Drone Flood Footage Bedford and surrounding areas - Sat 28th Sept 2024

[@peterwilliamson1825]

Get used to it. Record high temperatures and record rain fall, all in recent years. Marston Mortaine where the A421, is flooded is only 42m (137ft) above sea level. Considering how far away Marston and Bedford is from the sea, is easy to see your the rivers can quickly be overwhelmed.

[@shaunmk]

great filming, terrible flooding... its bad around milton keynes.. thanks for sharing

[@tomkent4656]

Handel's Water Music would have suited better😅

[@BeyondBedlam70]

@@tomkent4656 🤣🤣

[@johntisbury]

Flooding aside, those trees at Oakley always look awesome in their regimented rows.

[@MukeshGPatel]

Nice bit of filming! Would have liked to see footages of Kempston and Great Denham.

[@BeyondBedlam70]

Thanks 😊. I'd like to have gotten the footage too but my drone batteries weren't up to the task sadly. Gt Denham/Kempston flood plains were absolutely full (still a bit of surface water out there today but didn't bring the drone to work with me)

[@Stefan_Boerjesson]

Nice flight and footage.

[@jonathanlarge-w8n]

we crossed Turvey Saturday morning those cars were there then about 0930-10

[@BeyondBedlam70]

This was taken about 1400

[@johnwaller2886]

Looks "worse" than i saw, Easter weekend 1998. (when i "lived" in Harrold).

[@BeyondBedlam70]

the 98 floods were higher, just! I was out taking photos on my motorbike during those floods 😁 and fond memories of people canoeing through the Dodgems on Longholme as the fairground was underwater 🤣

[@rennyleach2190]

Every year it gets worse here

[@peterworby2049]

Because farmers in the area no longer dig the drainage ditches like they used too but in Odell it's flooded for hundreds of years...

[@ruth.greening]

​@@peterworby2049Not to mention land grab by geo engineering madness.

[@rennyleach2190]

And still the government build more houses and distribution facilities

[@peterworby2049]

Not the govt, private companies

[@rogerfurneaux1529]

@@peterworby2049 But the govt. order local councils to pass planning permission for ever more houses in flood plains. But I see no devastation here on the scale that storm Helene recently wreaked in the USA...

[@peterworby2049]

@@rogerfurneaux1529 they talk about it here but it never happens...it's our local councils who give planning permission

[@cazfloss1990]

Great footage.

[@peterworby2049]

What is the soundtrack please

[@tomkent4656]

It says in the description. Ai generated.

[@BeyondBedlam70]

@@peterworby2049 I used Udio to create the soundtrack at approx 0230 on Sunday morning 😁.

[@peterworby2049]

@@BeyondBedlam70 it's a fabulous soundtrack

[@peterworby2049]

And your point with the blunt sarcasm is?​@@tomkent4656

[@peterworby2049]

Just wondered as it contains bits of music that are similar to other stuff I've heard....just wondering what tracks it used to generate the piece ..🙂👍​@@BeyondBedlam70

[@alanpontet1671]

What's that big dramatic music about? Sounds like a film score. Doesn't fit with this video.

[@BeyondBedlam70]

meh, it was 0230 on a Sunday morning and i didn't have a bit of music long enough to go with the vid so i created something in Udio. Totally guilty of not putting much effort into it and this is the result 🤣

[@alanpontet1671]

I see nothing that dramatic - it's a flood plain and it's flooded. Those who build on flood plains have themselves to blame - and those who buy property they know to be on a flood plain have themselves to blame.

[@BeyondBedlam70]

@alanpontet1671 the unusual aspect in this particular case is the unseasonal duration of the flooding. We often get a couple of days of it at this time of year (although it's more often in Jan/Feb) but its never been over a week at a time in the 30 years I've been in Bedford and it was almost 2 weeks this time.

[@alanpontet1671]

@@BeyondBedlam70 acknowledged - it's still a flood plain doing its job.