Wellington boots

Following the recent wet weather, Elvington main road was flooded again this morning under about 6" of water in places.

I noticed this Evening Press news article: Elvington celebrates as flood defences are finally completed, 3rd January 2008.

I suppose it's a slightly misleading headline. The key part of the flood defenses is a pump to move water from the beck in the village into the river Derwent, which presumably can have a higher water level than the beck. According to the article, the pump will be connected to the electricity supply tomorrow.

As a software engineer, I am used to working with the assumption that connecting something to the electricity is somewhere near the start a project, not the completion! There then follows significant testing, bug-fixing, adjusting, tinkering and redesign.

Back to Elvington: apparently, there is a temporary pump working though. I wonder what's gone wrong.

Today's worry is that last time the road was flooded, the bus home took a detour, turning off the road before the flood. No problem, except that I would normally get off the bus the other side of the flood.

I wasn't awake enough to think about wellies when I left the house at 7:15am.