No fords locally but the Nene, albeit much improved by work over the last 30years, is prone to bursting its banks at various points. On the other hand acres of warehousing has popped up close to the floodplain in the same period.
Clay soil means that field runoff can easily flood other roads away from the river.
The first year we were here we had bad autumn floods. No access via the normal route into the village, secondary way passable with care where a brook was over the road. I stopped, watched and raised the BX's ride height to max. Bloke behind was impatient, hooted and then shot through at speed but made it. BX waded it just fine at walking pace but there was a van on the verge with its engine sounding like a bag of spanners.
I think the guy hoped it would 'dry out' and improve.
Floods and fords need care.
I'm sure I've posted before about Judge Jonathan Gammon but it bears repetition:
www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/oct/23/judge-drowned-drove-flooded-ford
He moved to the judiciary via an unusual route having previously been a departmental statistician. I didn't know him personally but a number of my colleagues did. We were hosting a mental health practitioners group in the office at the time the news broke; a lot of very upset people.
Last edited by: Bromptonaut on Sun 21 Feb 21 at 11:22
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