Wednesday I set off for work, got to the road through the village and found
it closed and lots of police everywhere. Turns out a water main had burst
and flooded the road with 8 inches of water. when they came to fix it, they
found it has been leaking for some time and had undermined the road.

Now the problem is, there is only one road through the village [ and a
narrow footbridge over the A14]. Travel east and you get to Felixstowe and
the coast, travel west and you get to Ipswich.

Due to the closure, I had to go west rather than east, and my 3 mile, less
than 10 minutes trip to work turned into a 7 mile trip to the outskirts of
Ipswich and back and took nearly 30 minutes!

Today they have installed traffic lights, so almost back to normal on day 3.
Can't wait to see what next week will bring.

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Kathy

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:58:28 -0000, Kathy wrote:

Due to the closure, I had to go west rather than east, and my 3 mile,
less than 10 minutes trip to work turned into a 7 mile trip to the
outskirts of Ipswich and back and took nearly 30 minutes!

Meh, if you get caught the wrong side of hill here when the roads get
closed by snow (like most where last night) you'd be looking at anything
from 30 extra miles and a hour or 100+ miles and a couple of hours
depending on whcih hill you where behind...

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Cheers
Dave.

On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:58:28 +0000, Kathy wrote:

Wednesday I set off for work, got to the road through the village and
found it closed and lots of police everywhere. Turns out a water main
had burst and flooded the road with 8 inches of water. when they came
to fix it, they found it has been leaking for some time and had
undermined the road.

Now the problem is, there is only one road through the village [ and a
narrow footbridge over the A14]. Travel east and you get to Felixstowe
and the coast, travel west and you get to Ipswich.

Due to the closure, I had to go west rather than east, and my 3 mile,
less than 10 minutes trip to work turned into a 7 mile trip to the
outskirts of Ipswich and back and took nearly 30 minutes!

Today they have installed traffic lights, so almost back to normal on
day 3. Can't wait to see what next week will bring.

Sounds like the Trimleys near the mushroom farm. :-)

Hadn't realised there were problems.

Cheers

Dave R



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Pan in Vista on second Vista PC.

"David.WE.Roberts" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:58:28 +0000, Kathy wrote:

Wednesday I set off for work, got to the road through the village and
found it closed and lots of police everywhere. Turns out a water main
had burst and flooded the road with 8 inches of water. when they came
to fix it, they found it has been leaking for some time and had
undermined the road.

Now the problem is, there is only one road through the village [ and a
narrow footbridge over the A14]. Travel east and you get to Felixstowe
and the coast, travel west and you get to Ipswich.

Due to the closure, I had to go west rather than east, and my 3 mile,
less than 10 minutes trip to work turned into a 7 mile trip to the
outskirts of Ipswich and back and took nearly 30 minutes!

Today they have installed traffic lights, so almost back to normal on
day 3. Can't wait to see what next week will bring.

Sounds like the Trimleys near the mushroom farm. :-)

Hadn't realised there were problems.

Cheers

Dave R



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Got it in one!

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Kathy