2011 Streak 65/365: Walking - 3.72 miles, Time - 1hr 10min, Weather - brighter
This photo shows what happens when the council just gives up.
The Magic Roundabout is a huge roundabout, at the gateway to the town, which is difficult to cross on foot. The main way used to be by an underpass, which was OK as it wasn't too much of a diversion. But no longer - it is now unpassable. As you can see from the photo it is not so much flooded as drowned.
The problem is that it is below the water table and always had to be pumped to keep it dry but apparently they pumps can no longer cope. I don't know why pumps which have worked for 30 years are no longer up to the job and I don't know why Hertfordshire Highways think it now too much bother to maintain a facility for pedestrians. But obviously they are giving it no priority as the underpass has now been closed for at least three months.
If you are able bodied you can still get around but I have no idea how the disabled cope.
So for our current times, with a government wilfully cutting all sorts of services and starving local authorities of money. I offer this photo as a visual metaphor of what can happen when things are abandoned - they revert to nature.
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