Comments on: Cattle in the Mist http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/cattle-in-the-mist/ From the edge of Zone 1 to the middle of nowhere... Sun, 19 May 2013 12:06:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/cattle-in-the-mist/#comment-9780 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:17:42 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3102#comment-9780 Thanks!

We don’t take our car through *any* level of water in the ford, which is not much hardship as there’s a 1 in 5 hill on the other side of it. The postman lives halfway up it – fortunately he (and the post office van) is made of sterner stuff. The local consensus is that anything over about 8 inches is a bit dodgy

]]> By: Ragged Thread Cartographer http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/cattle-in-the-mist/#comment-9779 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:03:12 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3102#comment-9779 I’m a bit late here but just wanted to say your top photo brought back Scotland so vividly – could smell the air….. Reminded me of driving through Perthshire backwards & forwards Manchester-Inverness every month. PS what’s the highest ford level you don’t dare take your car through?

]]> By: disgruntled http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/cattle-in-the-mist/#comment-9772 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:43:43 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3102#comment-9772 I should be clear, these are quite small drains (and some of them are no more than pipes pushed through dykes). Not the kind that swallow whole families. And not proper drains either, which require men with expensive equipment (or, in our case, a young lad with a shovel who look like he’d lost a bet with his colleagues)

]]> By: Dom Davis http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/cattle-in-the-mist/#comment-9767 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:40:42 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3102#comment-9767 Many things can be solved with a suitably large and sharp stick. Sadly the floods I used to get in my old place were not one of them. Those needed to be sorted by The Drain Doctor and the bill forwarded to the council (whose fault it ultimately was). A few of those had the problem solved and they could count as a metaphorical stick :)

]]> By: commuterjohn http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/cattle-in-the-mist/#comment-9765 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 14:41:14 +0000 http://cityexile.wordpress.com/?p=3102#comment-9765 I have a couple of drains that do that and it is like a man beats nature thing when they start clearing huge amounts of flood water.
Poking things with sticks I could do much more frequently but not sure it would have much more effect than an ouch!

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