An old sunken pack horse bridge revealed 

Ahh ok thank you

@@MartinZero Shows you right to be cautious about the photo. I looked at it and thought that the angle of the bridge and the direction of the road didn't look right. Even though the bridge you saw had lost its parapet, it doesn't have any hump and there is a difference in the height of the brickwork (stonework?) above the arch, too.

Brilliant reply.

I did wonder if that was the place. I had a wander around there back in the 90s when they drained the reservoir for dam maintenance. Just like here, you can walk across the old bridge that's normally submerged. There's the ruins of a church nearby, where a friend of my mum was married in.

@@bishwatntl yeah it's different construction. Quality newspaper story.

I know RIGHT?!?! Looks like it was just built not too long ago. Amazing. Great masonry work.

Crikey, life in the States.

Lake mead has been low for a few years, I was there in 2006 and you could see how much it had dropped. As for the bodies i had heard the mafia used to dump them in there

That sounds gruesome Mike

@@suzyqualcast6269 Don't blame the states, it's the current "leadership." SOS from America.....

@@MartinZero And that's the drinking water.......

Some good stuff ?

@@MartinZero Yep!! Old bridges and roads that I have never seen in years. Even if it rains in the next week or two, I hope the levels will drop enough for me to get even more good shots.

Vernwy was one of my favourites.

Thanks, yeah turned out a nice walk

Winnipeg has had its wettest year of record. South of the border, when you go to the west to Hoover Dam and Lake Mead, the water level is exceptionally low. But then recently Las Vegas had about ten days of deluge of water.

@@ricgal50 That deluge of water is due to normal summer monsoons. Those monsoons raised the Lake Mead water level up by 2 feet; a drop in the bucket unfortunately. Desert lands have no capacity to retain water and it just runs off ... to Las Vegas.

drought,bushfire,covid lockdowns,floods,moonsoon, last 4-5years been crap on eastcoast nsw.

I remember, a few years ago when California went through a bit of a wet period (I think 2018-20), you guys had your crazy bushfire apocalypse. Now it's switched again and we're in a horrible drought and you guys are going through a wet period. I think it has to do with El Niño Southern Oscillation. During an El Niño year, the Western pacific is very wet and Australia is dry. In an La Niña year, the opposite happens. We've had two La Niña years in a row and will probably have a third this winter.

@@veggiedisease123 yes indeed, i been observing what's happening in Europe and USA climate wise and it's like you stated, we kinda used to drought in Australia and so is California however it went on for a long long time.. those bushfires here were out of this world crazy and so was the recent floods this year.

Haweswater

Mardale green at haweswater was used as bombing practice

Ah ha that’s how the walls got knocked down then thanks

Went to Mardale many years ago when we had a dry season. Very interesting Nigel

Thanks Katherine

That sounds good

@@MartinZero Hi Martin, I think you'd find it interesting. Most of the buildings are gone, but the church is still there, albeit now a pile of carved stone. There is a small bridge in the middle of the ruins of the village, and the bottom most section of the mill. There is a beautiful retaining wall which kept the village from slipping down into the river. It too has the roots of trees clinging to the masonry. If the water is low enough, you can look across the valley, and can still see the ruins of several farms and remote dwellings. If you're ever in the area, it's well worth a visit. To me it was well worth the special drive from East Yorkshire. If you did happen to go, the carpark is at one end of the dam, and it's a bit of a walk from there to the village, so when you do get there, the village is silent, unless there are other people there. Now, West End village was relocated when the project began, and even the bodies of the dead were exhumed and taken to the new village for reinterment. The church was demolished by army engineers, in part as a training exercise, but also because it was quite apparent that it would forever stand above the waterline and would attract scuba enthusiasts to enter and explore the submerged portions, and thus was considered as a danger to life. It's a wonderful place, and it's quite a surreal experience. It's not just a dead and forgotten place. Every once in a while it comes back to life as visitors, as well as some of the last few inhabitants, come to view, and to remember the village they once called home. If you ever had the good fortune to encounter a former villager, then you'll hit the jackpot as they describe and explain what you're looking at. Again, early 1950s when the dam was built.

@@whitesapphire5865 Thx. Never heard of this; great insight - I'm off to google about it now 👍

Thank you sounds brilliant

cause we really didnt keep track of weather till recent years.. and are trying to make judgements when we have to consider how things were 1000s of years prior

Thanks very much Mark

same as me Nobby

Thanks David

Thanks Paul

Thanks Trevor

This kind of thing will happen more and more often as more fresh water enters the Atlantic from the ice caps. Eventually it'll become weak enough to the point it'll actually cause Western Europe to freeze. Where we are geographically it should be much cooler than it is, but the jet stream brings a lot of warm air from the Gulf of Mexico.

@@TalesOfWar I think its the Gulf Stream brings warm water from the Gulf of Mexico. The Jet Stream is an air movement affected by minor changes in the tilt of the earth (esp relative to the sun), and atmospheric drag as the earth spins the atmosphere does not rotate at quite the same rate - in part due to assorted mountain ranges, its not a lot but enough to move around. As to if man made additional problems particulary leading to relative warming of the north pole seas has an effect thereon is presumed but its not easy to model the effects and the causes. Its probably easier to model the atmosphere of jupiter than it is the earths !

@@highpath4776 Both are linked I believe. The cooling of the atlantic would give the jet stream less energy in the form of heat.

@@TalesOfWar shoehorning facts into your theories is always dangerous. It’s simply an example of confirmation bias where you conclusions become that any weather event is evidence of what you believe; when it’s far from it.

@@xr6lad Exactly.

Thanks Shirley

Thanks David

Thanks Tony

Definitely ! 😉

Off there soon.

Went there last week, it's amazing, so much of the old village revealed including a lovely little bridge, and the old church. It got low in 2018 also, that year I went in October and Derwent Hall was revealed. Plus the old lover's seat alongside the river, the water wasn't that low last week, but I reckon it won't be long before it will be exposed. There's also an old Mini not far from the visitors centre that ended up in the reservoir a few decades ago, that makes an appearance when the water gets low. Loads of old remains, not just of the Derwent village but also old farms, walls etc, including bits and bobs on the Howden Reservoir further up stream.

I do wonder if the old village of Ashopton will ever become revealed, I'm not sure it will as the water is much deeper where that village was, and is most probably silted up, only got to see the size of the A57 viaduct during construction, and how much of it is visible now the water levels have dropped, still very much submerged but it would be amazing if that ever got revealed.

Thank you

Thanks Elizabeth

Thanks, and yeah I wouldnt swim in there

Cheers Chris 👍

Thanks Richard

Thanks Michael

Its finding them Ruth

@@MartinZero Hmmm. Adverts in local papers? Anyway, good luck with all you do.

Thanks Andrew

Thanks William

Good stuff, You should be ok it will take some rain to fill that

We never got to that one, wish I had now

Thanks Phil 👍🏻

Thank you