The afternoon of Thursday 12th August saw a week’s rain fall in an hour across south Manchester.

In some places the drains simply couldn’t cope with that volume of rain falling in such a small period, and we saw some flooding and road closures in that afternoon.

The road passing under the railway bridge in Bramhall, which was under a metre of water at one point.  Station Road, by Cheadle Hulme station, was also under several inches of water.

Plenty of people had all sorts of problems getting home on the Thursday evening, some telling me a 10 minute journey turned into a 90 minute slog.

At around 4.30pm that day I was driving back from Cheadle Hulme to Gatley.  I got through before the roads were closed.  I stopped in Cheadle and saw that parts of the Massie Street car park were under a couple of inches of water, with a couple of the shops having water leaking in through the back door.

At the Wilmslow Road end of the High Street there was more water, with both road and pavement covered.

If your property was affected by flooding, the National Flood Forum has  a wealth of advice on what you should do next.

One warning: flooding is often followed by cowboy builders trying to take advantage, telling houseowners that they need various (often expensive) pieces of work to be done.  Be very careful and check the facts – don’t get taken for a ride.

Locally across Stockport councillors were kept informed of the key problems and council workers were out doing everything they could to improve the situation.

From what I saw, it seems to me that the water drained away pretty quickly after the rain stopped.  Certainly by Friday morning I didn’t see much water still around.

I’m interested to know of any places where that didn’t happen and where we still had water causing problems by the Friday morning.

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