After the snow, came the flooding. We, in the Huntingdon and Godmanchester area, fared better than many in the snow. But we’re more or less surrounded by rivers, so once the snow started thawing, and some heavy rainfall came, the water levels began to rise rapidly. We are lucky, though, in that there is plenty of space for the water to go without causing too much harm.
Here are a few pictures taken on the Recreation Ground in Godmanchester.
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Andrew Gosden (now 19) has been missing from his Doncaster home since 14 September 2007. The search continues.
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When I first saw the pictures I thought “Oh look at those gorgeous rivers Paul took pictures of!” Then I read your blurb and realized “Uh oh, those aren’t rivers.”
Hope all is well.
Yes, all is well, thanks Kay.
Most of that flood-water will dissipate very quickly as long as we don’t get too much rain. It’s been reasonably dry in the few days since I took the pictures, so it’s probably gone down quite a lot already.
If you look at the middle photograph: just the other side of that line of trees across the back of the picture is the biggest water meadow in England — Portholme. It has a perimeter of something like six miles, and makes an excellent flood-plain. The Recreation Ground, where the photographs were taken, and Portholme take a huge amount of flood-water between them. It’s usually only in the very exceptional floods that cause problems for the towns of Huntingdon and Godmanchester. There are towns and villages locally that have problems much quicker than we will. In that respect, we are very lucky.