east dulwich flood

[CrystalClear]

anybody got any photos of the flood (few years ago), want to prove it happened!

[matthew123]

I remember wading through 2 or 3 feet of water outside the train station as it absolutely bucketted down without mercy. I'd be surprised if anyone had time to take a photo though as it was a job to keep on your feet!

[CrystalClear]

I know keef has some of cars drowning,thought they were on line, but buggered if I can find them. It wasn't the same year as the drought was it?

[snorky]

I Lived it. the horror ,the horror

( 1.5 feet of localised water was hardly of Biblical proportions )

[CrystalClear]

I know man. Then a drought, never went to church again, the fucker.

I can't write fucker?

[Jeremy]

I did have a photo, but can't find it now... one of my (very bored) friend mocked up a BBC news page telling of this humanitarian crisis. It's possibly still online somewhere.

[SteveT]

Anyone remember the year?

What roads did the flooding occur in?

[Keef]

I believe there were some photos on here (they weren't mine), and I think it must have been 2006, possibly 2005. It was just very very heavy rain, I remember the stupid 12 bus didn't stop at my stop on Barry Road (the Underhill stop), so I had to get off at Goodrich, and walking down Crystal Palace Road was surreal because the water really was flowing down the road.

Not biblical snorky, but I've not seen the like in London before.

In fact CrystalClear, I seem to remember the reason I got soaked through to the skin was that you werre off work "ill", and I was bringing you provisions (cigarettes and coca-cola)!

It wasn't the same year as the drought was it?

No that was 2003, I know this because I remember coming home from a party in Oxford to find no water, and everyone queuing on the streets with buckets.

[Keef]

Info here, suggests it was actually 2004, assuming it was the same flood we're thinking of.

This video suggests 2003, but I'm sure it was later than that.

[Cassius]

I agree with 2004 - I was in a temp job and foolishly got my partner to pick me up from Denmark Hill station - it took us hours to drive back to LL - it would have been better for me to walk and get soaked - mmmm nothing like hindsight!

[Ant]

If it's the occasion I'm thinking of then it's definitely 2004, because I wasn't here to witness it in 2003. Loads of rain and a fair old bit of hail as well, as I remember. Does that sound familiar?

[TillieTrotter]

It definitely happened. I remember watching with horror as it went over my doorstep and was an inch or two away from actually coming into the house!

[SeanMacGabhann]

Having moved from the top of Friern Rd, I did wonder how prone to flooding the lowlands were - now you have frightened me TT!

[TillieTrotter]

It made me renew my contents insurance rather lively Mac!

[Keef]

a fair old bit of hail as well, as I remember

That'll be the one.

[Ant]

Have a pic somewhere that'd give me the exact date. Wonder whether it's on me flickr...

[Jah Lush]

It was definitely April 2004. In the picture that Keef provided of Half Moon Lane in Herne Hill my friends bar (Bolands now SE22) which was next door to the Lloyds Bank in the picture was severely flooded and their basement had to be drained of the water but it recovered in time for my sister's wedding reception at the end of the month. A friend took some photos at the time of waste bins floating down the road.

[????]

I was in The Funky Monkey in Camberwell watching the deluge...it then started flooding their toilets downstairs which probably left them cleaner than they'd been for ages