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  1. coldfingers
    Oh dear, they have just put the Felpham area on a flood warning! So I will be watching that river closely. I really hope they have installed pumps down where it flows into the sea as the tides aren't large ones so it doesn't get long to flow out. I will set the alarm for around high tide in the early morning and get up to check the river. When I walked past the river a couple of hours ago it was as high as I have seen it ever and it didn't have a flood warning then, just a flood watch!
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    Yes we were signed up to the phone alert system. I got a letter 2 weeks ago saying as our house was unlikely to flood we were being removed from the flood alert system!!! Do I laugh or cry? Not really necesary though as I can look out of my window, across the Felpham recreation ground (currently flooded by a couple of inches) and see if the river is overtopping the banks. Mind you, with the surface water on the cricket pitch it is hard to see anyway. Had to wear wellies to get through a few inches of flooding to get to shops. As you say, quite a day but I think my house is safe although I have a plastic trug in the garden that is full with 6 inches of water and was dry 20 hours ago. I think the rainfall was around 4 inches though as the trug has sloping sides so wider at the top. Thanks for your concern though Polar Bear.
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    Hi Polar Bear, Bognor town center is mainly OK, I had to go there to health centre with son to get a medical report as he is off sick and has to go to Portsmouth for a benefits medical tomorrow. Health Centre was just about to close because of flooding when we got there. Not sure if we will be able to travel to Portsmouth or not tomorrow. Hopefully the flooding will go down a bit at barnham so the trains will stop there and we can get our connection. Not much chance by road I don't think although some buses are getting through in some places. The road at the end of my road has flooding in peoples houses. I felt so very sorry for this elderly ledy standing calf deep in water inside her house. She said she had rung the fire brigade but they told her they already had 100 other people ahead of her and as her life wasn't at rish she has to wait her turn. When I passed on the way back the neighbours were throwing all her soggy carpets and spoiled furnishing outside her front door for her. I did feel bad for her! All the severe flooding in Felpham is very close to me and the Aldingbourne Rife runs about 200yards from my house. Not flooded yet and fortunately we are on slightly elevated ground so I don't think my house will flood nut some bungalows close to it will almost certainly.
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    Well we certainly did have that monsoon. Son-in-law had to drive his mother to hospital in Portsmouth for cancer treatment. He got there OK but was stranded trying to get back into Bognor as every road into Bognor was closed because of flooding. One very nice man with a 4X4 stopped and gave him and his mother a lift through the floods and even drove her to her doorstep. there are some really kind people around. He however had to wade back to collect his car as he couldn't leave it in case the water rose higher and flooded it. Every road into Bognor is currently flooded and impassable in a normal car. Brother a bus driver, he said as he drove carefully through the floods the water was seeping in the doors and running along the floor with all the old ladies squeeking in fright! Now we can't get out by train either as the train station at Barnham is flooded so no trains from Bognor. Hey ho, it's summertime, I think!
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    Absolutely dreadful here, been raining since 8:00pm last night and it has been constantly heavy to torrential rain. At least 3" have fallen as I left a plastic bowl on the lawn by mistake last night. Was empty, now overflowing. Road to the east, a few hundred yards from my house is closed due to flooding, road to the North closed due to flooding, west is flooding but passable. Just been crazy weather. I have lived here 45 years and never seen this much rain in less that 24 hours. Traffic report. A259 Felpham Way Felpham, Bognor Regis A259 Live travel More details Road closed and delays due to flooding Last updated 17 minutes ago Map Email [*] A27 Chichester A27 Live travel More details Road closed and queueing traffic due to flooding Last updated 21 minutes ago Map Email [*] A29 Shripney Road Shripney A29 Live travel More details Road closed due to flooding Last updated 28 minutes ago
  6. coldfingers
    Well congratulations to all you lucky people who got shovelfuls of snow. Get out there and enjoy it! Here we had nothing but rain but not too disappointed as that is all I expected from this.
  7. coldfingers
    Now, now GTL. remember your manners. LOL. and goodnight from me. And here is hoping for a new week.
