The heavens opened overnight and Hertford found itself dealing with floods. We were lucky. We got out of our neighbourhood before the rising water blocked off our cul-de-sac and trapped several cars in about four feet of water. Unfortunately our train journey wasn't so good. Our 6:25am train was cancelled, then the 6:34 train that we then boarded was also cancelled and became the 6:55am. It finally left the station gone 7:00am. Little at the time did we know how bad elsewhere in the town it was getting. Several rivers broke their banks and many fields and businesses were totally flooded, including Hertford Football Club and the Riverside where Santa got Tiny's house. They had to lay off a third of their workforce because of the damage and lost 60% of their stock.
Dawn and I decided to leave work early because there was just one train an hour to Hertford, instead of the usual four. We were delighted to make it home again at all. The flood water that had blocked Lower Hatfield Road had receded enough for us to get into our road. However, there was still no way under the viaduct.
Above you can see, a photo that we took on the 14th shows flood waters that still hadn't receded four days later.
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