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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: YZ250 on 08 February 2014, 09:45:15
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Many years ago, my wife and I were returning from a night out in my dads brand spanking new car. It was a pitch black night and we were travelling along a back road near my parents house and as I drove under the railway bridge, all of a sudden, lights flashed everywhere and it felt like we'd hit a brick wall. This road was not normally any different to any other road after heavy rain so we sat there wondering what the hell had happened........... until the car started to sink, at which point we had to get out and swim for it.
Now the difficult part, explaining to my dad, at four o'clock in the morning, that I had just drowned, and I really do mean drowned, his brand new car. He asked if we were both ok and said "oh well, it couldn't be helped" and was very calm about it......... to my face anyway. ;D
Well, with all this rain the dip under the bridge has flooded again and a Transit van has come to the same fate as me. As you can see, it gets rather deep. ;D I shouldn't have the smilies as it wasn't funny at the time. :-[ :'( :'(
This is what I hit, approaching from the far end of the dip. :'( :'(
(http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac142/Alan-Hearn/d6f18270-d1df-4ebe-b33b-cf00139a7417_zps63f09251.jpg) (http://s894.photobucket.com/user/Alan-Hearn/media/d6f18270-d1df-4ebe-b33b-cf00139a7417_zps63f09251.jpg.html)
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There's a road I Southwater that floods like that... fortunately, being residential it is lit. Driving along it in normal circumstances you wouldn't think it could get that deep, but it will swallow a car :o It doesn't flood very often, and inspite of all the rain lately, it hasn't flooded for a while...
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552943/Gone-sixty-seconds-How-60-000-Audi-abandoned-floods-picked-apart-thieves-leaving-just-shell-waters-subsided.html
:-X
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Hope fully the Transit does not get stripped like the Audi RS5 that was in the papers last week after being abandoned after the New year floods
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Too slow
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552943/Gone-sixty-seconds-How-60-000-Audi-abandoned-floods-picked-apart-thieves-leaving-just-shell-waters-subsided.html
:-X
That Audi rusted away at super quick speed, I thought they were galvanised, ;D ;D
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Not much protection against carbide cutting blades :)
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Is that between Chersley and Long Crendon (ages since I've been there)?
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Is that between Chersley and Long Crendon (ages since I've been there)?
Kingsey Bridge between Haddenham and Kingsey. :y
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2552943/Gone-sixty-seconds-How-60-000-Audi-abandoned-floods-picked-apart-thieves-leaving-just-shell-waters-subsided.html
:-X
Not long before they appear on the bay at "a bargain price"!
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Many years ago, my wife and I were returning from a night out in my dads brand spanking new car. It was a pitch black night and we were travelling along a back road near my parents house and as I drove under the railway bridge, all of a sudden, lights flashed everywhere and it felt like we'd hit a brick wall. This road was not normally any different to any other road after heavy rain so we sat there wondering what the hell had happened........... until the car started to sink, at which point we had to get out and swim for it.
Now the difficult part, explaining to my dad, at four o'clock in the morning, that I had just drowned, and I really do mean drowned, his brand new car. He asked if we were both ok and said "oh well, it couldn't be helped" and was very calm about it......... to my face anyway. ;D
Well, with all this rain the dip under the bridge has flooded again and a Transit van has come to the same fate as me. As you can see, it gets rather deep. ;D I shouldn't have the smilies as it wasn't funny at the time. :-[ :'( :'(
This is what I hit, approaching from the far end of the dip. :'( :'(
(http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac142/Alan-Hearn/d6f18270-d1df-4ebe-b33b-cf00139a7417_zps63f09251.jpg) (http://s894.photobucket.com/user/Alan-Hearn/media/d6f18270-d1df-4ebe-b33b-cf00139a7417_zps63f09251.jpg.html)
That looks very familiar. Where is it?
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That looks very familiar. Where is it?
Uh, reply #7 Chris ::) ::) ;D
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Is that between Chersley and Long Crendon (ages since I've been there)?
Kingsey Bridge between Haddenham and Kingsey. :y
I thought I recognised it, my stamping ground in my youth - don't ask. :-X :-X :-X
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Is that between Chersley and Long Crendon (ages since I've been there)?
Kingsey Bridge between Haddenham and Kingsey. :y
Ah yes, I can see it now :y
Same rail line as I thought, just about 3 miles away (by rail)
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Is that between Chersley and Long Crendon (ages since I've been there)?
Kingsey Bridge between Haddenham and Kingsey. :y
Ah yes, I can see it now :y
Same rail line as I thought, just about 3 miles away (by rail)
Quite right. :y You're well travelled in this area then, I assume from the Telecoms days?
