Could you get where you need to get without crossing a river.
The stories of what has happened up in the lake district are tragic and after watching Sky news for a day you start to wish for that bridge to collapse as waiting for it is tiresome (here is a camera on a bridge about to collapse at some time in the future) and it must be so upsetting for the people who need to get from A to B and are unable to as the police and army won't let them cross the bridge and the bridge is still there the next day so they could have crossed it and survived.
Anyway I have consulted a map and I can't get to horrid town without crossing a river bridge but I hate it there anyway.No. One way has a motorway bridge over the Test but it is more like flood plain at that point so the bridge would be OK, and the other way has a bridge over a stream and another one over the Test in Romsey.
But where we live is chalk in the middle and North of Hampshire, so the water seeps down into the chalk aquifers and it takes a huge amount of rain to make things tricky. But what happens is that the watertable comes up, and when this happened a few years ago SUBLs in older properties had to have pumps getting rid of the water all the time because their cellars were being flooded from underneath their houses. Those pumps were running for weeks.Bridges all over the place round here. Massive one over the deep, wide River Avon on the way into our nearest big-town, Evesham, that flooded massively and scarily two years ago. (lots of narrow-boats moored under the bridge into Evesham. Always make me think of Sue! I don't think she ever made it this far though.)
Mini ones over the River Isbourne all over the place.
Stay in if possible! ( mind you I keep saying this to myself but find many reasons to go out from one day to the next as I don't trust the local postbox and am always thinking of little errands to do in the village.)It's the little journeys that are so heartbreaking. A short walk to school for some children is now a 2 hour drive. Why aren't the army there now erecting temporary bridges instead of faffing about in Iraq and Afghanistan?Why can't the children just change schools to one on their side of the river. This is what is expected of children whose parents move far away from their old school so this is only the same except with different causes.
They did mention the army a few days ago on one of the news items. Apparantly it is the wrong sort of riverbank land for the type of temporary bridges armies can put up.
In the first days after the flood they showed people walking across the bridge anyway. I suppose they just pulled up the tape of the cordon, muttered and went on their way. Unless the police arrested them - and crossing a bridge is not yet a crime is it - they would have had to let them cross.
Do the army actually have powers to shoot people trying to cross checkpoints in peace time though. Or do people just think they do which amounts to the same thing I suppose.I can't imagine Mr Churchill taking too kindly to the news 'We couldn't cross that river, Prime Minister, we had the wrong sort of bridge.'The Royal Engineers are being run by Network Rail and there are leaves on the riverbanks.Good old Network Rail will be saving the day this time.
Their railway bridge is still standing so they can build a temporary station and people can then get across the river by the railway bridge.
It is all very exciting isn't it, do you think someone is planning Cumbria Floods The Movie already.They should challenge Anneka to sort out these bridges.
It is all very exciting isn't it, do you think someone is planning Cumbria Floods The Movie already.
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