London floods

Crikey that's insane.

Impressive indeed, and as in the case of Dresden it points to bad water management upstream, e.g. encroachment on flood plains.

I guess the planning people are in denial.

No, The Nile is in Egypt

lol.

^^

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I bet skully has a take on this.

Oh dear.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/hammersmith-flooding-firefighters-rush-to-stem-torrents-of-water-after-pipe-bursts-in-west-london-a3751101.html

Another major pipe that's probably well past its swell-by date.

Goldhawk Road, as well, possibly causally related:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/shepherds-bush-flooding-engineers-battle-to-repair-massive-hole-left-by-major-deluge-on-goldhawk-a3757081.html

Tooting

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-43314209

Impressive.

Even more impressive that the Tube apparently kept running. They must have good drainage in that area.

Flood warning for tonight and tomorrow:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-weather-capital-to-be-battered-by-torrential-rain-and-gales-as-warning-issued-over-possible-a3826316.html

The idea of a 'yellow rain warning' will definitely keep me indoors.

Needless to say, after the downpours there were quite a few floods, with Kent seemingly affected the worst.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/kent-flooding-swathes-of-gravesend-strood-and-meopham-submerged-as-huge-thunderstorm-and-flash-a3850291.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44293941

In London:

From the Standard article:

Parts of London were also hit by flash floods including Bexleyheath, Erith, Blackfriars and Stratford.

From the BBC:

London was also badly hit with about 30 houses flooded by up to 25in (64cm) of water in Erith, south-east London.

Four people were also rescued from their cars in Stratford, in the east of the city.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/thames-water-ordered-to-pay-back-120m-over-leaks-or-15-per-customer-a3857596.html

So I was indoors for all of the rain, but it didn't look like the kind of rain likely to cause floods:

https://www.standard.co.uk/standard-home/weather/roads-closed-as-floods-hit-london-amid-sizzling-heatwave-a3887206.html

Maybe it was worse elsewhere than in Crouch End ...

Thanks to @doubleodavey for posting in the commute thread:

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/clapton-flooding-burst-main-leaves-road-underwater-1-5720639

I hope the schoolhouse won't be permanently damaged by this.

It's looking pretty bad. I was living in the adjacent block of flats up until a couple of weeks ago. Last I heard police / fire brigade were evacuating the flats and they expected folks to be in a hotel for the next week.

Someone had only just started work on the school house readying it for conversion into a meditation place. The car park (and bike store) is completely flooded up to the ceiling (pic from facebook).

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Wow. I can't remember if I objected to the car park at the time (there was a campaign against that development and the resultant loss of the area's historic identity, e.g. losing the Ship Aground), but I always thought it was a pretty stupid idea to have one underground so close to a river that may be being protected from being flooded upriver by Thames surges at the moment, but what if the Thames barrier failed, etc., but I certainly didn't expect a mains burst there of all places. They normally seem to occur on busy high streets. (Not that I didn't know there was a major water pipe there, as it's clearly visible next to the Princess.)

I ran past it this morning.

There was a torrent of water running over the towpath, so I imagine that the pub is affected too.

There are around five or six cars submerged, and a couple of bowsers being filled with water.

it looked really really bad

Yes definitely, the car park has flooded previously I think (up to knee height, though).

I always thought it was such a shame about the ship aground and the school being hoarded off and unused - their retention and refurbishment was part a S106 for the flats I think (the old school was supposed to become a museum).

There was a bit of activity around the old pub about 12 months ago with some building work going on, it was meant to become a gurdwara - but they wanted to add height to it leading to planning issues. There's been no work since.

he old school was supposed to become a museum

Yes, unfortunately the Clapton Arts Trust couldn't raise the funds. It was a good plan.

Our mains bursts are obviously nothing against what's facing Bangkok:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/oct/03/as-bangkok-sinks-could-this-anti-flood-park-be-the-answer