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Topic: 6.30pm tonight: Serious flooding and traffic jams in Isleworth

Flooded roads in IsleworthWell I've never seen Twickenham Road between the hospital and Linkfield Road flooded like it is tonight...cars and buses and cylists are wading through...it must be nearly a foot deep!The southbound traffic goes back passed Busch Corner..solid back to Gillette Corner..and then amazingly solid back northwards passed Tescos and to Wyke Green Golf Club.It seems that the dip in the Great West Road outside PC World MAY be flooded too..as the traffic London Bound is solid too.Big surprise is the heavy flooding on the Richmond Road, in Old Isleworth..again a one foot deep lake with waves!! that is causing problems too.River crane burst its banks?

Jim Lawes ● 6883d22 Comments

Thanks, Jim, for that, It even shows one of the street surfers I mentioned! Brentford...Britain's answer to Venice?

MP Parry ● 6876d

MichelThere is a great picture of your road..Windmill Road North during the recent flooding..on the BBC website.One for the scrapbook!

Jim Lawes ● 6880d

Great picture, Jim! You should have come round the other day - the flooding was much worse than in that photo and extended further up the street than ever before. Cars broke down in the road and had to be pushed clear, while parked cars were in danger of floating away. Reminded me of newsreel footage of New Orleans... One of my neighbours and I were discussing investing in a canoe or dinghy in anticipation of next time!

MP Parry ● 6881d

Just a quick message to say I loved everyones photo'sWell Done Everyone

Simon Anderson ● 6881d

Hello MichelYes it was a year ago that we last reported the Windmill Road North flooded road and the following picture was published both here and in the Brentford and Chiswick Times.I recall that neither Ealing or Hounslow Councils were sure whose patch it was on..the Borough borderline being in the vicinity.  But I'm sure one of the two took some action then and cleared the faulty drains....but seemingly that wasn't enough!Your road is just the one to visit after a rainfall..the sights are worth recording! Sad about flooded homes though.I remember a line pedestrians wading down the centre of the road..the shallowest part...waving white handkerchiefs to the held up motorists!!  Memories!!

Jim Lawes ● 6882d

I live in Windmill Road and the water was so deep yesterday that some enterprising teenagers got out their surf boards and were surfing the tidal waves thrown up by passing buses! Another was splashing entertainingly thru the waves on a unicycle...All very amusing until the rising water started surging down our hallway - and I suspect our neighbour next door is going to come back from holiday to find a cellar full of foul black mud!Forum members with long memories may recall that the issue of flooding in Windmill Road (which happens with predictable regularity) was discussed here 2/3 years ago - raised by Jim IIRC. At that time a local councillor said he 'would look into it'. And that, needless to say, was the end of that!

MP Parry ● 6882d

...blessed nuisance - eh?

Sarah Felstead ● 6883d

Where was your spare card Sarah?????

Audrey Walton ● 6883d

JamesWell done they came out fine two photo's of Richmond Park?

Edward Fitzgerald ● 6883d

Hello Jim.  It is my sons (nohemaynothaveitback) digital camera - a Sony Cyber shot 5.0 with 4 times optical zoom (says she, copying it from the front of the camera) and I can only do very basic shots with it.

Sarah Felstead ● 6883d

Oh buggerJust go here http://isleworthtw7.ohsohosted.com/viewtopic.php?t=95

James Kirkby ● 6883d

Buggerhttp://jimkirkby.com/tw7/photo/Amhurstankledeep.jpg/hope that works

James Kirkby ● 6883d

Ankle deep our end.http://jimkirkby.com/tw7/photo/Amhurstnkledeep.jpg/

James Kirkby ● 6883d

Sarah:That's a good clear snap..in the rain.What camera do you use..just a digital or something more complicated?

Jim Lawes ● 6883d

Phil:I laughed at that..but I shouldn't have really. How awful!You humour overcomes it..hopefully.What's it like living on a newly discovered flood plain! ;0)

Jim Lawes ● 6883d

I was out in the rain and luckily had the camera with me - but the card was full of precious photographs of friend Pauline’s new Grand daughter - so I missed some of the wonderful shots available.  Got to College road and just could not resist finding one photo to take off to make room for snapping this - the first drain I came across had a small geyser coming up through the man hole cover - and the next at the junction with Ridgeway road - well!  The picture tells the story.  No wonder the road was flooded under the railway bridge at Isleworth Station at the foot of the hill.  All the surface water, and what couldn’t make it into the drain plus the drain water itself was pouring down the road!

Sarah Felstead ● 6883d

JimWe live in a flat owned by the Notting Hill Housing Trust, which means we have rising damp, falling damp and damp with no apparent source which seems to arrive by taxi.On the plus side we do not need our own television, as we're able to listen to our neighbour's with perfect clarity.We don't need a roofer, we need a guy with a bulldozer and a grudge.  On second thoughts, a decent hairdryer on medium power would probably do the trick.

Phil Andrews ● 6883d

PhilIt is a bad flood isn't it. Hopefully you and neighbours are ok.  Needing help?oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooend

Jim Lawes ● 6883d

JimI hope you were on your way home from somewhere and not adding  to the chaos to take photo's?

Edward Fitzgerald ● 6883d

In the TOP flat, it wasn't how far it was coming up that was our issue. It was how much was coming through!!!!Need a good Roofer!!!

James Kirkby ● 6883d

Our estate is under water, as is (rather worryingly) the flat upstairs.

Phil Andrews ● 6883d

Only a bus seemed brave enough to tackle the lake!.At the bottom of Linkield Road the waves were ..this high!I'm going to give it a try!oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooIt will be chaos for hours yet!

Jim Lawes ● 6883d

Well reported Ann.Windmill Road north is notorious!here a view outside the Fish and Chip on the corner of Linkfield Road!

Jim Lawes ● 6883d

The A4 is chaotic - inner lanes unusable due to flooding from the 'MacDonalds Roundabout' Eastwards. Major flooding just West of Osterley station is bringing traffic to a halt - just got home after passing it at about 6.30 - the water was lapping over the sills of the cars parked on the road, and the water was over the central resewrvation.More locally to Brentford, Windmill Road North of the A4 is flooded and seemingly impassable as everyone is turning round, so the roads around it are fairly gridlocked. People trying to stop the water getting into their houses on Enfield Road. Flooding also by PC World, but not as bad as in other places.Best get those wellies out!

Ann Haddleton ● 6883d