for the second time in 3 months and the 3rd time this year rain has cut the North East off from the rest of the country yet again.

The A1, A19 and A167 shut so no way to go Noryth to Souuth and vice versa. Then most of the cross country roads also cut.

I have lived up here for 30 years and have never known this to happen before.

Apparently it is is once in a 100 year event.

With it happening 3 times this year does that make it a once in every 33 year event.

I just cannot get my head around the fact that for the sake of a 10 yard stretch of road which regularly floods it just causes absolute chaos.

Routes to the North East of the country are running just fine my little Englander friend...

Here we go again

16:24:19 359.1 International Produce Normanton Departed on FOXBRIDGE WAY

19:26:36 456.2 A1 TYNE AND WEAR NE13 7BW

Trains running OK to the north east, just come up from Brum to Leeds on the x-Country Glasgow train, someone in the seat across the aisle asked the ticket inspector if it was true that they were terminating at Darlington but his answer was that they were scheduled to go up the East Coast line to Edinburgh and then Glasgow and that was still OK.

On the way down this morning there was no services south of Bristol though

So i must have imagined it when i was driving on the A690 today over a closed A19 whilst listening to the radio that said the A1 was shut at Catterick and was shut north of Newcastle. To then be turned off the A690 because it was shut before working my way through Houghton Le Spring to the A 167 going towards Durham to be turned off because the A167 was shut

That wooosh wasn't an RAF pilot on training...

the poor north east.
we ve had a bit of drizzle down here too the last week or so!!!!

You should have started a thread then to tell us about it then.


However as there is only one proper road in rural Cornwall it hardly compares with an industrialised NE which relies on it's road infrastructure to get it's workforce to all the call centres and Civil service centres they work in.

why??
it rains in the uk , places get flooded.thats life.
in the next few weeks i reckon it might snow somewhere in the uk and places will be cut off.hopefully it wont be durhamshire(yes i know it doesnt exist) as it wont be fair on the people being cut off yet again as they are the only people who have suffered so far!!!

im getting so cynical in my old age!!

To be fair, it has been unusual.
I'm wondering if this is what we'll be seeing in coming years as well and, if so, what we need to be doing now to mitigate it.
e.g. New and bigger drains? Embanking rivers in populated areas? Slowing the run-off with planting at high levels, stopping peat and heather burning? Moving to the hills?

It's the future. Once the ice caps go and the sea level rises, you'll all have to swim ashore and live on the coast in Birmingham.



The Costa Del Salford is going to be the place to be in 15 years. Beach front apartments will go for millions.