Puckshole still closed due to heavy rain causing another landslide

No blog posts for several days as I've been at a Green Councillors conference at the Local Government Association in London - more of that in coming days and also the nightmare journey home by many trains and buses yesterday.

However I wanted to post these photos of the road closure at Puckshole - taken yesterday you can see the second landslide down the slope from the Folley Farm drive - plus below the drives of several other houses washed away - at one point over 50cm depth of drive has disappeared. Goodness knows what impact all this silt and soil will all have on the brook further downstream? And how have the sewers coped?

The last photo in this series is the road down to Puckshole still running with water - although access to the lane and those houses was more clear - earlier they had been completely cut off as the brook filled the lane.

I suspect this damage is very minor compared to many other sites in Stroud and beyond - I hear Slad Road has again been hit bad with homes flooded.

I hope all this will lead to more interest in how we manage our water and climate change - already been asked for quotes by press but it is hard to focus on such issues at this time when many still face the misery of nightmare journeys, flooded homes and all....more of that in coming posts but too tired to do much today!!