All around Greater Manchester
And Cheshire Flooded
After The continuous Rain
All the Rivers mainly
The River Mersey and The Bollin in Cheshire
Have broken their Banks
And Caused a lot Of Disruption and Damage
Lots of Cars Submerged
Here in North Cheshire
The A555 Manchester Airport Relief Road
Is Badly flooded
People have been Rescued from their Waterlogged Cars
And In Stockport
People Trapped in Meadow Mill Apartments .
Where the Emergency Services
Have Rescued Them .
As All the Owners Cars are Under water .
All-around These parts of The North West are Under Water
On the Manchester Evening News .
Was an Artical about
A Woman Doing Yoga Exercises
In Handforth North Cheshire
on Manchester Relief A555 road .
As The Flood water had receded
She was Filmed by a Walker
In Bright Sunshine on the Carriageway carrying out Yoga moves . Lol
I've just watched some youtube coverage of the Bridgewater Canal filmed by a youtuber who was up at 6.30am on New Year's Day wondering what was going on.
The canal boat was moored and he was awoken by the ropes straining, the whole boat then lurched and listed. On getting out he noticed the canal was flowing like a river. Boats listing, one broke its moorings and was across the canal. They were above third of a mile from a huge breach of the bank and the canal is now more or less drained. They managed to get the boat away from the bank so it has at least settled level, but repairs will take months.
We are near to River Aire and a few weeks before Christmas they completed a multi million pound scheme to prevent flooding similar to 2015. From what I saw the scheme is already preventing flooding of properties downstream.
A friend lives in the affected area. A container full of materials for the allotments got washed away.
Flooding happens there regularly, but was made much worse this time by the canal bank failing.
Plenty of photos on official news outlets.
In January 2021 the river here reached a new high, and there was flooding we hadn't seen in the 22 years we had been living here. This time it was even higher, and flooded again. It doesn't bode well for the future!
Hello Alison
Which River has affected you
As the Mersey broke it's banks in Manchester and Cheshire
Caused Destruction Damage very bad Flooding .
Nearest to us affected was Bramhall 3 mile away and Stockport 6 mile
Also Northenden was very badly flooded like Fletchers Moss Didsbury Also .......
Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 03/1/2025
A friend lives in the affected area. A container full of materials for the allotments got washed away.
Flooding happens there regularly, but was made much worse this time by the canal bank failing.
Plenty of photos on official news outlets.
After Boxing Day 2015 floods a local charity had two twenty foot containers washed into the River Aire. One beached about 2 miles downstream, but it was badly twisted, door open, all contents gone and had to be removed by crane. Incredibly the second was never found. Suspicion is it broke up and is still in the deep river channel as there are too many shallow sections and weirs downstream.
Hi,
I’ve lived in south Manchester all my life. I remember the Mersey flooding back in the 1960’s; it was impossible to get down from Parrs Wood, all buses were stopped. Improved flood defences over the years has helped with this; controlled flooding of Fletcher Moss/ Parrs Wood playing fields/ golf courses has prevented flooding of residential properties in the main. Defences failed at & around our gym, the Waterside at East Didsbury which will take a while to return to use. However levels seem to have dropped quickly; Parrs wood fields seem to have cleared quicker than in Jan 2021
Fiona
You have to feel sorry for all those folk who live full time in canal boats on the Bridgewater canal canal who are now stuck until the breach has been fixed.
Our Local Manchester Airport Relief A555 in Handforth
The Water Had gone down on Sunday .
Exposing the Waterlogged damaged cars .
Apart from the Residue of mud and Sludge .
Which was going to be cleared and cleaned and Opened
But then Heavy Rain and Sleet overnight ,Sumerged and flooded the Cars again the next day .
And Now Snowing to add more
Problems When It eventually Thaws
And Melts into more water and the flood levels go up again
Quote: Originally posted by ZIZAG on 03/1/2025
Hello Alison
Which River has affected you
As the Mersey broke it's banks in Manchester and Cheshire
Caused Destruction Damage very bad Flooding .
Nearest to us affected was Bramhall 3 mile away and Stockport 6 mile
Also Northenden was very badly flooded like Fletchers Moss Didsbury Also .......
We're by the Mersey in Urmston, and although in no danger of flooding ourselves we are not far away from it!
We're in Sale right near the mersey and so far so good but the water level has been pretty high, my Aunt lives in Lymm and her house has flooded probably three times in the last ten years, last week it was at her front door but luckily no further. I know Trafford FC in the Flixton/Urmston area had to call off the New Years game due to the ground being badly flooded
My daughter, who lives in Sale, was visiting us over the holiday and flew home on 6th. Jan. Naturally we worried about what things would be like in Manchester, but everything was OK. The real problem was getting there.
At Aberdeen airport, the plane was waiting, but not the flight crew. After a long wait, the ground staff were nearing the end of their shift, so they boarded the passengers who waited in the plane for the flight crew to arrive. Then, they couldn't find the 'dispatcher' and after that, the de-icer broke down.
They finally got away about 2 hours late, but when they landed, the crew at Manchester couldn't find the wheel chocks for the plane, so there was a delay disembarking and unloading the luggage.
After all that, the trams were running OK and our daughter finally got home.
------------- Two drifters off to see the world.
I'm tired of reality, so I'm off to look for a good fantasy.
I’ve just flown Glasgow to Dubai, en route to NZ. Normally we’d fly over Manchester ATC but this time, after heading out west over the Clyde as usual, we did a U turn & went over to Edinburgh ATC (spectacular views of sun on snowy peaks stretching far north). I was told that an Emirates flight had been diverted from M/cr to Glasgow yesterday, I wonder if that’s why we re-routed.
Emirates flight from Glasgow sometimes goes via Manchester, other times via a route north of Newcastle. The bad weather may have resulted in reduction of traffic over the north west to accommodate longer landing and take off times in Manchester.
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Topic: Manchester & Cheshire Floods
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