Hebden Bridge.

[bfcjg]

https://flood-warning-information.servi ... irection=u
Great little town. Hope they are ok.

[Lord Beamish]

The rain in the upper Calder Valley is not too bad, at the moment. River levels in Hebden and Mytholmroyd looking alright, for the time being.

[DCWat]

Considering the previous highs and the forecast high, they may be in for a rough ride over the next few days.

[bfcjg]

Great drinking town if a little pricey. We try to go there 2 or 3 times a year by train get hammered and come home. If the forecasted river levels become the highest ever recorded these next few hours the local businesses will need all the help they can get. I'll put my liver on the line to help out.

[THEWELLERNUT70]

I love Hebden. Rarely a month passes without me attending a gig at The Trades Club

[TheFamilyCat]

Great drinking town if a little pricey. We try to go there 2 or 3 times a year by train get hammered and come home. If the forecasted river levels become the highest ever recorded these next few hours the local businesses will need all the help they can get. I'll put my liver on the line to help out.

How do you cope with all the liberals?

[Lord Beamish]

Market St, this morning. It’s nor good, butI’ve seen it worse.

[pushpinpussy]

Just been down to Crowwood. The Lane is flooded leading up to Crowwood. Someone stuck in it. Fire brigade are there Luckily I was in my new Mercedes amg 4x4 G63 so
Managed to speed right past them with ease.

[Targetman]

Just been down to Crowwood. The Lane is flooded leading up to Crowwood. Someone stuck in it. Fire brigade are there Luckily I was in my new Mercedes amg 4x4 G63 so
Managed to speed right past them with ease.

That was fortunate!

[arise_sir_charge]

Just been down to Crowwood. The Lane is flooded leading up to Crowwood. Someone stuck in it. Fire brigade are there Luckily I was in my new Mercedes amg 4x4 G63 so
Managed to speed right past them with ease.

Thank God you took the AMG option, otherwise you’d have had to drive past a little more slowly.

[summitclaret]

Flooding expected all over E Lancs today, including Padiham and Whalley. Even Burnley TC, which is unheard of for decades I think.

[Jakubclaret]

https://flood-warning-information.servi ... k/warnings
None severe yet.

[summitclaret]

Check the warnings on that link. Like I said flooding is expected all over E Lancs and beyond. Rivers Calder (both), Irwell and tributaries, inc Brun.

[Loyalclaret]

Read this thread and looked at the graph in the link, woke up this morning and decided to drive the back roads to Euerka...mistake!

Dropped into Tod after doubling back twice, main road closed and a few places where cars were stuck.

Any idea what the road to Bacup/stackshesd is like for flooding? Was planning on going from Burnley at dinner

[Quickenthetempo]

Padiham and Whalley are flooded.

The training ground must be in danger of flood.

[todclaret]

I'm at work in today, but I'm also a volounteer flood warden. From what I'm seeing & hearing from fellow wardens and on social media, the flooding in Tod, Hebden and Mythlomroyd is bad. Not perhaps at Boxing day 2015 levels, but still at significant levels

[nil_desperandum]

Roads between Worsthorne and Cliviger almost impassable 2 hours ago, and I believe that there are now some road closures up there cutting off the Ram etc from Walk Mill. Road impassable at Overtown as well (top of Mount Lane).
Saw desperate people as early as 10.30 in Worsthorne trying to prevent water getting into their homes, but it was a losing battle.
If you don't have to go out, then stay put.

[nil_desperandum]

I'm at work in today, but I'm also a volounteer flood warden. From what I'm seeing & hearing from fellow wardens and on social media, the flooding in Tod, Hebden and Mythlomroyd is bad. Not perhaps at Boxing day 2015 levels, but still at significant levels

But unfortunately the weather is forecast to get a lot worse later this afternoon. Not good.

[bfcjg]

Padiham not as bad yet as the boxing day floods.

[Zlatan]

Don’t worry you will be able to claim from the EU flood relief fun.... ohh wait a minute...

[todclaret]

if the link works, this is Rochdale Road in Tod

https://twitter.com/i/status/1226488884877578241

[LordBob]

if the link works, this is Rochdale Road in Tod

https://twitter.com/i/status/1226488884877578241

The link works ... what a mess!

[Dark Cloud]

Great drinking town if a little pricey. We try to go there 2 or 3 times a year by train get hammered and come home. If the forecasted river levels become the highest ever recorded these next few hours the local businesses will need all the help they can get. I'll put my liver on the line to help out.

Went yesterday with the Clarets being inactive and all and we ticked as many watering holes as possible just in case it was for the last time! Bearing in mind that from today onwards Hebden Bridge may become the new Atlantis!

[IanMcL]

Just been down to Crowwood. The Lane is flooded leading up to Crowwood. Someone stuck in it. Fire brigade are there Luckily I was in my new Mercedes amg 4x4 G63 so
Managed to speed right past them with ease.

Speed right past them does not sound very intelligent or empathetic with others.

[Bosscat]

If you thought Rochdale Rd bad ... how about this in Tod today

https://twitter.com/i/status/1226501478518591491

[Dark Cloud]

Who the hell needs a fridge that big??

[Paul Waine]

and featured in Travel section of S Times today:

Flight-free breaks: Hebden Bridge
Three reasons to visit the Yorkshire market town

No mention of needing to bring your waders.

