Rain rain go away
and preferably come back some time later. I was listening to Hereford and Worcester FM's traffic report, normally two to five minutes long we were averaging fifteen to twenty. This road is closed, that road is closed; my favourite comment was "There are Road Closed signs up at [road] please believe them" [Additional - I forgot to mention that apparently Woverley was cut off completely]
Tav has added Belbroughton's new river. The switchback was closed (big surprise), Bewdley Bridge was supposedly closed for an hour ("but don't stop that from shopping there" announced a cheery news reader), Dunley Road was closed forcing traffic through the village, and Areley Lane is still closed. It looks like Baldwin and Mill Road are back open, Jim on the new estate said they'd been warned they might have to move, but it really only affected those houses at the bottom; they've got some pictures I'll check back to see if they're doing anything with them.
[Update Suzie's got some shots of the flooding on her Flickr Page]
All-in-all it's been a fun time for the District/County/Country, and the government still says it might build new houses on flood plains as "the need outweighs the risk" oh and they need affordable housing... hmm a link there perhaps? Yep stuff all the poor people onto the flood plain; serves them right for not being able to afford decent houses.
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Anyone got a snorkel and flippers for the skatepark i could borrow ?
Bloody stupid wfdc building it there,but once again a example of them not listening to the people.
Tbh i hope it gets bloody ruined and they have to build it all again.Maybe they will listen....oh wait a second that NEVER happens does it,because they know best...
To be fair it's the rain over the river as the major cause, which would have occurred anywhere. I do suspect however that it would have drained away a little quicker if placed closer to the Civic Centre.
Another brilliant photo of the bottom narrow lock by Laura Dora taken on Sunday 22nd at 14.07 http://www.flickr.com/photos/emergency_exit/875594631/in/set-72157594388273078/
By the purest coincidence Jim has just shunted his photos across to me (uploading shortly with permission) and he has exactly the same shot. "I've just seen that, you haven't uploaded them to Flickr have you?"
You are an absolute fucking geek.
STUPI STUPID STUPID GEEK!!! WHY O WHY ARE YUOU SUCH A STUPID GEEK TAKING PICTURES OF ROADS?? ARE YOU ILL??
Geek I'll accept; fucking geek is a little rude; but stupid - now you're being insulting.
As for the pictures of roads try this
do you think £32bn is being spent on our roads?
New roads are built, old ones repaired and a lot of future problems can be avoided if it's done correctly. That sadly doesn't seem to be happening. Look up "Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness" and apply it to roads.
So what would you do? Me I take photos of the problems and try to point them out in the forlorn hope that they might stop making the same mistake again and again.
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