Dorian Speakman" "dorian wrote:
cupra wrote:
Dorian Speakman" "dorian wrote:
Met Office have put out a warning of possible flooding for later
this week, and looking at the surface chart there seems some
similarity with the Easter 1998 floods for Northampton - converging
fronts lying east to west
though wet conditions previous to the downpours occured there.

Remember that well, the journey home from Bedford to Northampton
took about 2 1/2 hours as each route I went down seemed blocked. At
the time I lived opposite an area that's now been built on.... it
was a couple of feet under the water back then.....

I take it where you lived is now protected by the new Nene flood
defences then?

I lived he

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...4614&encType=1

Still got photos of the fields opposite under water, somewhere....


...I wonder if all the cuts in flood defence programmes will come to
be regretted by Defra?...

I'm not up to date with Northants any more....