Wol's Riverbank tales: Part 3 Restoration

ZTD

Wol2 wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: - and they were hessian bags for a change instead of the horrible plasticky ones :T:T- but had half as much sand in them so didn;t go very far :mad: - still at least I could lift these ones

The idea with sandbags, is that you only half-fill them so not only are they liftable, but they "mould" properly to seal gaps. You use quantity to make up for half-filling them. Perhaps 14 is the new lucky number...

With only 14 of them, you could name them. Something along the lines of:
Scott Sandbag
Virgil Sandbag
Alan Sandbag
Gordon Sandbag
John Sandbag
Jeff Sandbag
Brains Sandbag
Lady Penelope Sandbag
Parker Sandbag

Coz they're just like International Rescue - but on a smaller scale...

Fourteen sandbags...sheesh... :rolleyes:

Lula-Hula

Hey hun,

sloshing down over here so hope you grabbed those extra sandbags & are holding tight. Thinking of you & sending positive vibes. Thinking of you & do call if you need help, please.

xx

Wol2

Where's the rest of the rain...seems God burped and threw it off course 20 miles East..:j:j:T:T:cool:.........sorry Tunbridge Wells :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

All OK here...:T:T:T....well at least I'm sure it was/is but haven;t looked outside.......been on phone to piggie specialist for last two hours....still nowhere near diagnosis ..but helps to have an outsiders point of view with no set agenda on proving their "favoured diagnosis". They said "don;t assume all your piggies have the same thing - the symptoms you describe could also be broken down into separate conditions for different pigs" and went through all the possible options with me. Very useful.......so now we'll see what happens with the poos....:cool:

xx

Buffythedebtslayer

very glad you are doing ok Wol, and wow at the piggie specialist very cool

((take care ))

So_Sad_Angel

Hi Wol

Phew I hope thats the back of the rain for you....its sods law that if you had`nt prepared properly it would have been a whole lot worse!

Glad your holding it all together.....you are one tough Wol !!

Take care,

Angiexx

Lula-Hula

Glad you've all survived the night without resorting to wellies

Wol2

Hello everyone
Thank you all for keeping your fingers crossed - looks like it did the trick :T. The collective power of DFW scales new heights in holding back the waters of the stream :rotfl::rotfl:

We got another shedload of rain between midnight and 2am, but I didn;t wait up and went to bed. :cool:. I'm pretty sure we had 30mm over the course of last night, but thankfully it didn;t fall to fast too quickly so the stream just about coped ( oops sorry Environment Agency I believe the technical term is "stayed in bank":D)
I vaguely recall crawling to the window about 4am and thinking that there was a lot of water in the front garden so I suspect it rose high enough to breach the low bank areas but not enough to start running towards the house

Regardless of what may have happened while I was asleep, this morning Piggie Palace is dry inside and the stream is back down which is what counts :T:T

More heavy rain showers forecast this evening and tuesday so looks like I'll be staying on alert for a few days but at least everything is organised and in place and the stream is having time to recover between bouts.:D

Toddles off to kiss piggies good morning

Have a good day everyone -
xxx

Karmacat

Good grief Wol..... this is dreadful! I'm so glad the stream didn't breach its banks (out of banks sounds suspiciously like an out-of-body event, are you sure the Environment Agency don't deal with aliens too?) can you tell whether the water did get to the garden last night? What are the plants looking like?

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

(out of banks sounds suspiciously like an out-of-body event, are you sure the Environment Agency don't deal with aliens too?)

Sometimes you got to wonder if the EA *are* aliens...

Though its probably just that they're being staffed by moonlighters from the FSA - they've had a lot of "out of banks" experiences recently...

Karmacat

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Love it, Z!