Fingers
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Some pics of 2004 here http://homepage.ntlworld.com/ostbren/Oliver/Flooding/index.html
Brixton news, rumours and general chat - Aug 2013
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Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
According to the greengrocer, a leak was reported at around 9pm last night but Thames Water didn't do anything.
I remember the 2004 floods - I was in the garden with Mrs M cutting down a tree and suddenly the heavens opened. We rushed inside, put the fire on and opened a bottle of wine
oops. Within about an hour, the flooding had started. We were fine, luckily, but a few of the houses at the other end of our road were affected, as well as my mate's place on Milton Rd.
According to the greengrocer, a leak was reported at around 9pm last night but Thames Water didn't do anything.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
According to the greengrocer, a leak was reported at around 9pm last night but Thames Water didn't do anything.
I remember the 2004 floods - I was in the garden with Mrs M cutting down a tree and suddenly the heavens opened. We rushed inside, put the fire on and opened a bottle of wine
Was that the day there was also a massive shower of hailstornes?
I remember coming home a 159 routemaster and the sound of the hailstones was deafening
gaijingirl
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i remember that well too - the houses on Brixton Water Lane were really screwed....
Ms Ordinary
randompointlesschemistry
Yes, IIRC it wasn't anywhere near as deep as this one (just a foot or so) but it did for all the basement flats as it swept down Railton Road & onto Water Lane.
buscador
culturally dominant
The trouble then was that the sewers weren't able to cope and it was backing up through the toilets of all those newly renovated basements on Railton Road.
T & P
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Sorry I meant to say that I did not get to reach Herne Hill myself on that day, as the flood had reached as far out as the Prince Regent (which is where I was coming from). I'm sure the flood was all over the Herne Hill area as it is now.
RubyToogood
RubyTwobikes
Herne Hill was looking peaceful but sandy earlier this afternoon. The butcher had managed to get straight and open up so I popped in for a couple of their nice scotch eggs. He told me that the landlord of the Half Moon had been arrested for watering down his beer. How we laffed.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Burst pipes aren't unusual in Brixton. Brixton Hill's lost loads through burst pipes (always in the same place)
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
When I lived in Leeds, I remember Yorkshire Water getting flak for losing nearly half of the water that went through their pipes, but they batted this off by saying it wasn't unusual.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I think the point is that cutting down the amount of water people spray on their gardens is a slightly less onerous undertaking than fixing miles upon miles of ancient pipework buried underneath busy roads.
snowy_again
Slush
And my second floor flat on Dulwich Road at the time. Flat roof + too much water = collapsed flat roof, with my record collection underneath. I didn't laugh.
gaijingirl
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are all the shops still closed (and going to remain so?) do you know? Was hoping to hit the toy shop today. i imagine they'll be out for ages given what I saw down there yesterday - but you never know.
snowy_again
Slush
But that's a little 'up' from the bottom of the valley.
I had a trip to magicians that I was planning for my niece and nephew (and really my dad). I guess that's not going to happen for a while.
I had a trip to magicians that I was planning for my niece and nephew (and really my dad). I guess that's not going to happen for a while.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Got burgled at some time between 3 and 8am this morning due to not putting on extra deadbolts. 
. I have been really lucky - no major losses, no defecating on my stuff, weirdly they didn't take any of my cards or keys although they'd been through EVERYTHING on ground floor and scattered it about, just the laptop (which luckily didn't have anything irreplaceable on it) ... and then they left, leaving the front door to the street open. It's the last bit that freaks me out because I was upstairs asleep & alone thru the whole thing. FUCK.
So lock up your doors & windows at night good brixtonites. It doesn't matter how late you've stayed up or what nefarious things you've been doing
- burglars might still have a go.
. I have been really lucky - no major losses, no defecating on my stuff, weirdly they didn't take any of my cards or keys although they'd been through EVERYTHING on ground floor and scattered it about, just the laptop (which luckily didn't have anything irreplaceable on it) ... and then they left, leaving the front door to the street open. It's the last bit that freaks me out because I was upstairs asleep & alone thru the whole thing. FUCK.So lock up your doors & windows at night good brixtonites. It doesn't matter how late you've stayed up or what nefarious things you've been doing
- burglars might still have a go.
editor
hiraethified
Got burgled at some time between 3 and 8am this morning due to not putting on extra deadbolts.
So lock up your doors & windows at night good brixtonites. It doesn't matter how late you've stayed up or what nefarious things you've been doing
Could you give me some idea as to where you live so I can post up on BBuzz to warn others?
Really sorry to hear about this. It must really suck.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Ferndale ward - within 300m of Acre Lane and Brixton Road.
Thanks for concern, ed - it's basically my own fault, the loss is small (maybe even nothing if the insurance cough up) and no harm came to anybody. could have been so so so much worse on every level from sheer hassle (f they'd taken cards/keys) to violence. Like everyone always says - it's the psychological impact which is the strongest. I'll be a lot more careful from now on.
Thanks for concern, ed - it's basically my own fault, the loss is small (maybe even nothing if the insurance cough up) and no harm came to anybody. could have been so so so much worse on every level from sheer hassle (f they'd taken cards/keys) to violence. Like everyone always says - it's the psychological impact which is the strongest. I'll be a lot more careful from now on.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
Hope you're ok trabuquera. I'm not quite clear how they got in. I realise you didn't deadbolt lock, but was a Yale lock on at least or did they use a card or something to slide that open?
Manter
Lunch Mob
hope you're OK trabuquera. Scary 
colacubes
Mr Hot Cookie
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hiraethified
The sponsors of a pop up restaurant!
Wouldn't it be whizzo if the entire Villaaage flattened down at the end of the night and then literally popped up in the morning!
An entire pop up village! Beat that, Clapham!
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