aye was a fair downpour today!
you just have to decide if you are going or not
if you go then you just have to get on with it
I cycled from the Gyle to Duddingston
Dundee terrace had a river flowing down it!
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Absolutely Chucking it down
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Murieston
Holy Corner
Leith
http://jameschristiephotographer.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/leith-storm-july-8-2011
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Theory here (from someone with some expertise) is that the storm sewer system was surcharged, which caused covers to come off in some areas and also explains some of the flooding.
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That's what happened at Napier (can't remember where I read that), but not Balcarres St.
That was water from B St. and, particularly, Comiston Road.
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but presumably it would have gone down the storm sewers if they were not already full?
storm sewer lid also observed ajar at Hutchingson Crossways - people out by it, making sure no one drove in.
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Cycle home was boringly dry, barely any puddles to splash through!
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"presumably it would have gone down the storm sewers if they were not already full?"
Yes, but, perhaps.
I think B. St. (and other places) doesn't have enough drainage gullies to deal wIth the 'once in a hundred year' events that seem to be happening more often.
A few years ago some gullies in various parts of Edinburgh were frequently/permanently blocked. The reason/excuse was that drain cleaners couldn't get to them because of parked cars.
Now it's much more common for the council to give notice of parking suspension a few days ahead to make sure cars aren't in the way when the cleaning lorry cones round.
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"the Met Office issued a flood warning for the eastern half of Scotland for today. (Sat)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Thunder-hail-and-floods-it.6798459.jp
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Notice how nearly every pic of the floods has a cyclist in it? Maybe there _are_ more of us about :)
But how clueless are the guys in the flooded VW? ""The water was coming up in the van. ... Then the engine cut off. It was smoking." Wouldn't turning the engine off have been a good idea? (probably just steam, but still...)
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"The drains have completely clogged up and I've been told there's an underground river system below us."
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh/Panic-stations-as-flash-floods.6798671.jp
Think Council/Scottish Water will have to look at drains/capacity issues.
I think the "river" was culverted when the railway was built and probably connected to the sewer rather than continuing to the Jordan Burn.
I doubt if anything would have been able to cope with the amount of water coming down Comiston Road. A lot continued down Morningside Road and flooded around Maxwell Street but dispersed much more quickly.
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Grahams the plumbers (between us and Recombodna) is closed due to flooding. There seems to be a collector for the storm sewer system outside them, that was making a lot of noise last night, don't know if that was related or not (ie were they just inundated by water off the road (i was mainly looking out the back, but the road didn't seem that bad), or if the system was flooded.
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Today's 'river' -
Balcarres Street flooded again, but not as much as yesterday.
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the BBC seem to think we are having a light shower
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Fine and dry in FK1, I assume it's raining in Auld Reekie?!
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"I assume it's raining in Auld Reekie?"
Not at the moment -
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The house right across the road from me was hit by lightning this afternoon. We were sitting in the front room, then suddenly the place lit up with a huge lightning flash and the most enormously loud CRACK that made me jump out of my skin. Then a half second later some very loud thunder.
"Wow, that was REALLY close", we thought, "could almost have been across the road!" and went back to what we'd been doing; until a few minutes later three fire engines turned up, blue lights flashing, and disgorged firemen who went charging into the houses across the road. Then a vast fire engine cherry picker turned up and dangled a fireman over the roof, presumably looking for a fire. No fire, no casualties though. Then they all went away again. Excitement over.Posted 12 years ago # -
It's not all bad news. The heavy rain has swept away part of the path near Blackboard Pond revealing this beauty.
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Youth Inter-Regional Cycle Championships that I was marshalling at in Coupar Angus were rained off during the boys' race after 4.5 of 9 laps. Shame for them, but there were getting to be too many falls and accidents.
Arrived back to Haymarket to the storm so took sanctuary in the bike shelter while I waited for it to ease a bit.
This photo summed it up. Taxi driver seemed reluctant to pull the passenger door up to the bit of the pavement that wasn't under water for the old dear.
That's it. Little bit more. Little bit more by kaputniq, on FlickrPosted 12 years ago # -
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Fraser Ralston, a forecaster with the Met Office, said that the level of rain Edinburgh experienced over the weekend was not unusual for the summer and said the Capital will "definitely" flood again, although there is no way of predicting when.Mr Ralston said: "It's not unusual to get this sort of heavy downpour in the summer, but a lot of the time it occurs in the countryside where no-one but the farmer notices.
"http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/topstories/Businesses-urged-to-make-plans.6800050.jp
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