Flooding

 

Whilst we had a lot of rain these past couple of days (tail end of Hurricane Melissa I believe), and our River Wye is high and folk downstream on flood alert (Bredwardine and Hereford getting it), it was our old home, Carmarthenshire, which got hit really badly again.  These are photos I took in 2020 I think.  It was every bit as bad yesterday, if not worse.  Danny struggled to get home with Emma, in the dark.  Personally, I would have taken note of the Yellow Weather warning and cancelled bookings . . .

This was looking across the River Towy as you approach Carmarthen on the by-pass.  The line of the river is normally 15 feet wide at most, towards the trees on the far bank.  Carmarthen flooded again yesterday, as the river broke its banks at the bottom of Castle Hill . . .  

Above and below - as the river rises it spills across the lane at the bottom of the hill up to our old house, and can get pretty deep.  Below shows how deep it was in 2020.

Last night my friend's son had to drive through this flooded part to reach home, all the other roads to their smallholding being shut from flooding (as this should have been too).  It was after dark, and the only guidance he had of the line of the lane, was the lights in the bungalow.  He kept his revs up, but said that the water was coming up over his headlights and the car was beginning to float!  My goodness, he was lucky that it didn't cut out for then he would have been floating backwards into the river and the speed that would have been going in spate, he'd have been lucky to escape with his life.

I had a very bad night - I was still awake at 3.30 a.m. and I feel absolutely wiped out today.  I will have to force myself to do anything.  I'm glad that Tam and Rosie are arriving later for a few days.  I feel SO down in the dumps.  I cannot balance the wonderful holiday in NZ against my anxiety levels and  lowness of spirit at the moment.    Since Keith died, when I am anxious about something (as I was about the Jordan holiday) it just becomes overwhelming and I find it so hard to face the challenges ahead.  Once I get there I will be find, it's just I cannot find the positives at the moment.

But hey, it's stopped raining . . . got to get a positive into the day somehow!