Storm Bert 2024 Flooding

[Richard G]

Anyone been much affected by this? I haven't checked yet, but it seems my allotment is likely to be under water (not worried about the land, but it will have destroyed beehives ).

Saw this in the BBC article and figured a bunch of us have probably ridden this particular road.



"In Powys, there was a landslip on a the road from Bwlch y Groes towards Lake Vyrnwy"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgj7qvj097po

[riderdown]

Back garden went under and the stream (raging torrent) blew out some of the rock armour I had placed. I need to rebuild and probably support with clay or soil.

Plus side is my garden is now probably longer

Lots of local flooding, mainly of properties fronting onto roads

[faustus]

Seems to be a lot of surface water flooding here - the rivers aren't that high here, and the ground wasn't fully saturated after a fairly long dry spell, but the sheer volume has left plenty of pools of water behind. Including on the railway line, closing it for the day! I've seen a picture of a stream in the Black Mountains that had turned into a torrent and washed fences and soil away - i'd imagine lots of similar damage all over the place...

[Dyffers]

We now know which weekend a second November running of this year's BB200 would have been on.

[Bearbonesnorm]

Rough here on Sat with the rivers as high as I've ever seen them in 20 years.

Good luck sorting the bees out Rich.

[whitestone]

Sadly someone died in a ford not far from here. It's called a ford but essentially the road runs along a river bed for about 200m http://streetmap.co.uk/map?X=390710&Y=441752&A=Y&Z=115 and Google streetview https://www.google.com/maps/@53.8717277 ... FQAw%3D%3D the ford continues for about 50m round the corner.

I've definitely seen the Aire Valley flooded worse by maybe a metre or so about twenty years ago.

[Richard G]

Rough here on Sat with the rivers as high as I've ever seen them in 20 years.

Good luck sorting the bees out Rich.

Alas it appears they're dead. Hives intact, but there's wasps in one of them and none at all in the other.

Might have been the sudden cold snap rather than the flood, but either way they're gone. Will have to work out a way of getting a couple of new colonies in the new year.

[Blackhound]

Rich, hope you get sorted. A fella I ride with some weeks hasn’t quite a few hives and we chatting about it a month or so ago.

[GregMay]

Roads closed in and out od Hebden Saturday and Sunday. Town flooded, but up to the barriers on the shops, so most only got a few mm of water in. River came close to the 2016 mark when it burst. Thankfully, didn't.

[Taylor]

Hammocked in the woods east of presteigne Saturday, had a extended journey home to Bristol avoiding all the flooded roads.
At one point we were stuck in wigmore as all roads out were impassable, dead cars everywhere.

[dlovett]

Rough here on Sat with the rivers as high as I've ever seen them in 20 years.

Good luck sorting the bees out Rich.

Alas it appears they're dead. Hives intact, but there's wasps in one of them and none at all in the other.

Might have been the sudden cold snap rather than the flood, but either way they're gone. Will have to work out a way of getting a couple of new colonies in the new year.

RIP Bees.

Hope you can get some more soon Richard.

[redefined_cycles]

Sorry to hear about the bees Rich. Yes, I believe I recognise that road there and ridden it at least a couple times.

Makes me think now, Is it a silly question, but will storm Bert have affected my ride this coming Sunday (630 miler circular, gps/Strava attached).

[redefined_cycles]

Check out this route on Strava: https://strava.app.link/F7Ny6EkoQOb — Omar Bin Al Khattab Epic

In a nutshell it's Bristol, Bath, Trowbridge, Guildford, Croydon, London, St Albans, Banbury, Southam (missing Royal Leamington Spa and the straight but blind drivers Fosse Way), Brinklow, Hinckley, Market Bosworth, Ashby de la Zouch (love that name, dunno what it means), Repton, Derby, Belper, Crich, Bolsover, Staveley, Whiston, Wombwell, Monk Bretton (Barnsley but on the side a bit), Dewsbury, Holmfirth then Glossop (this is hard to get over att his time of year on a normal day), Poynton, Macclesfield, Leek, Dilhorne, Stone, Haughton, Bishops Wood, Albrington, Shatterford, Bewdley, Worcester, Malvern, Ledbury (not to be confused with Leadville!), Newent, Gloucester, Stonehouse, then back to Bristol!

Anyone recognise any of the above names and heard of owt in the news for broken or blocked roads. It's my (human rights) winter event for Dr Aafia Siddiqui Freedom...

[Blackhound]

Shaf, the Derby area is fine. I was near Ashby dlZ yesterday and even sections near Derby that can flood have not or it has already gone down,. The A6 to Belper and Crich should be ok, I have seen a fella riding this way on Strava and has not commented.

[redefined_cycles]

Shaf, the Derby area is fine. I was near Ashby dlZ yesterday and even sections near Derby that can flood have not or it has already gone down,. The A6 to Belper and Crich should be ok, I have seen a fella riding this way on Strava and has not commented.

Thanks for this Kev. The only thing that really looked (a bit) flooded local to me is a road that connects us to the motorway and then to Halifax. Bloomin Halifax, always flooded. Think their councillors eat all the money