Is The Rest closed yet? ;D
The whole place is closed. All roads are blocked with burst burns, two landslides at Cairndow and they are using helicopters to get the people trapped between them out.
And there is no where for these guys to go. The road either side of the van is blocked, the road in front is blocked and the Old Military road is flooded. They will need a helicopter to get them out :)
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Aye it's gey weet.
I'm under that big red blob :)
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Take care Sandy! :o
Badly coordinated roadworks nearly shut us off recently and now the rain has finished the job in Phase II. No way out seemingly !
At least we are missing the "heat wave". By the way the BBC are carrying on I'm assuming millions in the south are likely to die if the temperature "soars" to 25 deg. What a load of alarmist, cult follower bollox. ::)
Seemingly we are cut off, all the roads flooded, not that we are planning on going anywhere, glad we are on the top of a hill, hope all are safe. The Tay is up 15 feet near Perth and there's 8 foot on the North Esk and 6 on the South, fishing cancelled for Monday now
Good job we've got they beavers in the Tay otherwise we'd be totally fecked. Sooner we get wolves along the A83 the better. At least my Tesla will get through.
Quote from: admin on October 07, 2023, 08:26:52 PMAt least we are missing the "heat wave". By the way the BBC are carrying on I'm assuming millions in the south are likely to die if the temperature "soars" to 25 deg. What a load of alarmist, cult follower bollox. ::)
One of my mates at Murthly took his boats off the river yesterday morning. The water was in the Stenton hut by 4 pm, and, last time I looked, the river was still rising at 4am.Lower river ghillie said his boats were still on the river.....in the car park right enough! There are a huge number of big trees complete with roots heading for the sea, as well as a lot of the trees directly felled by the rodents. And here I am on Lewis wanting more rain for tomorrows wee black grilse hunt.
85mm yesterday, 25mm already (7.30am) today. Headed down the Tay to the Forth, at least the Perthshire Garry should have some water in it for once.
Aye may the Packhamites be praised all that rewilding has saved us from the heatwave ;D
The Tay reached the same level as storm Frank. Only been higher (in the recent past) in 1993.
The boats that were stashed in a car park were gone the following morning, and several other boats have gone.
Washed away or stolen by opportunist thieves?
it will be a while before you can drive from Lochgilphead to Oban :) This the Bealach Mor just before Ardfern turnoff heading for Oban.
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That's one impressive landslide. The forces of erosion in action. Just as well no one would ever want to go to Oban, ;D
I drove down from Ullapool to Cairnryan on Saturday and must say that I've seen heavier rain, but only in short bursts. Never before have I seen a whole day of it constantly beating it down like that. I was pretty lucky as the drive went quite well though I did sit for about an hour near Bannockburn where the road was flooded and the cars were going through in single file etc. There was an Audi in front of me and they are famous for not coping even with puddles so I expected an explosion but he got through, however from what I could see the car behind me didn't get through. It was only when I got to Glasgow that the roads started to be just "wet" rather than "flooded" so there was quite a marked change in road conditions within about 15 miles or so. One thing I can say is that I was really, really, glad that I took the BF Goodrich All Terrain tyres off my pickup and replaced them with the Pirelli equivalent, the BFGs were a nightmare on a wet road even at low speed but how they'd have coped when most of the roads had 2 inches of water flowing along them I dread to think.
The Insch Marches below Kingussie are a deep lake with Ruthven Barracks an island.
Rivers around us are falling back now.
Here is the pack bridge at Carrbridge .... still standing !
Quote from: admin on October 09, 2023, 09:29:57 AMWashed away or stolen by opportunist thieves?
Washed away. Anyone could steal the boats safely in low water conditions. How safe the thieves woyld be if caught stealing is a different matter.
Folks in Perth really pixxed off because, after millions spent on flood protection measures and plenty forewarning of very heavy rain and SEPA's flood forecasting office being in Perth, the council failed to close the open gates along the barrier walls. They claim that they did not have enough notice !
Quote from: Bobfly on October 10, 2023, 11:39:43 PMFolks in Perth really pixxed off because, after millions spent on flood protection measures and plenty forewarning of very heavy rain and SEPA's flood forecasting office being in Perth, the council failed to close the open gates along the barrier walls. They claim that they did not have enough notice !
The people of Perth will be even more pissed off once the beavers finish destroying the flood defences.
Anyway, how could this flood possibly have happened given the Tay catchment is infested with flood mitigation beavers. I am confused. Was someone telling porkies?
Quote from: Laxdale on October 11, 2023, 07:29:42 AMThe people of Perth will be even more pissed off once the beavers finish destroying the flood defences.
Anyway, how could this flood possibly have happened given the Tay catchment is infested with flood mitigation beavers. I am confused. Was someone telling porkies?
Chris Packham, Gary Lineker and Greta Thunderbird said beavers prevent floods so it must be true. ::)