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Hope you’ve got everything of sentimental value safe and you get yourself to safety.

Just finished moving majority of stuff upstairs, partner & daughter already at higher ground friends house, ta.

What I don't understand is they're telling us it'll reach about 7m on .gov

Northenden is our nearest station:

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/station/5101 over 3m now.

Warning says 7m peak in about an hour.

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/target-area/013FWFGM35

This other site shows Northenden at similar level

https://riverlevels.uk/mersey-northenden

But shows Didsbury 4m higher at over 7m.

https://riverlevels.uk/greater-manchester-didsbury

So going back to .gov there doesn't seem to be an equivalent station for Didsbury. https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels?location=Didsbury

So either the river is due a 4m rise in the next hour or two, or (more likely) it is peaking now and the .gov level info & warning info don't relate to each other?

I might see it differently in the cold light of day, but it seems unusual right now.

Totally agree with you confusion. We're in East Didsbury.

I have been looking at the Northenden station level all day as it broke the 3m mark. Flood defence basin was quite full already at 4pm.

When the flood warning came out at 8pm and said river level will peak at 7m I almost messed myself as an additional 4m would guarantee us flooding, big time.

I think the 7m is related to the river level at the sluice gate into the flood defences at East Didsbury and is the same as the Didsbury level on river levels.uk.

Seems, fingers crossed, that peak maybe now, looking at Northenden levels. Not much rise over last hour.

Had a knock from police in last ten mins advising us to evacuate but also saying we should be ok to stay put. A few streets away they're saying strongly advising people to leave.

No sleep tonight.

Hello!

Yes, no sleep and kinda glad my confusion is shared. I'll be writing to FWIs.gov after this all washes through. These images show the differences. Plus river hasn't visibly risen on my last walk down there.

Levels dropping... sleep might happen after all.

Hope all stays OK there with you.

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Cheers.

Shit like this isn't helping though: https://mobile.twitter.com/emmerich_mike/status/1352103252511363072

Not helpful Mike, not helpful.

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I hope everyone has moved everything they need to and is safe.

I slept for a bit in the end. Glad I hadn't seen that tweet. Hope all still OK over there with you.

Almost everything we own is upstairs. Partner has decided this'll be a good time to decorate the lounge & kitchen. We could be like this a few more days as the river is due more rain plus snow-melt so we'll remain cautious but wary of the wild predictions too.

Chapter closed.

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I grew up 'round there. Northenden / Didsbury has never been so famous, seems weird seeing it on the news.

(Glad you're OK, being flooded must be shit).

https://www.livescience.com/first-dinosaur-butthole-found.html

Would bang.

Less than a minute between the above two posts.

I guess as a lot of media city folks live in Northenden & Didsbury it got a bit more media focus than other areas might have done?

a lot of media city folks live in Northenden & Didsbury

Wouldn't have allowed that sort 'round there when I was a Lad!

Wouldn't have allowed that sort 'round there when I was a Lad!

Didsbury? Not posh enough?

Who knew there'd been flooding into houses in Lymm? All the news I saw was about S.Mcr.

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I left south Manchester (Wythenshawe) in the late '80s. At that time there weren't any media city folks at all, because there wasn't any Media City.

I used to love Didsbury - it was more academic than posh at that time.

The pub crawl along Wilmslow Road from The Didsbury to the Red Lion was perfect.

Weren't some of the Media City folks hanging around at BBC New Broadcasting House/Oxford Road or Granada Studios and so still in the city?

The Lass O’Gowrie used to be full of media types back in the late 80s, as did the Cornerhouse cafe.

The Lass O’Gowrie

It's been a while since I've been in there. Looks like it's had a clean.

I did my 'A' Levels at St John's, next door to Granada TV. There were always lots of Granada people about, but I'm not sure the 'media type' we know today existed in those days.

I haven’t been to Manchester since 1996, to my eternal shame.

Actually, that’s a lie. I was in Didsbury on September 11th 2001, for work. Just as we were leaving to get the train back to London, one of the people we’d been meeting with said a plane had flown into the World Trade Center.