Flood Alert.

Woke up this morning to heavy rain. The view out of the window was a little worrying to say the least.  The stream behind the house was full of mud and had risen right up over the bog garden.

The water level had risen above the culvert across the stream and the lake was very high. Unfortunately at this point the road across the end of the lake and more significantly the wall built along the road trap the water and the excess water is held until the water level is up to the ends of the wall. It has only got that high once at which point our stream was up over the lawn and halfway to the house. There is a big pipe taking water out of the lake but sometimes it isn't enough. Today wasn't so bad and a few hours later the level had dropped back down to normal. 

This morning I togged up in waterproofs and went out to check on my dams across the road. There was a lot of water seeping out from the field above the road and going down that side where there isn't much opportunity to divert it to the side so I built a dam higher up the road sending it across towards the field. As  precaution I put a board across the back door and shored it up with bags of sand.

It may only be a small stream but the power of the water this morning moved a big concrete building block about 15ft downstream. While all is back to normal  now it's raining once more and the forecast is for yellow alert rain early tomorrow morning and again on Monday morning.

Indoors I did some sorting and put several pairs of jodhpurs and my jockey cap into the give away pile. Then I went on line and entered the bar codes of several boxes of pc games that Peter had cleared out. Most were worth very little and will also go to the charity shop but I did find a few to sell.