Floods

[4th gen Suthen']

Worst floods ever seen in this corner of south Kintyre last night.
Much damge done.

[Malky]

Was at the Rhoin last night and the Southend branch of the family said there was flooding and they passed fire engines on the road. What happened?

Malky

[4th gen Suthen']

will tell all after I get back from the church.

Still
But could have been much much worse.

[4th gen Suthen']

I gathered much info at the church and have, kind of, figured out the worst of the deluge was on the line of and to the east of the main Southend road from about Auchencorvie south. Maybe you can picture that corner of Kintyre.

ALL the chat and conversation was of the worst flood in Southend history...certainly the worst in our SE corner.

But now I need to go and sort the road!

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Wow, 4th! Sorry to hear that.

[Ninja Mania]

Drama out of a crisis springs to mind, or in you fermers cases, making a river out of a wee burn.

[4th gen Suthen']

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!

[Ninja Mania]

Whats my new number plate got to do with it, easy seen who your new friends are. Memphis.
Was going to pop in yesterday for a wee cup oh tea, and a blether. maybe later 4th gen.
Will ye have enough water?

[kintyre 84]

4th Gen, apologies for my husband trivialising your woes.

Back at work today and the reports from the road workers are horrendous .... they have never seen anything like it.

Tales from caravan owners are almost unbelievable. Hard to imagine! Drama indeed.

That will be the Roads budget blown again!

[The Hitman]

Any photographs?

[4th gen Suthen']

I will take photo's tonight. I can still run round that way but it takes quite a bit of clambering round the high barriers.

No problems 84, I know he is all heart really!

[EMDEE]

The flooding seems to have been quite widespread. Report from today's Scotsman and a bit of discussion:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/39U ... 4375761.jp

We were over on the Island of Luing on Saturday night/Sunday, and there was nothing more than intermittent periods of drizzle there.

[The Hitman]

Weather is not looking too good for this week again!

Is it true a bridge got washed away!?

[chrisduffy]

Just got back from my summer ( !) stay at Pennyseorach, 5 mile detour round the bridge, hope ABC get it sorted soon, it must be a real pain when you need to do it every day. There must have been a helluva lot of water looking at the amount of rubble moved by the burns and I see that they got a similar storm in Northern Ireland soon after.

[chrisduffy]

I know it is old news now, but I have just been sent these pics taken during the storm . They were taken at the road bend where the tracks of Pennyseorach and Aucharua meet at about 8-30