  8. coldfingers
    Got it in one SOTONSNOW. I take it you didn't get any then? My twin brother lives in Soton so at least I wont get a taunting phonecall tomorrow!.
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    Don't worry Liam, one day it will be a BIG event and it is usually a more unexpected one. It is the marginal event here that bring the biggest snowfall. Sadly they can disappear just a quickly but sometimes we get lucky. Patience is the only word to describe it and Nil desperandum.
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    Yes I remember that one. The bakery in Brighton at the time was on the top of a very steep hill. Result? No bread for anyone supplied by them. I was working in a shop at the time so it was an enduring memory of grumpy customers complaining that we only had a tiny bit of snow so where was their bread. LOL. Brighton must be a lovely place to live and Eastbourne is even better for snow.
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    Aaaaargh!!! Bashes head on keyboard in despair. Temp still goung UP, UP, UP. Now 2.6C. Not enough time now for anything much even if the temperature did a cliff dive. An early night for me I think. For all who have snow, enjoy it and I really hope it lasts for you all.
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    Hello OMM I have lived down here since 1965 and never yet had more than I wished for and very rarely what I did wish for. I am a total snow nut living in a snow desert though so i think that says it all!
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    Ant the best time for snow down here IS Feb or even early March.
  14. coldfingers
    Can you tell me what your temp is please? Here is still just rain and temp still 2.5C.
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    Hi Polar Bear and many thanks for the good wishes. That wind is ODD! Temp here has crept up to 2.5C and the wind has increased to Force 6!!!! Odd indeed.
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    Cheers GTL I will stay up and hope for just a little longer then. Sadly temp now crept up to 2.5C Aaargh, throws herself in frozen river! Oh curses, it thawed.
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    Hi GTL, sadly I haven't been that well but nothing a little snow wouldn't fix. More blood tests Monday. I really NEED that snow. As for pink, I hate it really and have never worn it despite being a lady, and not the Little Britain sort either. But for snow I would even wear pink! LOL Hope you are well too and DO enjoy that snow! Edit: I forgot to say, my current temperature here in Bognor is a balmy 2.4C and showing no sign it will drop. A shame really as the small river close to me was frozen over this morning and I haven't seen that happen for 13 or 14 years. Not even last December.
  18. coldfingers
    Probably yes because everyone who has snow is currently at the window watching it fall not daft enough to waste the pleasure looking at posts by us sad snowless peeps.
  19. coldfingers
    Ah that is so sweet, a ray of hope in the deep gloom of our despair. Haha. Well here's hoping because all i have, (as I really expected I would) is wind and rain. Such is life and tomorrow (or even next week) is another day.
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    Nick, did no-one ever tell you it is wicked to mock the afflicted. :lol:
  21. coldfingers
    Thanks Polar bear, can you turn the green over me to pink do you think. A little bit of magic could do it! Pink is such a lovely colour when it signifies snow. LOL. Currently light rain here and as always I follow the netweather local forecast that showed rain for me all along. Haha, I always hope they are wrong when they don't show snow for me, but good old netweather always gets it right! GRR.
  22. coldfingers
    I think it must have done, I haven't seen either one flake of snow nor one drop of rain yet. I reckon I live in the driest pace on the south Coast. It always seems to stop as it reaches here and start again at littlehampton. Now that really is a microclimate.
  23. coldfingers
    Yes i am pleased about that. It gives here a chance for the temps to drop and at least give us an incy chance of seeing something. I don't even ask for anything to settle, just to see some falling would be fun.
  24. coldfingers
    I can understand your irritation, what many don't realise is that it often snows on the I.O.W when it rains in Portsmouth and bedhampton IS the Portsomouth area. Why that should happen I also don't understand but even Bognor has had marginal snow while Portsmouth have had rain. I don't mean we had snow in Bognor today, just other times.
  25. coldfingers
    Not quite sure where you got the 1.7 for Bognor, I wish! Currently 2.4 here. A very bitter strong wind though so wind chill could perhaps be a lot lower.
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