Splish, spash....

Across the river is Llechryd - this was taken from the Cilgerran road looking across Llechryd bridge. There are few bridges over the Teifi along this length - a couple at Cardigan and one each at Llechryd, Cenarth, Newcastle Emlyn and Henllan are the only ones I know of, so a bridge closure is quite disruptive.

The minor road to Abercych joins this road just before the bridge, and is clearly completely under water. You can still see the bridge parapets, but the road across the bridge was under about a foot of water when I took this. In February 2002 you couldn't even see the bridge parapets, so things can get worse yet.

In the summer I had a close look at how far the river had to rise to get to these sorts of levels. To clear the parapets I estimate about 15ft above normal, so in the photo above the river is about 13 ft higher than summer levels. It had risen 5 ft in 24 hours. I was told that many of the properties that can be seen across the river were preparing sandbags.

4 Feb 2004