Lester Caine

I am supposed to be back at 'Art in Action' today, but given the fact that it
took nearly *7* hours to get from Oxford to Broadway last night and I can't
establish if ANY of the East/West roads in the area are now passable to get in
this morning. So if anyone IS heading that way can they please give the
Clockmakers my apologies, and hopefully I can sort something out for tomorrow.

What pigged a number of us off last night was the complete absence of ANY
official passing on information. The few locals who were telling us that a
road was blocked were unable to say if other routes were open, and basically
there were NO roads open East/West for a large section of Oxfordshire
/Warwickshire/Worcestershire/Glocestershire. Since there are so FEW routes
across country, half a dozen road blocks would have removed the need to drive
10 miles up a road ( such as the A3400 ) only to find a tractor up to it's
lights in water. These road blocks SHOULD have been directing people to drop
in points where we COULD establish if we could get home.

My eventual route took me back out to Banbury ( although it was also flooded )
across to Stratford, down the Fosse Way and in over the top. But I only
managed to get home because Firemen had pumped out Chipping Campden by midnight.

I keep seeing news reports about all these emergency shelters being open, but
where the f**k were they and where were ANY information sources? I only herd
on the radio traffic news that Morton was impassable around 11.00 AFTER I had
made it to within 1 mile of the other side. Reports of problems on the M4 are
a little useless when one is 30 miles north and could probably not even reach
it as at least I did know there was no point going A34, M4 and M5

Now I've got to try and get over to the Workshop 3 miles away and see what the
damage is there. James could not even get that far yesterday so nothing could
get lifted off the floor

In the meantime - anybody got any ideas as to why one of the ring mains in the
house will be tripping the main supply. I've unhooked it to get power back but
I probably need to lift the carpet and floor to see if the space under the
house is flooded, but I'm sure only wires go through that area. I don't think
there are any junction boxes below the floor. Sheila managed to keep it out of
the garage yesterday, but I suspect water may have got in the air bricks

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Lester Caine - G8HFL
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