Prepping for Brexit thread

unrecordings

boultdj wrote: »

Sorry Un, I've just moved to Lincolnshire and I can tell you, yes there is a lot of water in the fields a lot of flooding and I'm not looking forward to the drive back to Derbyshire to see family, so grab them spud's at £5.50.

Deep water over there ? Hope there's nowhere near as much damage as around Donny. I think the concern in the news article was that the water was deep enough & was going to hang around long enough to 100% wreck the crops in the ground. Minor relatively short lived inundations may be survivable for certain crops ? Again, dunno, but there will be the contamination aspect to be considerered. I tried googling and ended up at the mind boggling potato paradox which is pretty much the reverse of how my odema is going (how can you go to the toilet twice and be heavier than beforehand ?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox

Safe journey back...

boultdj

In places very deep, not helped by some of the ditch wall's starting to brake.

unrecordings

Funnily enough in one of my rare adventures outdoors, we sallied North today towards [STRIKE]the source of the Don[/STRIKE] Fox Valley Retail Park and it was quite interesting to see the former industrial sites flattened, levelled and marked out for housing, but still fairly low lying on the former floodplain of this steep sided valley. A mile or two down the valley in Deepcar you could still see the odd sandbag (mainly from run off from the hills by the looks of it) and patches of flooded meadow. Makes you wonder how many of these people are struggling/will struggle to get insurance.

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Horribly wet in our part of Gloucestershire and we drove over to Ross this morning to go to Morrissons and the roads are flooded in several places already, passable now but the rain is still falling as heavily, no surcease since last night when it started and I feel it will stop traffic before too long. Neighbour has just rung to say the brook across the road is running really high and can she put her car on our drive, which of course she can, I hope the brook stays in it's course as our downstairs bedrooms are not that much higher. Will keep an eye and move everything moveable if possible, not nice at all!

euronorris

Bargain potatoes obtained! Also grabbed a sack for a colleague. Still had plenty left too. Dead chuffed

Mx_Emmin

euronorris wrote: »

Bargain potatoes obtained! Also grabbed a sack for a colleague. Still had plenty left too. Dead chuffed

Just as well

unrecordings

Mx_Emmin wrote: »

Just as well

Oh dear
Didn't realise Lincolnshire got it so bad (apart from boultdj's posts). All the news seems to have been focussed round here.

boultdj

And we are mainly hearing about here and south Yorkshire, but friends and family are posting on facebook local to them flooding, so I'm also seeing Derbyshire and south wales with bad floods, and now wales with snow, so I think it's safe to say it's been widespread rain and flooding.

DigForVictory

It's wet in Lancashire just not as headline grabbing. The upside is even "buy it only when we need it" husband agrees a sack of spuds is a good idea, after I explained floods mean fewer spuds.

Now, where to find a thumping great sack, & where to store safe free of moth, rust, flooding, frost & vermin...

herbily

Anywhere dry... not that easy at the moment! (Not sure potato moth is a thing, though?) Keep them in the boot of the car, helps with cornering :-)