Wet One
Wet One
Anyone who still wants to debate the effect of climate change on the UK needs to pay Yorkshire a visit. On the way up to the hall passing through Long Preston fields which would usually play host to hundreds, possibly thousands of cattle were submerged and as you get closer to the hall, although you get higher that doesn’t mean that we’re entirely immune from the effects of a consistent downpour. This particular one seems to have been going on all week and as the fields struggle to hold much more, it starts to make its way downhill including through the Keasden Beck which fronts the hall.
It looks higher in the picture because of the daft angle I was sitting at the time, but still, the water level at full flow managed to make it to around a metre below the height of the road. As news reports come in of towns and roads downstream flooding, my heart goes out to the families who will be spending the next few weeks, possibly months in hotels or sofa surfing with relatives in the knowledge their premiums will only keep going up.
We knew back in 2015 that the flood risk assessment for the hall was a little off in its prediction for the flood zones but it doesn’t make life any easier for the people downstream.