floods – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:36:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg floods – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 It’s all in the name https://shepline.com/2007/07/23/ita%c2%80%c2%99s-all-in-the-name-2/ https://shepline.com/2007/07/23/ita%c2%80%c2%99s-all-in-the-name-2/#respond Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:43:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/ita%c2%80%c2%99s-all-in-the-name-2/ Whilst my heart goes out to all those affected by this weekend’s flooding, one has to think that you should not be surprised when flood plains flood. After all, the event is there in the name isn’t it?

Upton-on-Severn Floods

I also find this picture of Upton-on-Severn very facinating. Upton-on-Severn? Too right, it’s Upton on Severn! But also, look carefully at the outline of the old town. Yup, it’s dry, and it’s bordered precisely by the flood waters. Centuries ago, our ancestors new what they were doing…

]]> https://shepline.com/2007/07/23/ita%c2%80%c2%99s-all-in-the-name-2/feed/ 0 Living on the Lakeside https://shepline.com/2007/01/08/living-on-the-lakeside/ https://shepline.com/2007/01/08/living-on-the-lakeside/#respond Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:10:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1557 Anyone living in the UK will of course be aware that, following the days of fog pre-Christmas, we have been treated to days of rain post-Christmas. It has, to put it simply, been very wet. So wet in fact that I am now living on the shore of a lake. I’m not exactly sure how big a lake needs to be in order to be called such a thing, and if I’m honest we’re probably not talking a real lake, but I would definitely say that it is too big to be counted as a puddle. What’s more I have to drive through it, and reverse into it in order to leave for work and park my car in the evening. It’s big; it’s wet; and its not going away.

Okay, I’ll fess up. It’s blocked drain, or a blocked soak-away, I’m not entirely sure of the exact technical description of the whole in the ground with the broken grate over the top which is currently not doing the job for which it was intending. I’ve had an exploratory poke at it with a long stick, and even stuck my hand down as far as I dare, and I deduce that it is well and truly blocked. I also have a nasty feeling that it is my responsibility being technically speaking being situated in the miniscule part of England which I happen to own.

Tomorrow I shall phone the council and, pleading all ignorance say that there is a blocked drain thing at the end of C****** Gardens which is causing a flood. Hopefully they’ll come along with some variety of big lorry thing, hopefully with those fashionable flashing lights, pand suck whatever build up of yucky soily stuff is down there out.

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