CrystalClear Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 anybody got any photos of the flood (few years ago), want to prove it happened! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthew123 Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 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! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalClear Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorky Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 I Lived it. the horror ,the horror( 1.5 feet of localised water was hardly of Biblical proportions ) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrystalClear Posted January 18, 2009 Author Share Posted January 18, 2009 I know man. Then a drought, never went to church again, the fucker.I can't write fucker? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159434 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159454 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveT Posted January 18, 2009 Share Posted January 18, 2009 Anyone remember the year?What roads did the flooding occur in? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159640 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159649 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassius Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159668 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TillieTrotter Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159701 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMacGabhann Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Having moved from the top of Friern Rd, I did wonder how prone to flooding the lowlands were - now you have frightened me TT! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TillieTrotter Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 It made me renew my contents insurance rather lively Mac! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keef Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 a fair old bit of hail as well, as I rememberThat'll be the one. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159712 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ant Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 Have a pic somewhere that'd give me the exact date. Wonder whether it's on me flickr... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jah Lush Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted January 19, 2009 Share Posted January 19, 2009 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/4955-east-dulwich-flood/#findComment-159723 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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