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It was so heavy tonight like a monsoon, some of the floods were so deep I had to go through in 4 wheel drive! Visibility nil. It stopped for about 10 seconds when I got home so I stripped all the waterlogged heads off the petunias and gave the poor old waterlogged chooks some corn even with a covered run the rain has been driving into the run it looks like the Somme!!!!! JULY??????

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Not sure where you are Treekeeper but at least here we've not had any flooding. Has been quite heavy though and I had to don DH's waterproofs to go out to the girls earlier. There's even more rain pouring into the run from the roof. Surprisingly the girls had even gone in there about 3 hours before bedtime so it must have been bad as they usually just shelter under the cube or the bushes.

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I drive through North Yorkshire and Lancashire 40 miles between work and home roads flooded and rivers overflowing in both counties today and tonight my wife works in Cumbria and they normally walk down by the Kent to get lunch but couldn't today as the river had come right over the path. Hope you're getting some of this now Jools (in the nicest possible way of course) I know what it's like relying on a natural water supply we have one on the family croft in Scotland.

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Our water has been running for a couple of weeks now, mind you it's been falling out of the sky for that long too! We're lucky that our supply is only for us, so as soon as it stops running, we know we only have one tankful and go straight to ration-mode. :roll:

 

Although it has rained huge amounts in the last couple of weeks, the ground is noticably drier than you'd expect, which shows just how dry it has been. I normally have to wear wellies to see to my big chooks as the track becomes a pond, but it's bone dry still and my wellies are covered in cobwebs. I imagine that the rain is still being absorbed by the dry ground and the run-off that fills the reservoirs just isn't enough yet. I've been using the A59 and M62 recently and noticed the reservoirs there are also well below capacity. It does make me wonder how much rain we actually need to re-fill them.

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Just one nights rain. That is all I ask!! Just one...

 

My grass - well, it used to be grass - is very brown and "crunchy" beneath the feet. The veg patch I am having to water daily - but so much is bolting so quickly. My waterbutt has been empty for weeks. The chooks have their own sun umbrella shading their run, but one chook in particular is really struggling with the continual heat and dryness, poor thing. There are cracks appearing in the ground, and it is all so dusty! Won't be long before start seeing the smoke from the heathland fires I am sure - everything is so dry it wouldn't take much to start a fire out there.

 

Yet we don't have a hosepipe ban...? :doh:

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I've got one of those who's taken up residence in one of my hanging baskets! it took me a while to realise why every time I watered it, a cross robin flew out. Then I saw the most beautiful nests and the eggs.

 

So actually, I'm hoping for a bit of rain because I can't water the basket now. He'll be OK as the nest is sheltering under an enormous bizzie lizzie.

 

Tricia

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I had to go and give a drought situation briefing to a council meeting in Accrington this week. I virtually had to shout, so they could hear me over the sound of the torrential rain drumming on the roof!

 

How stupid did I feel?! :doh:

 

In the Environment Agency North West we are having to deal with drought and flooding simultaneously. That must be a first for us! :shock:

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Bits of blue sky here today.

We have a resident pheasant and for the last six weeks he has been in really poor feather. With the constant rain I don't think he has moved much from our borders. He looked so wet, bald and dejected last night so I managed to catch him. Eprinex,feed and warm cardboard box overnight. Thought he'd be a gonner this morning but, hey ho he's still here and just flown off. Made my morning :D:D

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Thankfully we got some rain here today. Hopefully the chickies will start laying again, and I can let them out to range this afternoon on the multitude of slugs that will have appeared.

 

Also the pond will have filled up again so the frogs and newts can start swimming properly once more.

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Anyone watch Countryfile on BBC1 earlier this evening? It was a Cumbria special and featured Haweswater, explaining why the water levels are so low and what they're doing to link supplies from Cumbria and North Wales for the Manchester and Liverpool areas. It looks like Haweswater is still well below normal levels - though I'd be quite pleased if someone would turn the rain tap off for a little while now please. :roll:

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