Rainwater

The past two days have been a bit wet - over 3 inches in about 36 hours. After the rain stopped yesterday we were out in force with cameras. There had been a lot of rain, and the becks were running fast and overflowing and finding there own way across the fields, but we've seen it a lot worse. In February 2004 we had worse flooding. This was Before The Weather Station, so we've no figures, just photographs taken in similar places to use as comparison

 

2004

2013

 

2004

 

 2013

 

 In February all of the stock (apart from sheep which we still had) were inside and warm and dry. This year we moved a few calves whose grazing was getting smaller and smaller, and some could see the rising water and moved onto drier ground themselves (though it was not very deep).

 

 

Smaller creatures also knew when to climb above the water.





© James Robinson 2013

 

© James Robinson 2013



 

And finally, from the safety of our car I took a short video with my phone. Hardly the world's best film, but it shows the speed the water was flowing.