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Title: High Water at the lake
Post by: dougal99 on October 22, 2023, 05:33:32 pm

The lake normally has 360 access on a very nice path. The tide was in today,

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: Andyn on October 22, 2023, 07:55:51 pm

This was the lake at Wicksteed this evening. It’s a good foot higher than it usually is, the bottom of the club shed is now underwater and the path is completely submerged




(https://www.modelboatmayhemimages.co.uk/images/2023/10/22/IMG_3088.jpg)

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: Geoff on October 23, 2023, 06:25:58 pm

We could do with some of your water in Grays. Our lake is about 2.5 feet lower than its usual level! Can you mail us some!  :-)


Geoff

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: tonyH on October 23, 2023, 06:54:23 pm

If I'd have known earlier you could have had some from us in Suffolk, either from the car park next to our lake (In the background - Framlingham Castle Mere) or out of my workshop! {-)

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: Circlip on October 23, 2023, 09:02:43 pm

Saves lifting the boat out of the boot to launch.


  Regards  Ian.

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: Colin Bishop on October 24, 2023, 01:13:33 pm

Is that the Elms car park Tony?
Colin

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: tonyH on October 24, 2023, 01:42:14 pm

Yup! If you know Fram then Colin, the whole centre was flooded apart from the Co-op! There were several cows marooned in the mere, which has common grazing rights, and had to be rescued by the Fire Brigade. Luckily, being a farming area, patients for the doctors surgery were ferried by teams of tractors, as were school kids and staff etc. The ground is mainly clay so slow ab(d)sorbtion and with so much new-build there was a lot of run-off.Fun for all!

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: Martin (Admin) on October 24, 2023, 01:47:35 pm

 
(https://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=17267.0;attach=227849;image)

Peterborough .... 

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: Colin Bishop on October 24, 2023, 02:57:26 pm

Tony,

My Daughter worked in Framlingham for a while some time back and we visited several times. She rented a house in New Road a few hundred yards from the car park.

Colin

Title: Re: High Water at the lake
Post by: tonyH on October 24, 2023, 04:34:57 pm

Colin, We moved up here about 22 years ago and my first office, before I fully retired, was in New Road!  If she left within the last 6 or 7 years we almost certainly met, assuming she visited the hardware shop (Bridges and Garrards) in The Square.It's not a bad place to live!Tony

Title: Re: Today at the lake
Post by: dougal99 on October 25, 2023, 04:27:22 pm

Just like summer only deeper water