On Tuesday, 26 January 2016 11:19:30 UTC, wrote:
"Eskimo Will" wrote in message news:...

"Eskimo Will" wrote in message news:...
10:45
Howling wind, moderate lashing rain, water already flowing off the moor
down the hill, mild at 8.5C, nothing more to say really. Just glad I
invested in some new green walking wellies before the winter!


11:00
Postbridge now gusting 42 knots with heavy rain at 8 mm/h and 8C. This is
going to be a wet one!


Sorry for repeated posts but just noticed something after emptying a litter
bin outside. The water on the patio outside my side door is actually rising
and has reached the top of the small step into the house. I have never seen
this before. OK the SW wind is driving the rain onto that side of the house,
but the ground underneath (slabs are on sand) must be well saturated, also
noticed the bottom of the house walls are very wet (outside that is). I'm
not that worried as it will drain off downhill after reaching a few inches
but it concerns me that our general area is now getting very wet. In 12
years I have never seen water flowing where it has been these past few
weeks. I think what has happened is that the persistence of "rain days" is
taking its toll now both summer and winter and the water table has probably
risen. We really need 4 weeks of dry weather to return to something more
like normality. Ha ha not going to get that in the near future. Glad I don't
live near a river, that would be a proper worry.

Just to make it clear for potential converts to dawball warning: News of houses rushing to join a religious parable is comparatively recent as housing would never be built on land that was only fit for agriculture (water-meadows) in times past.

Since WW2 the pace and the decency in housebuilding have become inverse squared laws of one another. If money can get a 20% percent profit on investment over three years, encroachment goes to flood plains anywhere that people will buy houses.

Since WW2 enough people are so many generations removed from knowledge of the effect and affects of the weather that they have very little understanding of what flash floods can do even in Britain, even in comparatively dry seasons.