Flooded again...

[Grimly]

Not the carbs, the workshop.
Overnight steady rain, that by itself wasn't enough to cause any concern, but it was on top of the previous two days' worth in fairly constant light rain that saturated the old bogland across the road and meant the drainage wasn't up to it any more.

flood oct 2022 3.jpg
After the last time, I've been careful to keep valuable stuff off the floor, the only casualty this time around was a Makita drill in its case which might be ok when dried out.

[rphillips]

Ya'll call it steady rain, over here it would probably be called "climate change". Nothing but a drill sounds good, but the dang messss can't be good. Luck to ya.

[Gorminrider]

Oh,no! Very sorry to see that...it's a nasty nightmare to have that happen.

[Brendan W]

That's a bummer. Need more bogs. I imagine it stops being funny after a while.

[Grimly]

That's a bummer. Need more bogs. I imagine it stops being funny after a while.

If the old bog was still a bog, and not drained farmland, this might not have happened. Otoh, maybe it might, I don't know.
What I do know for sure is that's twice in seven years and it never happened once in the twenty years before that.
The water backs up against the pillars of a stone arch bridge which is three arches and twelve feet high. That's one helluva volume of water the bridge can cope with, but when it gets beyond capacity the upstream just floods the banks and it comes across the road into mine.
I'm sure the bridge designers (probably from a 19th C catalogue of designs) were planning that it would cope with once-in-a-century events. They weren't daft, those old civil engineers.

[GregT]

That's not good at all. The frequency increasing is something we're noticing here too. But one contributing factor here is a lack of maintemance of the rivers and streams. Prior to an "overseeing authority" being established, the local councils looked after the rivers by periodically dredging and clearing them. Flow was maintained.
Since it's been overseen the rivers have not been dredged - ever. Like you, we have bridges sized for a pretty good flow. But if the downstream river bed can't handle it, it backs up.
The rural property we've been on for 20plus years now is on the market as we've downsized. We were worried about part of it being subject to flooding. The agents tell us not to worry as pretty well all properties in this area now have that caveat over them.

[Brendan W]

If the old bog was still a bog, and not drained farmland, this might not have happened. Otoh, maybe it might, I don't know.
What I do know for sure is that's twice in seven years and it never happened once in the twenty years before that.
The water backs up against the pillars of a stone arch bridge which is three arches and twelve feet high. That's one helluva volume of water the bridge can cope with, but when it gets beyond capacity the upstream just floods the banks and it comes across the road into mine.
I'm sure the bridge designers (probably from a 19th C catalogue of designs) were planning that it would cope with once-in-a-century events. They weren't daft, those old civil engineers.

Amen to that. They probably didn't even know they were 'engineers', they just did what had worked for times beyond their grandparent's time and they listened.
Don't get me started.

[Cipher]

Man flooding is nasty. I knew a philologist who had his library of rare books water logged in a flood. Freeze drying is the archivists go to for that but no facilities were available.
It was awful.

Now on a flood plain related theme. My ancestral home was on a river bend and there was one patch of low lying extremely fertile land that produce three crops of hay per season.
The flood plain further down stream was no arable. The patch was called "The Bogan" by everyone. SP may be incorrect so tell me if you can is this a word in Scotland Ireland or even England?

[Grimly]

The flood plain further down stream was no arable. The patch was called "The Bogan" by everyone. SP may be incorrect so tell me if you can is this a word in Scotland Ireland or even England?

All I could find was this...

https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/bog%C3%A1n

[Cipher]

All I could find was this...
https://www.teanglann.ie/en/fgb/bog%C3%A1n

Lovely resource thanks.
I recall that the original British isle immigrants to Prince Edward Island were Gaelic mother tongued.
as there were no priests who could speak Gaelic the bishop of Montreal had some ordered up to minister to them.

an bizarre accommodation from a francophone cleric under English rule.
ending threadjack now.

[Grimly]

Just discovered yesterday that a spare crank I'd acquired last year was under the water. Luckily, the crank was still covered in clingy engine oil, and no flash rust had started to happen. Checking all the bearings, they're all still silky smooth, so I slathered fresh engine oil all over it, wrapped it into a couple of bin liners and put it somewhere safe until I need it. Been meaning to build a good engine out of three and might try to make this a kickstart one if all the bits are there.

[Brendan W]

Anything I ever put somewhere safe I can never find

[argonsagas]

Anything I ever put somewhere safe I can never find

Yes to that thought.

Come over and look in garage. Yours things are probably hiding away with mine.