Ignoring a road closed sign on flooded road

nrgserv said:

curious as to what area this 'uns in :d

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+1 :d

I just spoke to a good source and apparently the sign is only an advisory.

If you still want to use the route, then i would suggest you just take it easy past his house to keep the peace.

Do as to others and all that

when st asaph flooded there were loads of signs
like this... which one do you have to comply with

eventually you came up against blue signs and a police manned roadblock, which could only be passed if you had a valid reason... as this guy must have had

even though I've lived here all my life and I've never seen that defender lol

Some councils like Cambridgeshire try to keep out even the 4x4 troop ...


but, no matter how much you block the road though it wont work, most have webbed fingers and toes, and some have gills ...

the other thing is... in my pic if you were coming out of the closed road you had a grey non reflective sign facing you next to a bright cone... I wonder how many people almost hit it at night

i had this problem a couple of days ago we went to see a old friend of my long gone dad pulled into the road he lives off and the road was sign posted closed flooded and there was a guy sat in his van stopping anybody going down the road i ex-planed to him why he still said go around if not i will report you so we went the 4 mile trip around to find that we still had to go through the flood to get to his house when we went to go the guy was still there he stop us again ask us why we came back through the flood i told him again found out he was a local builder who didn't want his new house

I was told once by a common or garden PC that

ROAD CLOSED meant that . Do NOT pass the sign

However ROAD CLOSED AHEAD you could pass the sign until the road was closed

Nowadays it seems the practice to use ROAD CLOSED with the 'except for access' add on... Not if there's a footnote to the sign stating "except Land Rovers".

It is the inalienable right of every freeborn Englishman*, enshrined in Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, to totally knack his car by driving it into a flood. I now call upon the Reverend Farage to lead us in a communal rendition of "Britannia Rules the Waves".




* not Englishwomen, they are not that daft....


but we have to remember that in Nov 2012 a driver of a 4x4 lost his life driving through a flood, so it is not always a good idea if you are not used to it ...

Anyway I always use my own guidelines for driving in floodwater
-if I can't see the other side, I'm not going in.
-if I can't see how deep it is, walk in, also applies for 1) above.
-if I don't get wet feet in my wellies, my car can wade it , I've not got a snorkel...
Axle depth maximum, slowly...

SteNova said:

the other thing is... in my pic if you were coming out of the closed road you had a grey non reflective sign facing you next to a bright cone... I wonder how many people almost hit it at night

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I take it something was removed from between them 2 cones, surely they wouldn't have made it so inviting like that?

that's exactly how it was, the road wasn't blocked in anyway further on, they just didn't want any disaster tourists so closed loads of roads to funnel everyone away from the area

Funny deadpan comment by the AA on the TV recently along the lines of "we actually rescue a lot of 4x4 drivers in these conditions who think their vehicles are totally amphibious".

Rattlegun said:

Funny deadpan comment by the AA on the TV recently along the lines of "we actually rescue a lot of 4x4 drivers in these conditions who think their vehicles are totally amphibious".

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What??? i dont get it??


































They are aint they??

Rattlegun said:

Funny deadpan comment by the AA on the TV recently along the lines of "we actually rescue a lot of 4x4 drivers in these conditions who think their vehicles are totally amphibious".

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but mine is?

Dippypud said:

Some councils like Cambridgeshire try to keep out even the 4x4 troop ...

but, no matter how much you block the road though it wont work, most have webbed fingers and toes, and some have gills ...

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That is a couple of miles from me - last year they had plastic barriers filled with water and someone took a drill to them so they could be moved which is why they moved to concrete this year.

It is very frustrating as the council closes it at a drop of a hat even when the water is not even high enough to cover the entire road - a couple of cm at best - this causes traffic chaos as it takes them a week to take the barriers down even when the road is completely dry.

after the snow goes, it takes the councils (two of them) months to move the road closed signs so they usually get chucked to the side of the road.

SteNova said:

but mine is?

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He dint mean you :crazy_driver:

they dont know you wasnt down it to gain entrance to something. unless they read this thread but doubt they would bother

nrgserv said:

curious as to what area this 'uns in

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It's near Brighouse, it's only a little un.

Discovery2TD5 said:

It's near Brighouse, it's only a little un.

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cheers, next to wiley's accessories, or whatever its called?

AliV said:

That is a couple of miles from me - last year they had plastic barriers filled with water and someone took a drill to them so they could be moved which is why they moved to concrete this year.

It is very frustrating as the council closes it at a drop of a hat even when the water is not even high enough to cover the entire road - a couple of cm at best - this causes traffic chaos as it takes them a week to take the barriers down even when the road is completely dry.

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I suppose we're lucky that they don't charge extra for sandbags in the vulnerable tidal type areas ...

or get the Army in to help ...

Chapter 2
SECTION VI – FUNDING ARRANGEMENTS FOR MILITARY AID TO THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES Section 6

" MACA activity is, with a few specific
exceptions, not funded within the Ministry of Defence (MOD) budget and is,
therefore, conducted on a repayment basis"

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploa...ment_data/file/61965/defenceconrtibution1.pdf

nrgserv said:

cheers, next to wiley's accessories, or whatever its called?

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Don't know Wiley's.

This one, Thornhill Beck Lane.


Don't think it's actually 40 min detour, just felt like that in the series.