The Rig

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working in cheltenham,flooded to ****,every way out of here where i work is flooded,i made it thru most of the floods,about 2 foot deep,got to the last part,the bridge is flooded,cars in it upto their roofs,turn back round,the stuff id just gone thru were about half a foot deeper in the space of 10 mins !!

like a river everywhere,and if i do get out, EVERY road is grid locked,M5,A40 all the others !!!!!!!!!!!

so i came back to work where its a bit safer


Great !!

at least i have internet but no food !!!1

davegtt

Must be somewhere to order a pizza and get a few tinnies delivered? could have an office party

OllyK

Only if dominos have motor boats!

davegtt

Jeez, dont people learn to swim nowadys?

Drunken Bungle Whore

But if the pizza is over 30 mins, don't you get it for free?

OllyK

Cold, wet, but free pizza, yummy!

Iwan

The centre of Swindon is supposed to be pretty bad, though not as bad as that as far as I've heard. At 1pm all the roads were starting to get blocked, and water was 2ft deep in some streets. In Pinehurst the drains were looking more like geysers in the middle of the street, and I heard on the radio that some houses were being evacuated. Also loads of schools were closing early, and some parents at our kids school were saying they couldn't get home to Wroughton as the roads were blocked.

Sounds nasty, I'm glad I live up on a hill!!

This was the transfer bridges area on Great Western Way at about 1pm, they were letting cars creep through the shallower bits.

D.K.1

Sounds like a nightmare!

Like you say, you are safer and at least warm (?) and dry, but what if it gets worse and work gets flooded too? THe car will be foobared and the building will be a mess, I doubt there's any comforts there for sleep (if it comes to that) No food and the electric etc could go off!

Was going to say order a delivery LOL, but they would have problems getting it to you with the roads Anywhere nearby that's open that you could get some food from before it gets worse, or would you have to wade in it??

Could turn into a bit of a situation, this!

Been raining all day here too, but where I am doesn't look flooded, just some rather large puddles.

richie001

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the part of cheltenham i live is under 2 foot of flood water

Freelance Badger

yup girlfriend works at UCAS up by the racecourse and they have booked staff into hotels because roads blocked and no buses/trains running so people cant get home. I cant even get from Gloucester to Chelt - gave up and turned round - every road blocked and the motorway both ways

kingofturds

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Sunny down here

The Rig

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doubt dominos would get thru

Iwan

Ok that beats my photo!!

D.K.1

So you're still stuck then?

What are you going to do?

Luminous

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Well, we could post him pics of really tasty food to see if that helps him?

and on a more serious note, start and look for somewhere that does serve food. Burger vans etc, even if they are closed. Knock on the door and see what they can offer you. If you have a few colleagues in the same boat (no pun intended) then they may open up and cook for you all

D.K.1

Hopefully you will manage to get some kind of food from somewhere before the electrics cut out!

Luminous

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He has not posted back, that tends to suggest that t'internet is now submerged where he is

Fuzz

Curtis lives round the corner from that bridge

I was all right, had a bit to go through but borrowed the bosses mondeo so I could hydraulic that instead of my own car
Got off at Junct 10, all the way down to Princess lizzy way and then up through Benhall.
Going through Badgeworth was a bit but the engine was still running so I kept it behind the bow wave and kept going.
Took me an hour to get home, that normally takes me 15 mins.


Andy

Trout

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It was quite sunny at Lord's watching Englands tail end collapse!

Those pics are not good

howellsy42

i had to go and pick a mates kid up as the floods had cut the village off i took the work landy and didnt have any problems was funny being told by the fire men that i wouldnt get thru then pissing thru 3-4 foot deep water with ease a bmw even asked if he could follow me thru do these people have brains?!!?! i saw lots of high class motors claped out by the floods were they thought they could get thru!!

Fuzz

http://www.ashlyn.plus.com/misc/video-0009.3gp

Just a splash


Andy

The Rig

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this old lptop hasnt got quicktime on it to play 3gp stuff,ight d/l it.

still here at work,got some food from the snack shop,the opened back up and food was free,so that was good of them,hopefully the rain will stop at 9ish and i will prob try and leave about 11 see if the roads have drained a bit.

Fuzz

still pissing down here... it'll be while yet fella, hope the office chair is comfy

The Rig

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This is just outside where i work

Fuzz

The fence sort of looks like GCHQ but I drove past there on my way home so can't be


Andy

D.K.1

You still there Rig?

What will happen for the rest of the night?

Will anyone come out in the dinghy's to take people to better *accomodation* or home?

bonerp

In Swindon we got sent home at 3pm. Took me 2 hrs to do 2 miles!!!!! Got home, my road is a foot under water (Gorse Hill), houses are being evacuated nearby and my garden is somewhere out the back!!! mate that works with me left to get back to Solihull at lunchtime. Took him 6 hrs!!!!!!!!!!! Supposed to be off to Ibiza, he caught the flight with 10 mins to spare!!!

Luminous

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I hope you get paid overtime Rig!!

The Rig

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HIya Rigs Missus here, he is trying to get home to gloucester, if he cant get through hes going to turn around and stay at charlton kings area friends there. Heard golden valley is now drivable but very slow as its not too deep
our daughter wrote him a map to get home (shes 4) and told him not to go into the deep puddles or he will sink!
im sure he will let you all know when hes back, got a beer on standby so he better get here or ITS MINE!

D.K.1

Hope he gets back OK with no probs