Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Mother of Chaos]

Oh, that’s so sad! And all those basement apartments (“garden flats”?) and businesses.

 

[Perris]

Oh, that’s so sad! And all those basement apartments (“garden flats”?) and businesses.

they are almost all small (and mostly upmarket, independent) shops at street level on the high street, but the first or second floor is often flats, and the streets around that flooded too are residential. As it happens, apropos recent conversations, one of them was an excellent cheese shop, at least a couple of years ago when I was last there.

 

[NightingaleJen]

they are almost all small (and mostly upmarket, independent) shops at street level on the high street, but the first or second floor is often flats, and the streets around that flooded too are residential. As it happens, apropos recent conversations, one of them was an excellent cheese shop, at least a couple of years ago when I was last there.

How very sad. Poor souls.

 

[kattabelly]

further to that, this was last night
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74jevlv19go

Is it often bad there, do you know? The article mentions some kind of flood defences but doesn't go into detail.

I know someone who lives up near Bewdley and the new defences there are finally stopping the town flooding every time it rains a lot, from what I've heard.

 

[kattabelly]

There was an attempt at tree-hugging earlier today

(She's not hunched up from illness, I just caught her mid neck wobble)

 

[Perris]

Is it often bad there, do you know?

Monmouth sits at the confluence of 2 rivers, the Wye and the Monnow, and both are prone to get close to the top of their banks if there's been torrential rain in their catchments. But the flood defences have protected the built areas of the town by and large, and they're reporting this as the worst flooding in decades, having overtopped those defences.

 

[Shadrach]

Two and a half hours. Damp with half mist half drizzle later in the afternoon.
Everyone got out for a couple of hours.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

they are almost all small (and mostly upmarket, independent) shops at street level on the high street, but the first or second floor is often flats, and the streets around that flooded too are residential. As it happens, apropos recent conversations, one of them was an excellent cheese shop, at least a couple of years ago when I was last there.

We have a sump pump in our basement, and after Hurricane Helene (and the previous record rains) hit, it ran nonstop for about 24 hours, until the power went out for a couple of weeks. (We got off incredibly lightly, although we’re seeing evidence of settling and foundation damage.)

We now use it on our flat tarp-covered chicken run to drain accumulated rain.

 

[fuzzi]

Update on the Naked neck rooster:

He disappeared, and I felt bad that he might have been killed. But this afternoon as I was in my backyard I saw my neighbor, the one with chickens. Yes, it was his rooster, and it found its way home, is back in the run safe.

Happy ending.

 

[Molpet]

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