StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: 2015

white - 8th Jan 2005 gold - Storm Desmond 05 Dec 2015 The second "once in 100 year event" in a decade - subsequently, serious flood defences were built ... which have kept the floodwaters away from the city centre. A short distance from the Joiners' Arms is a biscuit bakery ... both floods wrecked the ground floor ovens, causing a nationwide shortage of my favourite ginger biscuits, as cleaning and repairs took about six months ! There was a car hire place just along from here, and the staff were kept busy driving the cars away to safety, onto higher ground. I think they also manged to save some furniture / computers ... Sadly, in some of the other areas badly affected, there were casualties [at least one death from drowning]

Pulling away from the dock / Quayside in Newcastle upon Tyne after the lunch break, about to pass under the Millennium Bridge [the pedestrian blinking eye bridge]. Overall, the row raised several thousand pounds for the RNLI. image recently forwarded to me.

The information plaque on the building for Dolgoch HEP ... Sorry it is a bit blurred ...

This discreet [non-descript] building caught my eye & ear as we walked past. It was emitting a sort of rushing & humming sound, not at all loudly. It is the power station for Dolgoch Falls. Micro-HEP plant installed capacity is 100kW & commissioned in 2015

River Tyne flow rates / depth above normal flow, as measured just upstream from the Alston Arches. Copied from the Environment Agency website. "Storm Desmond" Shows the typical sharp rise and slow decline of a spate passing downstream. . Historical data - peak flow depth on 18th May 2013 at 1345 was 3,27m and the highest ever was 3,45m which occurred on Saturday 8th January 2005 at 0200.

Flow dynamics around on of the "Alston Arches" piers, the narrower stone courses are about 2ft (60cm) high, the wider ones are about 3ft.