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Paging the Gloucestershire folks (if there are any left)
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I'm supposed to be taking the family camping in Newent on Tuesday -
staying till Sunday so that I can catch the Blues in Gloucester on
Saturday.
Other than taking a lilo & water wings I guess all of the above is now
out of the question.
Anybody know how Newent and the roads around it have been affected?
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What I've only just discovered, and rather late for your enquiry but I
thought I might as well post the url ready for the next deluge, is
"Traffic news - live from BBC Gloucestershire". Seems to be fairly up to
date on road closures ...
(Last Friday afternoon I did a good deal of wading just of Newent while
the water was coming up, with escape routes disappearing rapidly. It was
fun and games down the lanes.)
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I wouldn't bother even trying.
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So I should't bother going to visit any of my stores around Malvern /
Ledbury / Cheltenham / Stroud area for a few days, then?
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TBH, should be fine. I wouldn't go camping, but going into shops is not
too bad.
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Not from that side, probably, but with the water rising in Gloucester
some of the roads around there are likely to flood again.
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Actually now would be a great time to go and see how they're coping;
there were fights in the local Somerfield this afternoon over the last
bottle of Perrier... After all, one has to be able to flush the loo"
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I've never seen Waitrose so packed, and I'm told there was a fight in
Tesco.
Apparently we may also be losing the electricity at some point - a
substation in Gloucester is under threat.
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(Guess this would also apply to Ross and Lydney, too)
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I left home at 10am Saturday for work. Got there after abandoning the car
on the A4110 near Monkland. Hitched a lift through >1m of water with a milk
tanker.
Did my shift, with three teenage kids, including a scheduled overnight
stay. 24 hour cabin fever. My relief failed to turn up Sunday lunch time so
I couldn't leave. Fortunately we could get out & about locally. My releif
arrived at 0815 this morning.
Roads to/from Hereford on the north & west are not too bad now. Trouble is
downstream. A49 Leominster bypass has washed away apparently. Traffic has
to go through the town.
Went to Ludlow yesterday: white water on the River Teme was impressive and
a little scary.. A bridge and some buildings had been destroyed a couple of
weeks ago, so another deluge made things a lot worse.
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The rivers are still rising and are expected to continue doing so
until at least Tuesday as the run-off from Wales reaches the rivers
Severn and Avon. On top of that there's likely to be more rain.
They're getting ready to evacuate the centre of Gloucester. The
A40/A417 junction is closed due to flooding - I think that probably
means the main route to Newent is cut off.
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Ah, this may explain the urgent e-mail from my mother-in-Oz,
"ARE YOU ALL RIGHT IN THE FLOODS? PLEASE REPLY URGENTLY!" Floods? What
floods? It hasn't even been raining much more than 12 hours per day.
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If my experience today is anything to go by, even if the water
subsides, the roads are strewn with abandoned cars, and the tarmac is
gone in places.
A water treatment station has been knocked out in Tewkesbury and we're
on the verge of running out of water - they expect that problem to
last for a minimum 72 hours. So we also have all the fun of people
panic buying as well. This affects the Gloucester/Cheltenham and
Tewkesbury areas - it may extend out as far as Newent but I don't
know.
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I've got a bottle of Tesco value sparkling water. Shall I ebay it?
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note that there may be limited ebay access in the affected areas
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Makes the old statement "Society is only three square meals away from
revolution" seem a bit tame really.
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Perhaps it will get it's botty smacked by a domstation for being
naughty.
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