If you thought last weekend's Ciara was bad enough, Dennis has now joined in, dumping even more heavy prolonged rain on saturated ground. The Afon Clwyd catchment copped it even more than last time, spilling its waters even more widely over the Rhuthun/Ruthin floodplain, temporarily rewriting the landscape—but at Glasdir waters got not much higher than last Sunday, still at the foot of the original bund.
Flood alerts from Llanfwrog Urban came through at 5.05a.m. this morning. The Clwyd peaked at about 8a.m. It didn't flood any properties that we're aware of but it did enter a yard off Mwrog Street, where the force of water blew the under-road culvert by the Park Place. Interestingly, when compared to Ciara, while there was more of a spread of water over a wider area adjacent to Glasdir, there was less coming through the Mwrog Street flood relieve scheme. There was also much less surface water north of Rhuthun when compared to Ciara—other, of course, than the road to Llanynys, which was transformed into a makeshift canal of soiled bistre.
Meanwhile, the Pont Howkin flood measure was showing the highest it had been since the 2012 floods.
By 3p.m. much of the surface water at Glasdir had quickly subsided, restoring much of the scenery to its steady state, with residents spared, granted an amnesty.
By 3p.m. much of the surface water at Glasdir had quickly subsided, restoring much of the scenery to its steady state, with residents spared, granted an amnesty.