Flood warnings for SW Eng & Wales for weekend

[NorthernRaider]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...nties.html

[Straight Shooter]

i really feel for these people...a friend of mine flooded out 2 years ago....they built the houses on an old coal mine site

[bigpaul]

we seem to have had solid rain for the last 24 hours, was on the A30 & A303 yesterday, lashing down with rain, spray everywhere, foggy, and i lost count of the idiots sceaming past at 80/90 mph, WITH NO HEADLIGHTS ON! complete and utter idiots. came back over land, small country back roads mainly and came across a B road that we regularly use,which runs alongside the river, (at Junction pool -scene of "Tarka-the otter"), OH said some time ago "one day we will come along here and the road will have collapsed into the river", well, yesterday was THAT day! road had fallen into the river and was closed in both directions, had to back track and take a side turning onto another road to get home.

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flooded roads: http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/3595...flood-risk

[bigpaul]

just been out in the car, water laying over the road in both directions-passable with care.river is UP to the arches of the bridge.

[Pagan-Mist]

Don't know about the SW but north hampshire seems to be getting a bit of a battering with rain and high winds, I've just been stood out in it having a ciggy I thouht the shelter was going to collapse and as for tree's I think we may have branches come down and 1/2 trees uprooted.

[Neuralsandwich]

Really feeling for everyone effected by this. I feel bad, it is actually kinda sunny up here, cold but sunny.

[bigpaul]

all the ground was saturated BEFORE the most recent rain storms, fields cannot hold any more and the excess is spilling out onto the roads, we are not going to get the warm weather now that would make this water evaporate, if we get a cold spell then all this lot will freeze.