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Letting You Know
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Spirit of Light
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Thank you for letting us know in advanceIt has been raining heavily here and we have just recieved an automated phone call that there may be flooding, as we live right near a river. If I'm not online (since you know I usually am) for an extended period, that may be why.
Hope everything will go well there and that your property and belongings do not get harmed by the water.
exchemist
Veteran Member
But wait...is that a periscope I see, towards the lower left?It has been raining heavily here and we have just recieved an automated phone call that there may be flooding, as we live right near a river. If I'm not online (since you know I usually am) for an extended period, that may be why.
Altfish
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It is raining here, it has been all night and all day so far.
But hey ho, it is Manchester, we are used to rain. It'll be fine - must admit, I'm not looking forward to walking the dog.
exchemist
Veteran Member
My maternal grandmother (nee Pownall), was from Manchester and used to describe heavy rain as coming down "like stair rods". Is that a Mancunian expresssion?
Yeah, East Yorkshire is no stranger to rain either. Let's just hope the river doesn't break the bank!
Altfish
Veteran Member
We certainly use that phrase, not sure if it is limited to Manchester area
My paternal grandmother was also a Pownall - she wasn't from Altrincham, was she?
exchemist
Veteran Member
That is interesting. She was Grace Pownall, also known as Polly. There was a brother or uncle called Arthur Pownall. Her parents had been wealthy (cotton mills I think - a classic) and had a big house called Mersey Bank, somewhere around there, but I thought it might have been Didsbury.
She was in danger of getting left on the shelf after WW1, since so many of the officer class had got killed, and married an impecunious civil engineer called Hawkins from East Anglia, after a courtship lasting only 6 weeks. She went out to India with him, where he worked on the railways, had five children with him and lived to 93.
Altfish
Veteran Member
I thought that's what the likes of the Ouse, Swale, Ure, Wharfe, etc did. The number of times the fields have been flooded when I've been heading up to Newcastle
Yeah they do. We're by the Ouse, but it has never (in my lifetime) flooded our village. It has flooded the village over.
Altfish
Veteran Member
No, my Great Grandma was Mary (a seamstress) and Grandma Dorothy - there was an Arthur but he got killed near Arras in the last week of WW1
Possibly related a couple of generations further back
exchemist
Veteran Member
Yes, there seem to be a lot of Pownalls in that part of the world.
Altfish
Veteran Member
Think it is around York that the Ouse really floods; is it The King's Arms which has the marks of flood levels on its walls. You are sat down having a pint and 3 foot above your head is a marker saying January 5th 1986 (or whatever) that being the height of the flood water.
Daemon Sophic
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stvdv
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Beautiful picture with the cute elephants. I love heavy rains.It has been raining heavily here and we have just recieved an automated phone call that there may be flooding, as we live right near a river. If I'm not online (since you know I usually am) for an extended period, that may be why.
Once in India, sitting in a train, suddenly I heard a big blow on top of the train. First time India, so I thought it was a big rock. It just happened to be a few cubic meter downpour of Indian Monsoon water on top of the train.
I don't remember internet to be interrupted though. So probably you will stay connected. Maybe it blows over to us in Holland even
Thief
Rogue Theologian
no.....that would be the Loch Ness monsterBut wait...is that a periscope I see, towards the lower left?