UK floods [10 images - H2]

Hi - Unfortunately the weather in the UK is pretty bad at the moment lots of rain and overcast so not great light for pictures. As some of you will know the weather has been so bad we have had flooding in some areas.
This is my local river on Saturday, note the handrails



2 days later you can just see the top of the handrails, the river came with inches of the top of flood wall as you can see, it rose almost another foot after this picture was taken



The local water supply was contaminated and 350,000 people have no running water. Military were brought in to sandbag a local power station so power was not not lost



and the fire service ran miles of pipe to pump the water out of the power station



nearby Tewkesbury was badly hit and thousands of people had their homes flooded



the news teams came



I was lucky, my home is ok and the power station was saved so most people have power now but there is still no running water so we have bowsers to get water from



and plenty of bottled water at the supermarkets



and the army are controlling water distribution



the floods can be seen from miles away. You can see how close they got to Gloucester, my home town



I know the pictures aren't the best but I hope you found them interesting.

Martin

Ahh, well done, I wondered when somebody would post some flood pics, we have been OK here (Plymouth area)...... I genuinely feel for these poor folk...what a nightmare (I usually dismiss most whinges as I always think of the millons in the world without food...but this is different)....More heavy rain tonight forecast too

Thanks for posting these....just hope we escape down here....try to stay cheerful
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Brighteyes
I can't help the flooding, but I can help the haze.

Before



After

Thanks for posting those I found them very interesting, they seem somehow more interesting than what we se on the TV - I live in Hedge End - just outside Southampton.

• so not too far away 50 miles? The H series does water so well !!

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Patrick

Great assortment. I've been waiting for some UK flood pics. One question: What is a bowser?

Cheers,
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Kelly Mcguire

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marion aka OTD one of those Duc Klub people.

kellymac60 said:

Great assortment. I've been waiting for some UK flood pics. One
question: What is a bowser?

Cheers,
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Kelly Mcguire

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Oh I see the blue water tank with the spigots.
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Kelly Mcguire

Good reporting. Floods are no fun. I wonder what the future of England will be, as the people and governments of the world continue to provide the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
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John Dunn
My show 'Serenity': http://fototime.com/inv/6A04BAB6F082B6C

Hey John...have a little word with the Chinese government, and ask them not to build any more power stations will you ?
I am sure they will listen to you

jrdu said:

Good reporting. Floods are no fun. I wonder what the future of
England will be, as the people and governments of the world continue
to provide the atmosphere with greenhouse gases.
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John Dunn
My show 'Serenity': http://fototime.com/inv/6A04BAB6F082B6C

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Sony A100 examples here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mangizmo/sets/72157600209437795/

My blog at... http://southwestwanderings.blogspot.com/

'Take nothing but photographs....leave nothing but footprints'

Vaughan....KodakP880/Sony Alpha100/Sony R1/Sony 717

Hi Kelly - it's just a giant water dispenser, they are filled from tankers several times a day, I have just returned from one with another 10 litres of water!
Martin

It was a shame about the haze but that has cleared it up quite nicely, how did you do that?
Martin

Ironic isn't it, the rain last night was not as bad as predicted so I am hoping things will start to get better for everyone now. The water pumping station is being tested this weekend so hopefully we will start getting some running water this week. I don't think it will be drinkable for a while yet though.
Martin

Thanks to everyone for your interest nt

The forecast is for good weather right through to Friday...then lets hope it continues....maybe thats the end of this miserable episode...lets hope so ehh
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Sony A100 examples here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mangizmo/sets/72157600209437795/

My blog at... http://southwestwanderings.blogspot.com/

'Take nothing but photographs....leave nothing but footprints'

Vaughan....KodakP880/Sony Alpha100/Sony R1/Sony 717

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Brighteyes

Martin;

To remove haze with PhotoShop, use the UnSharp Mask found under the Filter drop down menu. A good starting point is 40% for Amount & 50% for Radius. There is a preview window to see the effect (you can use this to see the effect of value changes when using this filter). I usually start with focus as the first step in landscapes (note that with the H9 this is of little use because of the firmware in the camera). Then the USM, followed by levels/ curves. The more pixels in the image out of the camera, the better this works (why I'm disappointed with the H9). I hope this helps you. Great images are Made, NOT taken!

Hi
Thanks for that, I have Elements 5.0 so I will have a go with this later.

Martin

Those are excellent pictures that show what really was happening from a person on the spot. We saw all this on the news but not as clear and not with such emotions. Thank you
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Nagy
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