Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Millie · Post: # 65981Post **Millie** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:13 pm

Went out to find my veg swimming about in waterlogged containers

Bonniegirl · Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:48 pm

Bugger!

Wombat · Post: # 65984Post **Wombat** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 11:57 pm

Eww! How did that happen?

Nev

Bonniegirl · Sun Jul 22, 2007 3:22 am

Cos it ain't stopped piddling down over there!

And I think they're all beginning to develop webbed feet and fingers and gills!

pskipper · Post: # 65992Post **pskipper** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 8:45 am

Oh no, lots of sympathy and say if theres anything I can do to help!

contadino · Post: # 66004Post **contadino** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 9:51 am

Bonniegirl wrote:And I think they're all beginning to develop webbed feet and fingers and gills!

Tsk! And we all said that GM crops were a bad thing!?! Root veg that can swim in the event of flooding sounds like a great scientific achievement.

Millie · Post: # 66006Post **Millie** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:05 am

Wombat wrote:Eww! How did that happen?

Nev

It did rain a bit Nev

The sun is now shining, please let it be nice and dry everything out a bit.....

pskipper · Post: # 66011Post **pskipper** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:52 am

Tsk! And we all said that GM crops were a bad thing!?! Root veg that can swim in the event of flooding sounds like a great scientific achievement. Laughing

Personally I never watch GMTV

Wombat · Post: # 66012Post **Wombat** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 10:53 am

Millie wrote:
Wombat wrote:Eww! How did that happen?

Nev
It did rain a bit Nev

The sun is now shining, please let it be nice and dry everything out a bit.....

Millie · Post: # 66014Post **Millie** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:00 am

I had to travel a few towns away to get some beach shoes for the kids, and it was amazing! All the fields next to the roads were under water, and whilst there it starting pouring with rain again, I had visions of getting stranded somewhere

Bet you have our sun Nev!!

Muddypause · Sun Jul 22, 2007 12:46 pm

Here's something I've been wondering about re. the flooding. Given that so much land is now under water, and has been for a few days, does this mean that all the ground-living creatures wil be wiped out from large areas? Not just rabbits, mice, voles, etc., but earwigs, millipedes, worms... all the things that make the ground ecology work.

Does this mean that there will be large areas with a broken ecology until they can be reassimilated by these things?

ina · Post: # 66043Post **ina** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:13 pm

I think a lot of them can go underground (literally) for a while and stay safe that way; some will have "run away" and moved to drier spots, but a lot will have drowned, too.

Millie · Post: # 66057Post **Millie** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:24 pm

Wildlife seems to be pretty on the ball and probably worked out ages ago that it was going to be bad, and made nests on higher ground. Us humans have lost the instincts and just stand around going "oh...ah....uhm..." and await rescue and answers from others.

flower · Post: # 66063Post **flower** » Sun Jul 22, 2007 7:38 pm

although I have to say I've not seen a single live bumblebee for several weeks and I know several people who have been finding dead bats (my mum has found three so far this week in her garden)
I have no idea why

Thomzo · Post: # 66112Post **Thomzo** » Mon Jul 23, 2007 11:51 am

The bumble bees have obviously moved to higher ground as you can't move around my lavender for them (I live on top of a hill). I love watching them buzzing around they are cute.

Zoe