Welsh Dams and Flooding

[edcayton]

Listening to all this on the radio, and it sounds pretty nasty. Here's hoping that Coachman, Neil and any other RMWebbers in the area are OK and not affected.

 

Ed

[Andy Y]

Although it's worrying for anyone in that locality I know Coach is somewhat further north and Neil is tucked away in a valley a good few miles distant from there.

[John_Hughes]

We're not affected here - on the back road between between Aber and Lampeter - but it was pretty horrendous in the Aber - Mach area yesterday, and trains also affected around Caersws, apparently - the Severn flooding, no doubt.

 

The appeal for donations for those affected is already off the ground in Aber.

[298]

A friend is stuck in Tywyn. The Talyllyn is still running but all other public transport suffered difficulties.

 

Raining in Wales, who'd have thought it...?

[John_Hughes]

VoR embankment washout currently under repair:

[Edwin_m]

VoR story also picked up by the BBC.

[Tim V]

We were staying in Aberdyfi having spent a week working on the Talyllyn. Our exit East to the Corris for a day working there was blocked at Bryn Crug. Thinking the coast road would be blocked, we tried the Happy Valley road - that was blocked. We knew that the Dyfi Bridge was closed, but tried the coast road anyway, passing through about 100 yards of flooded road outside Pennal. Difficult to say how deep the water was - single file traffic and wait for the preceding car's wash to die down, maybe a couple of inches. The Focus managed it. When we got to the Dyfi bridge, it was closed with a fire engine on it, but the back road across the Dyfi was still open, we finally escaped. A very worrying experience, but there were certainly others who were much worse off. Pennal was the worse flooding we saw, and that was the Saturday about 11:00. A lot of water about.

[Neil]

Snorkels and flippers not needed here. Fortunately I live high enough in the hills for the river at the bottom of the garden to have a comparatively small catchment area and though the bottom lawn flooded (as it often does when it rains big) our house is a good way off river level. As John has already mentioned it's those that live further down the valleys that have taken a pasting.

[coachmann]

Thanks for the thought OP. We're fine here on the North Wales coast. We were caught up in the so-called 'Towyn' floods that afflicted the North Wales coast in 1990 while temporarily living with my eldest son in Pensarn. Walking throughdeep water in waders in the inky blackness of night and treading for missing manhole covers is quite scary. Flooding in a home is bad enough but the biggest danger comes from sewage and so my thought are with those poor folk on the Cambrian Coast.