The town I work in, Guildford, found itself in a bit of high water this week. When I crossed the little bridge over the river into town in the morning yesterday, I noticed that the river was higher than it had been the previous night (when it was already a fair bit higher than usual). The water was now lapping over the footpath a few feet away from the edge of the river bank, and looked like it would be staying there for a while.
An hour or so later I looked out the window at work, and the river has risen again, to fully cover the footpath but about 20cm. At this point, I figured it was time to start taking a picture every now and then!
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First photo, at about 0945
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The water just kept rising, and pretty soon we were setting targets and picking markers along the wall. We chose the bottom of the first letter in the graffiti you can vaguely see to the right in that photo above.
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| At around 1030 it started raining and again the river rose, by around 10cm. |
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1130 and it had risen by about another 5cm this time.
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| View across the street. The YMCA to the right was close to flooding. |
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| Sun out and still the river rose. |
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| The same wall in the other photos, view down the river. To the left is apparently a warehouse where some sets for theatre productions are kept, and the water was only about 5cm away from the big barn type doors. |
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| The underpasses were out... |
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| The water was about calf height here, but at the deepest point right in the underpass would have been about waist height by the end of the day. |
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| The underpass roped off/ |
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| Car parks were empty, for once... |
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The bridge work that had been going on for the past week was left alone. The scaffolding was
still up when we went home, hopefully it'll survive! By the end of the day, the water was rising about 10cm every hour. |
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| No more pedestrian access for this path... |
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On the left is the river, on the right is the work car park. Water was gushing in and the
drain in the middle was blocked, so it became a private lake. |
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| This will probably be the last time the owner of this car decides to leave the car overnight. |
Wow! That's some serious flooding! I assume that it will all go away fairly quickly, once the rain has stopped for a while.
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That's a good photographic record. Wouldn't like to be living alongside the river that's for sure. That water would be freezing! Cathy
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