"A lot of weather we've been having lately", said Oliver Hardy to the Sheriff''s wife in Way Out West, and I echo that sentiment. An inch (25mm) of rain has fallen during the past 24 hours, and a severe flood warning is again in place on the Dorset Stour. A local riverside park has been inundated three times in the past ten days as the waterway remains in flood, with some residents losing everything. It has worsened since the weekend, and a high spring tide just after noon exacerbated the situation. Several locals I speak to say it hasn't been this bad here since 1979.
The river is not tidal at this point, but all that water entering the local harbour forces the water to back-up, resulting in closed roads, sightseers, and TV crews aplenty. It rains heavily several times whilst I'm recording the event for posterity (photograph), and if the water levels rise above the arches of Iford Old Bridge in the background then the water has nowhere to go except back upstream, causing more mayhem.
An idea of just how much water is now flowing through the area can be judged in the top photo in this post, which is of the same bridge a month ago. It will take quite some time before river levels return to normal, as water is still draining into the Stour from hills and fields along the 55 miles that is still upstream.
24-70mm f/2.8G AF-S Nikkor. 1/160 second at f/8. + 0.33 EV compensation. ISO 320
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2 comments:
You are going through some brutal weather. Doesn't do much for the disposition to have it rainy and gray for days and weeks on end, does it? Here it's been bitter cold - even in the south. My little students (grade 3) don't even have the proper clothes to be out in it.
Hope it lightens up for you. You will all REALLY appreciate the sun when it appears in earnest.
As I write it is still blowing and raining here, Tim, and it seems like it it is never going to stop. I don't mind the grey so much as all that wind.
I have seen the results of the cold you have been experiencing in the US, and know it is no fun to go through it, especially for those ill prepared.
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