What's more current than the weather?

[DanaC]

Oh,we're ok- as I say, we're pretty far from the Calder,and my village is at the top of a hill anyway. But the two Js are cut off. Their house is ok, because they're up the hill a way, from the town centre and river - but the town centre where they live is under several feet of water. There's certainly no way for them to leave Todmorden right now.

Mum's house did flood a few years ago, because her house is built into the side of the hill,and the heavy rainfall meant it ran off through the hill and into the back and up through the floor- but her landlords have had the back half of the house tanked, so we're crossing fingers it doesn't happen again.

Large parts of the country are under water. Lancashire,Yorkshire and Cumbria have all been hit hard, as have parts of Scotland. Some of the flooding started a couple of weeks ago when Storm Desmond hit. The flooding in Yorkshire and Lancashire mainly started on Boxing Day



Lot of rivers and a lot of hills in Britain.

[Carruthers]

The video in the bottom right hand corner of DanaC's video can be seen here in greater detail.

I assume that the level of water inside the Land Rover must be about the same as that outside, so he wouldn't have had long to go before tragedy struck.

I'm sure that he'll be forever grateful that he chose the model with the sun roof.



I've never had to deal with flooding, and the thought of it ruining your home is bad enough, but can you imagine what it must be like to find yourself in a life threatening situation due to rising water?
'Bloody terrifying' is the phrase that springs to mind.