Nearer to home...

This is taken from our bedroom in The Mill. It would normally be a picture of a grass lawn and orchard area, with a maize field beyond the trees. To get this high we think the river is about 9 ft above normal. It just pours over its banks into our main field (centre, middle distance through the trees) and floods that to a depth of 4 or 5 ft. It's a seven acre field and I reckon about 4 or 5 acres were under water when I last looked.

It needs to rise about another 2 - 3 ft to threaten property.

4 Feb 2004