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You may also find the current flag status of the river useful. This page tracks the level of the Isis at Friar's Wharf; Geraint Jones informs me that 15" to 20" above normal there seems to be a good match for a flooded path.
The Environment Agency has an automated level meter at the Southern end of Mesopotamia with two readings available: upstream and downstream. Once calibrated against the flooding of the path these should provide a useful warning mechanism.
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Monday 21 January 2008 17:40
: Tom () said:
At 12:15 I was able to cycle through dry without wellies, though this required sort of rocking the pedals back and forth from the 3 o-clock to 9 o-clock positions so as not to let my feet get too low.
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\nAnd of course this was before the thunderstorm this evening, so is no doubt entirely moot.
Monday 21 January 2008 08:50
: Alan Hughes () said:
8.30am: on a bike, the foot just goes into the water on a downstroke at the deepest part.
Monday 21 January 2008 07:41
: Geraint Jones () said:
At the Marston end there are now about 10-15 metres dry (or, at least, under stranded scum) on the town side of the elbow.
Sunday 20 January 2008 17:22
: Alan Hughes () said:
At 5pm the water had receded from the elbow and was about 5yd away from it in the Parks direction: cyclable in wellies if it doesn't rise again.
Saturday 19 January 2008 08:50
: Geraint Jones () said:
About 10yds under water on the Marston side of the elbow in the path, and there's a noticeable current across the path at the elbow.
Friday 18 January 2008 12:55
: Stephen (stephen.purbrick@admin.ox.ac.uk) said:
I made it through this morning on a bike but I was the only person going through at the time. Well above my forks and only a couple of inches from the top of my wellies. I won't go back that way tonight.
Friday 18 January 2008 09:11
: Yvonne (yvonne.couch@dpag.ox.ac.uk) said:
Tip for all short people, the water has come round the bend at the Marston end of the parks and this means that if you are around the 5'2" mark the water WILL come over the top of your wellies EVEN if you are on a bike. Don't risk it for a while.
Friday 18 January 2008 08:53
: Alan Hughes (alan.hughes@oup.com) said:
I gave up this morning. The flood has reached the bend and gone some 10yds along the path towards the barrier at the Marston end. Standing just beyond the cattle grid on the water meadows at the Marston end, the water came to within half an inch of the top of my wellies. At the Parks end it would be over them. The bottom of Ferry Rod has begun flooding.
Thursday 17 January 2008 15:39
: Casper () said:
Significant flooding between the pair of bridges and on the "town" side of them now.
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\nDeepest water round cattle grid up to my front wheel hub so about 350 mm or 14 inches deep. Still just about cyclable in wellies but starting to feel like hard work!
Thursday 17 January 2008 14:40
: Tony Brett (tony.brett@oucs.ox.ac.uk) said:
I've asked the IT person for the unit from which that last post was made to have a word with the person that made the last post.
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\nForgive me if you don't think I have a sense of humour but this isn't really appropriate use of University resources.
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\nTony, OUCS
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“ An A-road walks into a bar and asks for a pint. The barman serves him, but he looks really tough and the barman worries that there'll be trouble.
“ Then a dual carriage way walks in and buys a pint. The barman again notes that he looks tough and says, ‘Look, I don't want any trouble, so could you sit in that corner away from the A-road?’ So the dual carriage way does.
“ Soon afterwards, in walks a motorway and gets a pint, who looks extremely tough, so the barman makes him sit in another corner away from the other two roads.
“ A bit later, a really small road walks in and buys a diet coke. The A-road, dual carriage way and motorway all look at him aghast and run out of the pub. The barman grabs the motorway on the way past and asks, ‘Why are you running out? He's a really tiny road.’
“ The motorway replies, ‘He's no road, he's a cycle path!’ ”
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