to St James well flooded, even Jeeps turning back. And on the motorway - hitting even 2 feet of water at 50mph is no joke!
Pigged off that I didn't have a camera with me!
Pete