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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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Sunday 22 July 2007 23:04
: Robert Samuels (robert.samuels@ntlworld.com) said:
Cycle path flooded Sunday afternoon (22nd July) -- whole path as far as the bend covered between 3.00 and 4.00 pm. About 10" or so deep at the cattle grid this evening (8.00 pm) -- still passable by bike and wellies but also still possibly rising.
\nIt's not as bad as Easter 1998 ... yet.
Sunday 22 July 2007 22:07
: Nigel Berry () said:
I looked at it from the Marston end at 20.30 - I did not have wellies, and I did not try to cross, but it looked deeper than I would risk on foot. It was properly flooded up to the elbow in the path.
Sunday 22 July 2007 19:49
: Gordon Snow () said:
Water still rising, but more slowly, at 19:00. Peak level variously forecast as 8 and midnight tonight. Track up to a foot deep. Negotiable in wellies, but you may not make it back on your return journey.
Sunday 22 July 2007 18:17
: Geraint Jones () said:
Still just passable for the brave or foolhardy. Flooded to within a few yards of the elbow where it joins the footpath from meopotamia.
Sunday 22 July 2007 15:41
: Nigel Berry () said:
3.30 pm Sunday - path now under about 1.5" - 2" of water at the deepest in the middle of the track, and rising.
Sunday 22 July 2007 14:36
: Bill C () said:
water coming over sides of path. 56.3 on measuring stick by bridges - rollers completely submerged
Sunday 8 July 2007 20:32
: Ganesh Sittampalam (ganesh@earth.li) said:
The email updates were broken for a while. This message should serve both as my final test that I've fixed them, and to let you know they're fixed. You'll also notice they now come from a more sensible "From" address than before. Thanks to Geraint Jones for pointing out they were broken.
Friday 6 July 2007 10:14
: Geraint Jones () said:
Mesopotamia-end cattle grid flooded, about a metre's width of crown of the path still clear.
Friday 6 July 2007 09:20
: Tony Brett (tony.brett@oucs.ox.ac.uk) said:
Starting to flood at the edges today, about 0850. Is this a first in July?
Friday 6 July 2007 09:14
: Nigel Berry () said:
Shallow water now on both sides of the path, but the middle still clear at c.8.15 am.
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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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