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Photograph donated and reproduced by kind permission by Koltregaskes.
I've walked home before with a broken bike and along the canal (and back that day) but this was something else. The A4 was only slightly moving when I returned to it to get home. The side from Thatcham was fine but towards it was just near-static. I decided to go down Lower Way as it's a shorter route to my home near Thatcham station but this was one of the pics I took while going down it. Basically most of the lower part of Lower Way was like this. People had to walk up on the hill on the grass to walk along the road. Cars were being turned back up and onto the A4!! A few cars and a van has been abandoned, stuck in the middle of this. It didn't help that water was furiously gushing down from the hill in 2 or 3 places and that this was all right next to the sewage works (my work shoes went straight in the bin when I got back). I had parts of my journey where I was walking in water well over my ankles.
It didn't get much better once I got off this road and onto Station Road, this and roads off it where water logged, you could see people had just given up and parted there cars anywhere they could and walked the rest of their journey. I was fearing the worse, thinking my house was flooded but thankfully it wasn't.
I didn't go down to see but Thatcham station was supposed to be even worse than Newbury station. Going pass it this morning it was OK but the grass area in front of the pub near it had 2 mini swimming pool, parts of roads in my residential estate were still flooded and you could see a few houses with piles of rubbish from their homes sitting outside their doors.
And it's just started to rain again!
