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So despite the Police advising against non-essential travel they expected you to make your way through flooded and closed roads to work at a closed transport museum? Tossers!

My friend from the previous post is ok as the water only reached her foundation and didn't get in to the house. Others have not been so lucky. An old school mate lives here and is counting himself lucky they still have power. They had the foresight to move their vehicles to higher ground last night even though the floods have never reached that far before now.

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And this is one of the local hotel's car park

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I suspect this weekend I'll be helping in the clean up operation for quite a few people
 
Bloody hell!

Well, here's the thing. The flood at Sauchen may have damaged the bridge, hence the closure today. The roads weren't particularly flooded but the stretch from Dunecht - Echt was still quite bad. Wouldn't have liked to have done that in the dark this evening, for sure.

According to Fubar the road was still closed until late morning with only idiots passing and ignoring the police closure. The 15 minutes I headed to work I must have passed 2 cars heading city bound - usually its many 00's times that, so clearly most folk heeded the advice and stayed at home.

Wihile I accept being a man down, while we prep for the new season, isn't maybe ideal I'm just not willing to take that chance that the Alfa may or may not make it to work. It's simply not worth it.

Final point today the police advised to only make essential journeys. Not quite sure that counts.
 
Mrcento said:
I work at an animal shelter about a minutes walk from the river and we're in serious trouble as it is, the pens are pissing in water faster than we can bail it out (we're currently using over 100 giant towels a day on one block alone), the places are all structurally weakened and were swaying in the wind, creaking, groaning, the animals are all s*** scared, several of the pens roofs have been damaged... then there's the actual building itself which has started to fall down with the weight of water in the leaking roof. Then there's the retaining wall behind the place which if it goes.... which there was serious worry about in the summer, forget all this rain.... i shudder to think of what would happen :cry:, that's just what's coming from the sky already before we consider the risk the tay coming to meet it...........

I'm effectively on 24hr call as the fast response. Yeah and the cinq is my transport... and it's complaining, noticed quite a few little coughs, especially off throttle, not sure if it's just a sensor getting wet (likely crank) or what, it's running fine the majority of the time so just need to keep my fingers crossed it starts useable for now. And to think people thought i was weird when i said i was going to design my induction setup to work in all weathers.....
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Did your animal shelter make it through the night unscathed and has the cinq behaved itself?
 
Harper said:
Mrcento said:
I work at an animal shelter about a minutes walk from the river and we're in serious trouble as it is, the pens are pissing in water faster than we can bail it out (we're currently using over 100 giant towels a day on one block alone), the places are all structurally weakened and were swaying in the wind, creaking, groaning, the animals are all s*** scared, several of the pens roofs have been damaged... then there's the actual building itself which has started to fall down with the weight of water in the leaking roof. Then there's the retaining wall behind the place which if it goes.... which there was serious worry about in the summer, forget all this rain.... i shudder to think of what would happen :cry:, that's just what's coming from the sky already before we consider the risk the tay coming to meet it...........

I'm effectively on 24hr call as the fast response. Yeah and the cinq is my transport... and it's complaining, noticed quite a few little coughs, especially off throttle, not sure if it's just a sensor getting wet (likely crank) or what, it's running fine the majority of the time so just need to keep my fingers crossed it starts useable for now. And to think people thought i was weird when i said i was going to design my induction setup to work in all weathers.....
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Did your animal shelter make it through the night unscathed and has the cinq behaved itself?
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Yes and yes.

A lot of today has been patching up damage there whilst the overhead weather has been a lot better , but it's probably the most stable situation it's been for the past 2-3 weeks... ignoring the retaining wall which we've just no idea what toll it has taken and will need to be assessed in due course, but it's still there right now and we don't have tonnes of mud and rubble on us, which is nice.

The cinq has been fine today...well aside from the doors freezing shut overnight, but it's ran fine all day, pretty much confirming it was likely the crank sensor complaining at being fitted to a part time submarine :lol:
 
Found the stats for the river Ythan@Ellon on SEPA and bloody hell, no wonder we got flooded the way we did. The last highest recorded level was 3.344 m back in 2012 and on Friday at 04:45 the river reached 4.367 metres :eek: Thankfully it's now down to 2.776m even after last night's heavy rain. It's nearly triple what it should be but no properties are at risk for now.

Please, please, please let the rain stop. I'll even forgo snow if it means getting back to some sort of normality :(
 
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