Ribble rising fast.

[seth49]

Just had a amber warning for heavy rain till 9am tomorrow, looks like the ribble will be very big tomorrow, it’s already rising fast.

 

[seth49]

It reached 4 metres around 2 am,it was dropping a bit but it’s rising again now.

 

[jon atkinson]

Which station was that taken at?

 

[seth49]

Low moor, the village where I live.

 

[mikench]

I hope you are on high ground Keith.

 

[seth49]

Oh aye,
the houses nr the river would be completely submerged before it got anywhere nr me, I’m at the top end of the village, and I’ve been here 50 years in April, and not flooded yet.

 

[jon atkinson]

We've just returned from Lytham - it looked well over the banks by the Tickled Trout

 

[seth49]

First photo at edisford bridge. Second of the footbridge below low moor, I have seen it higher.

 

[nottskev]

Low moor, the village where I live.

I'm not stalking you, Keith, don't worry, but I looked up your village. I used to live between Nelson and Barrowford for a few years in the 90's, and one of my earliest memories is paddling on a gravel beach in the Ribble at Dinckley around 1962 (Dinckley Dell, my auntie called it) with my toddler cousins from Oswaldtwistle near Accrington. I see it's not far from you. Maybe you've paddled there yourself?

 

[seth49]

I know dinckley Kev, it’s about 4 miles or so downriver from where I live, it’s the so called big ribble there, because it’s below the junctions of the river Hodder and Calder, which join the Ribble at hacking hall nr Whalley, I moved from Clitheroe to a small hamlet called Bashall Eaves,when I was 4 years old,so my paddling years where spent in the river Hodder the loveliest river in England to me.

the hodder was just 5 minutes walk from the farmhouse where we lived, and I played down there nearly every day, it was a lovely place in summer but cold in winter, when we had proper winters then, 1962 and 63 where exceptional though, in a house with just one fire.

I spent many happy hours there just walking, fishing and shooting with an air rifle, I couldn’t have lived in a better place, Happy days.

 

[@Clive]

My wife's late Mother lived about 300 feet above the level of the tiny River Dove. But she insisted on having sand bags at the ready 'Just in case'.

 

[nottskev]

I have a soft spot for hilly rural Lancashire Keith, and I often think of it when I'm contemplating the Nottinghamshire flatlands.