This is in slight contrast to the glorious bank holiday weekend at the end of May! The photo I took on the previous post is a bit inadequate, really. I went down the following day and couldn't get anywhere near that bench. I took this one from as near as I was prepared to go, and you can just make out the bridge poking through. The River Lea is not exactly well known for flooding and nobody I spoke to could remember it up this high.
I went a bit further up river towards Wheathampstead. This one gives a bit of an idea of how wide the river had got. There should be a path underneath this lot
This is the river actually going over the road in Wheathampstead, something I've never seen it do. Most of the buildings to the left were flooded out unfortunately. There were two fire brigade pumps round the corner doing their best to keep it at bay
The morning after the day before. Things were a bit back to normal with all sorts wrapped around the bench and pillars.
The water a bit further upstream was sufficiently strong enough to uproot trees
Bec of course thought I was mad going off to take photos of all this (choosing to stay inside where it was warm and decidedly not raining) but the frustrated physical geographer in me found it irresistable!
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