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I thought I recognised it, my stamping ground in my youth - don't ask. :-X :-X :-X
I'm intrigued now. :)
Knowing what happened to us at this bridge years ago, my son sent me the photo of the bridge and asked how I would react if he'd drowned my new car. I'm still pondering over that one. ;D
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Was he asking hypothetically to gauge your reaction, prior to giving you the not so good news :-\
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Hope fully the Transit does not get stripped like the Audi RS5 that was in the papers last week after being abandoned after the New year floods
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Too slow
Funny you mentioned Audi, as the van now has an Audi Q7 to keep it company. ::) I'm not going to criticise as it may have been dark and I know what that's like. :'( :'(
(http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac142/Alan-Hearn/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps507547d9.jpg) (http://s894.photobucket.com/user/Alan-Hearn/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps507547d9.jpg.html)
The levels dropping slowly.
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Hope fully the Transit does not get stripped like the Audi RS5 that was in the papers last week after being abandoned after the New year floods
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Too slow
Funny you mentioned Audi, as the van now has an Audi Q7 to keep it company. ::) I'm not going to criticise as it may have been dark and I know what that's like. :'( :'(
(http://i894.photobucket.com/albums/ac142/Alan-Hearn/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps507547d9.jpg) (http://s894.photobucket.com/user/Alan-Hearn/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image_zps507547d9.jpg.html)
The levels dropping slowly.
Oop's!!!!!........
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Probably a good thing they didn't get any further, could have hit the van head on at speed :-\
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Probably a good thing they didn't get any further, could have hit the van head on at speed :-\
Judging by the angle it's on and the fact that it entered the water from the shallow end, I'm wondering if he/she thought " I'm doing ok here, yeh not too bad at all, I'm gunna make it..... Sh*t, who put that van there. ;D ;D
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Heres some flooding by us. Roundabout is open again now though.
http://youtu.be/XN_-H_lmYHw
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Quite right. :y You're well travelled in this area then, I assume from the Telecoms days?
Being an Aylesbury boy, even pre Smellycom days :y
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Probably a good thing they didn't get any further, could have hit the van head on at speed :-\
Judging by the angle it's on and the fact that it entered the water from the shallow end, I'm wondering if he/she thought " I'm doing ok here, yeh not too bad at all, I'm gunna make it..... Sh*t, who put that van there. ;D ;D
More likely "I've got a wannabe 4x4, thus I can go anywhere"
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I cant stop laughing at this:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/06/article-2552943-1B37904D00000578-528_634x427.jpg)
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I cant stop laughing at this:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/06/article-2552943-1B37904D00000578-528_634x427.jpg)
Must be a bloody quiet road,it took a while to get that shell to that point :-X
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Must be a bloody quiet road,it took a while to get that shell to that point :-X
Not really :o
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/audi-sports-car-stripped-parts-6673528
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Given the current predicament in Berkshire/Surrey, might it not be prudent to open the Thames Barrier and allow the locks and wiers up as far as
Reading Reading to free flow?
Just wondering like :-\
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How come people driving dont see such an obstacle?
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Large puddles are almost invisible on dark unlit roads. Even if there is street lighting, the depth isn't always obvious :-\
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Large puddles are almost invisible on dark unlit roads. Even if there is street lighting, the depth isn't always obvious :-\
I understand your point but I always thought: high beam+fog lights+full caution during poor weather conditions...
Anyhow, nice to meet you :y
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Large puddles are almost invisible on dark unlit roads. Even if there is street lighting, the depth isn't always obvious :-\
I understand your point but I always thought: high beam+fog lights+full caution during poor weather conditions...
Anyhow, nice to meet you :y
Likewise :y
High beam and foglights aren't always practical :-\ Can't account for crap design or human stupidity either ::)
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Given the current predicament in Berkshire/Surrey, might it not be prudent to open the Thames Barrier and allow the locks and wiers up as far as Reading Reading to free flow?
Just wondering like :-\
Because it wont make any difference?
The idea is it opens just as the sea side level drops below the river side when the tide has turned, around when the tide reaches its low point, its closed, this creates an effective 'empty reservoir' inland of the barrier for the river water to 'fill'. If it remains open then the tide fills it.
Simples.....and a very clever and impressive piece of civil engineering
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Fair dos :y
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I cant stop laughing at this:
(http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/02/06/article-2552943-1B37904D00000578-528_634x427.jpg)
Must be a bloody quiet road,it took a while to get that shell to that point :-X
ist just me but i think,the flooded audi was removed complete,and the remnants of one put in the water,.
look closely at what crap is in the floor pan...