[Iloveyoubrady]

Just been down to Crowwood. The Lane is flooded leading up to Crowwood. Someone stuck in it. Fire brigade are there Luckily I was in my new Mercedes amg 4x4 G63 so
Managed to speed right past them with ease.

Careful, Tarky was ridiculous for driving one of those

[tiger76]

Who the hell needs a fridge that big??

Must be expecting Boris to visit

[deanothedino]

Flooding expected all over E Lancs today, including Padiham and Whalley. Even Burnley TC, which is unheard of for decades I think.

Thought Burnley town centre flooded in the last year or two tbh

Edit it was December 2015

[Inchy]

Feel sorry for anyone living in Tod.

Not because of the floods mind

[CleggHall]

Third time Hebden Bridge has flooded in 10 years, commiserations to all but it is nearly impossible to prevent. Level of water in the town yesterday was 3.5 meters compared to record 3.8 a few years ago. Heavy rain in Cornholme, Portsmouth and Lydgate catchment comes rushing down the steep valley and has got to go somewhere, even Prince Charles can't control this!
But did this occur 50 years ago?

[Zlatan]

it does beg the question as to whether its worth just abandoning towns and villages in flood plains

[Lord Beamish]

Third time Hebden Bridge has flooded in 10 years, commiserations to all but it is nearly impossible to prevent. Level of water in the town yesterday was 3.5 meters compared to record 3.8 a few years ago. Heavy rain in Cornholme, Portsmouth and Lydgate catchment comes rushing down the steep valley and has got to go somewhere, even Prince Charles can't control this!
But did this occur 50 years ago?

Hebden Bridge’s problem is not just the catchment area of the upper Calder you mention above, it’s the fact that it lies on the confluence of three well fed water courses; the River Calder, Colden Water, and Hebden Water. All three of these meet within about half a mile of each other, and all three are supplied by massive moorland catchment areas that are(especially in the case of the Colden Water) feed steeply into the valley. Heavy rain on these three distinct catchment areas will usually lead to some trouble for the town, and Mytholmroyd, just a mile further down stream.

To answer your final point, there’s lots of pictorial and written evidence that this has always happened.

[Bosscat]

Third time Hebden Bridge has flooded in 10 years, commiserations to all but it is nearly impossible to prevent. Level of water in the town yesterday was 3.5 meters compared to record 3.8 a few years ago. Heavy rain in Cornholme, Portsmouth and Lydgate catchment comes rushing down the steep valley and has got to go somewhere, even Prince Charles can't control this!
But did this occur 50 years ago?

https://eyeoncalderdale.com/history-of- ... calderdale

[MACCA]

First time you've got to feel for the residents, 2nd time 4 years later is damn unlucky and cant be easy doing a 2nd big clean operation.

But if anyone who stays around to be stung a 3rd time then they've only themselves to blame.

The problem for tight Yorkies is, it's not very often that the cheapest option is the best.

[TheFamilyCat]

I think a lot of money has been spent on defences since the last floods but the work hasn't been completed. How much difference these will make remains to be seen next time it happens (unless it happens again before they've finished).

[Rileybobs]

But if anyone who stays around to be stung a 3rd time then they've only themselves to blame.

Really? Do you expect it's easy to sell and get a reasonable price for a house that has flooded twice in recent years?

[jrgbfc]

If the Chinese can build a hospital from scratch in about 4 days surely it shouldn't take 4 years to get some decent flood defences in place?

[aggi]

There's been various people blaming it, on part, on the grouse moors above Hebden. It seems the grouse prefer various fresh shoots of new heather so the moors are burnt back to promote this new growth rather than established vegetation which would soak up more water and act as natural dams.

[Rowls]

If the Chinese can build a hospital from scratch in about 4 days surely it shouldn't take 4 years to get some decent flood defences in place?

They can send a man to the moon and yet they still insist on making toilet doors which don't open outwards when you leave so you have to touch the door with you hands and risk all the dirty bacteria and poop left over by dirty buggers who don't wash their hands.

[TheFamilyCat]

If the Chinese can build a hospital from scratch in about 4 days surely it shouldn't take 4 years to get some decent flood defences in place?

It wouldn't have taken four years if it wasn't up north.

[jrgbfc]

It wouldn't have taken four years if it wasn't up north.

I dare say you're right. If it was in Surrey or Berkshire it would have been sorted in no time.

[Burnley1989]

Really? Do you expect it's easy to sell and get a reasonable price for a house that has flooded twice in recent years?

Had a friend that’s house is absolutely worthless due to the floods and he has a £90k mortgage on it. Basically stuck there

[Burnley1989]

Todmorden had there flood defences worked on down by Weir Minerals back in around 2005-2007, the water has to go somewhere

[brexit]

They need dykes

[Dark Cloud]

They need dykes

You'll be getting a ban mate!! (Made me chuckle though! )

[MACCA]

Really? Do you expect it's easy to sell and get a reasonable price for a house that has flooded twice in recent years?

Not sure, but I'd be selling and relocating.

I'm not saying you'll get an identical house for the same price, but then where can you ever.

But whatever the facts or figures were, I'd be getting out of there instantly.

[brexit]

spelt it wrong should be dikes
http://nasdonline.org/static_content/do ... 001489.pdf

[Rileybobs]

Not sure, but I'd be selling and relocating.

I'm not saying you'll get an identical house for the same price, but then where can you ever.

But whatever the facts or figures were, I'd be getting out of there instantly.

And if you were in a heap of negative equity like Burnley1989's mate?