The Kintyre Forum

I've never seen flooding like that in and around Campbeltown in all my life!! Hope everyone is okay and power restored at Machrihanish? New water system certainly isn't coping with the amount of water falling!

I`ve only just seen the Courier report and pictures of the flooding, I do hope that everyone is OK.

ultraviolet wrote:I've never seen flooding like that in and around Campbeltown in all my life!! Hope everyone is okay and power restored at Machrihanish? New water system certainly isn't coping with the amount of water falling!

I have seen many floodings over the years,the glen/river course below our house in Carradale,roads in other area's,but have never seen the likes of Campbeltown yesterday late afternoon through the evening.
We were paged around 5pm yesterday along with Tarbert Fire and Rescue Service to assist the Campbeltown appliances.Never seen water like it,well over knee deep in places and flowing like a torrent down some streets.We returned home after midnight,hopefully all is well this morning.

As our last post some photo's courtesy of the Courier .
http://www.campbeltowncourier.co.uk/201 ... -flooding/

The power in Machrihanish was finally restored about 2am on Saturday morning after being off from about half past 3 on Friday afternoon. Huge respect to all the people out working in these conditions, restoring power and diverting water from people's homes.

Yeah - huge respect to all involved!