Humph!
I am still too truamatised to tell the tale...!
Except that the TARBERT fire brigade were here at 11.30 last night looking for a house where the residents were upstairs looking down at 3 feet of water in their main living quarters.
, the road between Aucharua road end and Dunglass is closed ...the bridge over the Crechan burn there is washed away...well, not quite but certainly no vehicle with more than 2 wheels could get over it. It is securily cordoned off with 8 foot high mesh fencing as well as the low level barriers and tapes...also, further up the road, back towards Aucharua, the tar has been lifted in waves....it is like what you see after an earthquake....and further up the tar is all pitted and in waves and with bubbles and holes, it looks like a pan of boiling water had frozen solid instantly.
All traffic has to come go up the Dou-in and round past Eden/Kildavie/Macharioch to get to Aucharua, Pennyseorach or Brunerican. I cant see the road being open any time soon. .......unless they send in the Royal Enngineers, but it is not a small job and I cant see it being that high up the A & B priority list.
I was out running last night at 5.30 and the rain came on as heavy as I had ever seen it. Foods came up in 10 mins and by the time I got home was soaked to the skin and running through ankle deep water. I thought THAT was as bad as it gets but 2 hours later it was 10x worse....
the amount of water thet fell between 8.15 and 9.45 was almost, literally, unbelievable....within 20 mins my sheds here were flooded, and flooded in a way I had never seen before.
I could see my shore road being gouged and washed away before my eyes. The water was building up behind the old Dukes Bridge to the shore....it was 20 or 30 feet high...it was backing up WAAAYY up the glen....the weight and pressure on the bridge must have been collosal, I was terrified the whole thing would collapse.....
I went out on the tractor in the near dark and still torrential rain....it was like a scene of flash flooding in Hondures or Haitii you see on TV. Just then the first of the police cars arrived
A very excited young boy from the shore came running in with tales of the raging, speeding, brown burn pulling massive trees with it to the sea and of a massive landslide on my cliffs......missing a caravan by inches
He was going on about it a bit much and I suggested, nicely! that he should calm down and STFU! ( I just thought that last bit !)
This morning all was quiet, the flood water gone, the burns still in full spate but NOTHING like the night before. I went around all the trouble spots in a state of severe trepidation.....it was bad enough but not as bad as I feared and not as bad as in many other places in Southend.
I hear of many farm roads being impassable and at least 2 houses badly flooded......
I fixed a stretch of my road this afternoon, I will do some more tomorrow, I can sort the flattened fences.
It could have been a lot worse and for some it was.
Oh, I feel less traumatised now!
It's good to talk! i'ntit Ninja Mania? you wae your new number plate!
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 10:26 am
Memphis. 
