Only last week was I having a conversation with an old 'hand' who offered the view that we'd seen the last of flooding on Crown Meadow. "It hasn't flooded for twenty years - it must be something do with the course of the river having changed", he said. Well, he spoke too soon!
After today's torrential rain, following the heavy rain of the last few days, the Meadow was well and truly awash tonight. Jan and I went to have a look and took a few photographs.
The River Trent has broken it's banks in several places and the water is a swirling fast flowing brown soup. We drove up to Barlaston and the Meaford meadows were all under water.
I understand that they've had monsoon type rain up stream so there's still a lot of water to come down and if it continues to rain tonight and tomorrow I shudder to think what it will look like.
