miserable pissy rain

Severe thunderstorms over central London throughout much of this afternoon have again caused major flash flooding in parts of the capital.

This is the scene at Pudding Mill Lane DLR Station in Stratford (via @R0bday): pic.twitter.com/pJxagrelnf

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cold swimming and commuting, never a good mix

coren's house is on a hill sadly so the best we can hope for is violent run-off eroding its foundations

i know this now because I put some flowers there on Friday, the video reminded me of the street, suppose lots of streets in london look like that though, if I hide this it won't be in search results yeah? I know he is a bit litigious

previous videos showed Portobello road and around by me I've seen people putting sodden cellar contents out into the road (counter creek they call it, Thames water have an "action plan". we get mail about it, although I'm 2 floors up so shrug emoji)

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives., Apparently had 6 ins of water in every downstairs room & more towards teh back of the house where the floor levels are lower.
I don'tr remember hearing of flooding in the street since teh early 80s where it used to flood about half way down the street fron what i remember, THis was all the way along the street and i think deeper.
Drag, so glad I'm elsewhere and 4 flights up.,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaC-Ysioj4
guy wadfing into the beginning of a road a bit in is the end of teh road I spent my teens in and the guy standing in shorts outside a Victorian building is the far end of that road. Yeah can see that the depth of flooding is deeper than I remember from the 80s. It doesn't seem to have an end from that shot, though road goes up hill behind the camera.
I wonder how frequently this will repeat now its happened

thumbnail still image is from outside the school at the end of the road too.
THe council in the borough have tried to combat rat running drivers by placing small mini parks at the end of the roads that used to be through roads so where you're seeing bollards there is around where this park thing is

there's at least a couple of flash-floods every year in london when the summer rains first come, often including negative effect on the underground -- this going back as long as i've lived here: bcz the storms drains as they are can't handle the sudden flow and back up and the water needs to go somewhere and in some places there's a lot of handy holes and in others not so much (holes can't take it)

this was worse in that it was in unexpected places -- and is at the front of our minds for obvious reasons and we all get to see the social-media clips -- but the basic london problem here is not at all new, it's old and seemingly untackled, certainlt unre-tackled with a view to the threats of the future

is there even the ghost of the notion of a larger longer-term joined-up project? maybe yes and only wonks are chatting abt it in obscurity? someone must have written this (perhaps i should go search) but i've never read anything comprehensive on the state of the physical infrastructure to tackle this issue even in ordinary years (if we will even be gettging "ordinary" years ever again). a fvckton of street restructuring goes on all the time but it's notoriously unco-ordinated -- the same street dug up three times in a row for different reasons, instead of tackling everything in one go -- and that's just maintenance

AIUI there is a Mayoral target for area of sustainable urban drainage (SUDs) which in theory gets included in new developments etc, but I've no idea how far it goes towards addressing the current or future issue.

tfw yr advised "sadiq is on it!" :|

(cheers tim, i confess i did no research work at all before posting)

Just been looking at an elevation map of Hebden Bridge and am aware of how steep some of the paths are but didn't realise that some of the parts where I used to go walking are 800ft + higher than the parts of the town that frequently get flooded.

Flooding in Walthamstow where I spent my teens and my mother still lives.

I think Calzino's first video post ('Flooding in East London gets out of control') is actually my street (in Walthamstow).

does the same red car appear in both? Like there's a red car taht appears in 2 different videos I saw yesterday and isn't on the street I was referring to. Not sure where around Walthamstow it would have been though. May be a different acr but I think it looked similar

‘Hey, there’s a red car in the fountain’.

bump

lovin it

welp

It took two attempts to get Widget outside for ones and twos this morning. Whippets HATE rain.

Woody still hasn't gone. Raced outside the second I opened the door and turned right back around. Confused. Disappointed.

Widget was enticed out by his friend Mabel the cockapoo also going about her business across the street. We are now safe to go out for the BIG WALK (get the bus to Little Venice, walk the canal back to Kings Cross).

jesus. it woke me up at 3, it's now 4 and has just been solid that entire time.

Yeah I sleep in the loft and it was just hammering down.

i like that sound (when i'm inside and in bed): i sleep better

Lots of lake-style puddles this morning!

Got woken up at 1am to investigate water dripping on my wife & toddler's bed. A hopefully minor and easily fixable leak from our roof window.

my work is semi flooded, we have all been moved to the back of the building.

Just went from light-to-moderate miserable pissy rain to heavy rain. Looks like I got indoors just in time. Jeans are still soaked though.

with rain, that is

miserable pissy sandstorm turning the sky yellow this morning

The sky has been such a weird color in London!

(colour) 8)

it's spooky yet gorgeous

what this year needs is a miserable pissy fall of fish tbrr

miserable piscine rain

miserable pissy snow

Didn’t experience the sleet/snow in London but the wind is no fucking joke today

Perfect weather for an ILB FAP, outdoors of course.

Minnesota's fully in "Winter, 1st Encore" for the foreseeable future.

Perfect weather for an ILB FAP, outdoors of course.

miserable pissy Jubliee

rainy joobs

soggy gammons

the colours will be running
ON YOUR SUPERMARKET BUNTING

wimbledon fortnight started 3.5 hours ago

yay!

Maybe tomorrow afternoon where I live. The ground is so dry it's just going to roll straight off.

Pissing down here in Edinburgh, as usual

koogs where are you yaying from?

oh wait i just got a faceful of petrichor, it has quietly rained a little here also