A very well done video, clear descriptive and watchable unlike many other videos that become boring without a description of where and when the film was made. Well done.
Takes me back to the late 80s, when warm brook overflowed its banks and went from a 4 ft wide little thing to a 40 foot wide torrent. you could just barely see the tops of the footbridge rails in the middle of it. they didn't name storms back then.
@@scottanderson3751You lefties and your apocalyptic predictions. Hilarious. Mind you, you have a 100% record so far. Wrong, every single time. There is no climate crisis. Stop worrying and enjoy your life.
@@scottanderson3751: 😱😂 It’s called weather, we have quite a lot of it, every year! Been happening for around 4.6 billion years, every so often it gets a little more extreme than usual and it’s no big deal
There is no building work around this stretch of river, it's all up in the moors. There just isn't enough natural drainage to cope with all the extra rain.
@@mikebarton yes, I know. That's what I'm saying. The land itself can only hold so much water before rivers overflow. The OP was inexplicably blaming this on buildings, in an area where there are no buildings.
Where in the OP's statement does he say 'this flood' ? The more land is built over and farmland has drains put in instead of leaving as watermeadow the more there will be flooding downstream.
I use that road with the 90 left and 90 right on a very regular basis, luckily not on Friday. It was interesting dropping down into Two Dales, I was one of the last vehicles through Darley Bridge on my circuitous route from Chesterfield to Youlgrave
@@adamlea6339Quite right Adam. Never underestimate the Peak District weather. It may seem like a pretty rural area but it can catch you unawares. Always be prepared and learn how to use a map and compass.
Many people are still foolish and reckless about driving into flood waters. Fair enough in a Land Rover, Range Rover, Land Cruiser, but not in a car or hairdressers SUV.
This is indeed interesting footage, latterly - these featured flooded roads are on the tops, above and between Matlock and Ashover village. That Darwin Lake features - > it used to be known as Flash Dam and was a lake, that actually acted as source water point descending to a couple of stopped Dams which in turn acted as power source for a mill down at the bottom near to Darley Dale. The thing is that 'they' in their grabbing wisdom took ownership of Flash Dam then drained it. 'dried' the site and built exclusive houses upon it. This footage seems to perfectly explain how and why Flash came about in the first place, the irony being they renamed the new housing mini complex Darwin Lake, seems the lake being moved to the road outside continues to thrive regardless. Don't know bout disrupted floodplains, this place is up in the hills!! Btw, Flash Dam was a popular local draw for folk around in the hot summer time, twas crowded. During WW2 a Wellington came down close by, the pilot eventually to knock on the door of the farm house directly across from the Darwin Lake entrance of today
I spent some wonderful sunny Sundays up at Flash dam with my parents when I was a kid in the late 60's, early 70's. I remember going for a wander round it after they'd drained it in the mid 90's. The magic had truly gone.
You're right - I nearly drowned in Flash Dam when I was little. Popular with boats and families. Used to love walking around its edges. As you point out, it was a feeder dam for the lower dams that lead down through Ladygrove woods to the mill down in Darley Dale. I do't know if any of the houses in 'Darwin Lake' suffered flooding but I was shocked at the volume of water coming out and flooding the Farley road.
That’s a river behaving as it should in flood conditions, bursting its banks and flooding the fields. The problems start when you try to restrict its flow by increasing the bank heights and then increasing the flow of water to lower levels
Know where the air intake is on your vehicle! Some of the speeds of the camera driver through the floods are way too fast for most vehicles. The slower you drive through the water (1st gear) the less chance you have of causing the water to rise and get into your engine. I paid dearly for driving too fast a few years ago, please take is slow and your vehicle may live to carry on driving beyond the flood.
Ha! I’ve literally just written a comment because I wrecked a ford focus driving through a flood. Got into the engine and wrecked it. And I wasn’t driving any speed at all. This time around I’ve seen people with massive bow waves in front of their car which makes life much more difficult for people trying to go the other way
Absolutely, many new cars have the air intake really low down. First bit of standing water of any depth and it's ingested into the engine. That's usually the end of the engine as water doesn't compress. Don't know how well EV's cope though
On average it only takes 11 inches of water to float your average saloon car. Treat flood water with extreme caution, what happens if you manage to lodge a wheel in a blown manhole cover?
relatable:i got a huge garden,like big enough for a tennis court,a trampoline,a climbing frame and another garden in the garden i look out the window this morning and low and behold roughly 45% of the garden is flooded to the point you could ride a small boat in it
Youlgreave is way up above the River Bradford so I think that it would only have to handle rain water and definitely not river overflow. There could be some run off from the fields above the village if the soil becomes too saturated to soak up excessive rainfall.
Water always finds the easiest path and this is a stream were water should be running. We just build things in the way of path of water then complain about flooding .
@@davidgreenwood5241of course you are. Anything to whinge about migrants. "Floods! We'd have no floods is there were no migrants!" What a weird little world it must be in your head. Just to state the obvious: there are no housing developments in Padley Gorge. They haven't built council estates to settle migrants up on the moors. Calm down and stop watching Murdoch trash.
@@davidgreenwood5241 Then you would have to sacrifice the economic benefits of having more tax payers of working age. I'd prefer having lower taxes/better public services. There is a trade off, but I would like to be able to buy a house in my lifetime. It feels sometimes like as a country we used to build things to fix our problems and now we are happy to stagnate.
@@tomnicholson2115If you're referring to inadequate maintenance of rivers and drainage, you're quite right. If you think this weather is something to do with human activity, you're a twit (and, inevitably in that case, a left wing twit.)
@@howardjones7370 It is just the weather, just getting worse all over the planet. Along with forest fires landslides and other weather driven problems.
Explain how you came to that conclusion and the reason for it in the first place. Alternatively learn some basic physics and figure out for yourself the reason for so much heavy rain. I've certainly never seen it so bad and so widespread in my 82 years of living in Derbyshire.
@@trevcam6892 I have been researching the agenda since 2006 and I can tell you that they have been engineering weather for decades. They have the technology and it is no secret. So maybe it's you who should learn some basics. And also the reason you haven't seen so much rain is because I am correct, as from your comment you admitted that you have no idea anyway! Fires, Tsunamis, Earth quakes, aerosol spraying, hurricanes which don't act normally and many other things which I can't go into because the comment will be deleted by RU-vid. I usually lose about 12 a week. So that's how and why I came to this conclusion.
@@trevcam6892eh? I'm 50 and used to live near the river Rother. In the 80's on a couple of occasions it swelled to about 20 times its size, so that's nonsense.
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522 Yes. I'm also from Chesterfield. Horns Bridge has always been susceptible to folding due to the confluence of the Rother and the Hipper and the area being one of the lowest points in the town. However, the flooding is more widespread this time. I stand by my comment.
