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Post by bargemast on Jan 24, 2018 11:05:00 GMT
I haven't had much time during the last few days to participate actively with the forum. At the moment I have to fight an almost permanent battle night and day to get rid off all the debris that get's blocked between my boat and the bank. The water has been, and still is rising rapidly, the police has been several times to say that I have to remove my vehicles from where they are, as the water is expected to come over the road later today, or tomorrow. The river Yonne is normally quite a peaceful river, that is one of the feeders of the Seine, but in reality the Seine should have been called the Yonne, as the Yonne is giving a lot more water than the Seine. parisinaction.com/seine/At the moment there's a huge tree, I guess about 25m (almost 82') stuck underneath my pontoons, and it's impossible due to the enormous force of the riverflow to get rid off it. There's a part sticking out in front of my boat with several heavy side-branches under water, and one or two branches underneath my boat, and the rest is under water blocked underneath the pontoon with my footbridge and the two pontoons that support the poles that are supposed to keep me at a safe distance from the bank.    The first photo was of yesterday afternoon, and the two others of this morning. In case you didn't know yet, I'm not having fun at all, I've been mostly in and around this part of France and on this river, and have never seen the levels as high since 1979. The worst water levels were in 1910, same as in Paris, which is understandable knowing that the Yonne is supplying most of the water of the Seine. I hope that your conditions are better overthere. Peter. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 11:55:43 GMT
Take care out there. Looks nasty I hope it doesn't get too much worse.
I'm on the cut in London which despite being only just above high tide iseffectively protected by the Thames barrier.
Been quite bad further up the Thames I believe but not as bad as where you are.
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Post by peterboat on Jan 24, 2018 11:59:38 GMT
The Don has been in flood for a couple of weeks now, our bit is a navigation so it ok for the moment
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Post by JohnV on Jan 24, 2018 12:34:16 GMT
That looks pretty grim Peter ........ take care !!!
(The river Hull where I am at the moment is tidal and I am tied up to a very high dock wall, for flood water coming down the river to cause much of a problem, it would have to be biblical.)
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Post by patty on Jan 24, 2018 14:14:41 GMT
That looks really scary..take care and don't do anything risky...
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Post by kris on Jan 24, 2018 14:26:54 GMT
Good to hear your alright though Peter despite the conditions. Take care and stay safe.
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Post by bargemast on Jan 24, 2018 14:41:32 GMT
That looks pretty grim Peter ........ take care !!! (The river Hull where I am at the moment is tidal and I am tied up to a very high dock wall, for flood water coming down the river to cause much of a problem, it would have to be biblical.) Well John, if I wouldn't know this river so well, I could easily have thought that I'm on a tidal river here, and that it's a biblical flood. The level has cone up another foot again, and still rising, I've move my vehicles to a safer place, but even there the neighbours have had warnings about the river possibly coming up over the road, and maybe even higher than their doorstep, so I'm not alone not being happy.  Couldn't get the picture the right way up, but you can still see the difference between 1 hour ago when I took it, and this mornings photo. Peter. |
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Post by bargemast on Jan 24, 2018 14:43:45 GMT
That looks really scary..take care and don't do anything risky... The riskyest thing I have to do is going ashore, and later to get back on board, and I'm very careful, or at least I'm trying to be very careful  Peter. |
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Post by bargemast on Jan 24, 2018 14:48:10 GMT
Good to hear your alright though Peter despite the conditions. Take care and stay safe. If it doesn't get too much worse, I think that I can manage (more or less). I had to make some DIY waders, by extending the height of my wellies with trashbags, taped to them with gaffers-tape, they're not completely waterproof, but they don't fill in one go, which is an improvement to just the wellies. Peter. |
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Post by kris on Jan 24, 2018 14:53:35 GMT
Good to hear your alright though Peter despite the conditions. Take care and stay safe. If it doesn't get too much worse, I think that I can manage (more or less). I had to make some DIY waders, by extending the height of my wellies with trashbags, taped to them with gaffers-tape, they're not completely waterproof, but they don't fill in one go, which is an improvement to just the wellies. Peter. sounds like it's been a hectic few days. It looks like the river here has just started to fall. I'm okay because I'm on a canal section, but Tony's on the river. He could probably do with a pair of waders. As you can imagine ive just got a letter from cart telling me I've overstayed, so I'm trying to ring them to see if they know the river is in flood. |
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Post by phil70 on Jan 24, 2018 14:55:34 GMT
I know what you are up against, had flood issues on the odd occasion when we were on the Broads but that was mainly getting the dogs off the boat. Never had to cope with trees floating past,Just high levels and flow.
Stay safe and don't take risks
Phil
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2018 15:40:40 GMT
That looks really scary..take care and don't do anything risky... The riskyest thing I have to do is going ashore, and later to get back on board, and I'm very careful, or at least I'm trying to be very careful Peter. This where being tee-total comes in very handy. Firstly you won't run out of beer and need to make an emergency dash to the shop and secondly walking where your feet are invisible is probably easier sober !! |
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Post by bargemast on Jan 24, 2018 17:47:28 GMT
If it doesn't get too much worse, I think that I can manage (more or less). I had to make some DIY waders, by extending the height of my wellies with trashbags, taped to them with gaffers-tape, they're not completely waterproof, but they don't fill in one go, which is an improvement to just the wellies. Peter. sounds like it's been a hectic few days. It looks like the river here has just started to fall. I'm okay because I'm on a canal section, but Tony's on the river. He could probably do with a pair of waders. As you can imagine ive just got a letter from cart telling me I've overstayed, so I'm trying to ring them to see if they know the river is in flood. Here's a bad photo of me seen in a shop window with my DIY waders. They don't look very professional, but they did the job.  Peter. |
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Post by bargemast on Jan 24, 2018 18:23:03 GMT
The riskyest thing I have to do is going ashore, and later to get back on board, and I'm very careful, or at least I'm trying to be very careful Peter. This where being tee-total comes in very handy. Firstly you won't run out of beer and need to make an emergency dash to the shop and secondly walking where your feet are invisible is probably easier sober !! I don't know about the coming in handy, as I don't know anything else, but I sometimes do run out of the Bio-vegetable juice that I like so much, and out of soj-milk, and believe it or not, even tee-totals have to eat, so I still have to go to the shops. When I came back from a short shopping expedition on foot, I found several people from the town-service working on a dry route from my gangway to the shore, which was rather nice, and to be honest quite useful and neccesary too, but they didn't think and fixed the plank right in front of the gate that opens towards the bank, and that couldn't pass their planks. I waited until they left with rearranging the planks a bit, so now the gate opens just enough to let me slip through, and I can get ashore without the need for my DIY waders at the moment. Hope the water isn't coming up too much more overnight, although I'm quite worried, as when I was out shopping their were teams of the town-workers making footbridges in front of the houses in the neighbourhood. We'll see what tomorrow will bring.  Peter. |
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Post by thebfg on Jan 24, 2018 18:26:12 GMT
I've been following the news and am thinking of you. Stay safe.
I see Paris is in all sorts of trouble with flooding.
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