The rain fell mainly on the plain. Actually it didn't, it fell all over the forest and then bled from the landscape through a filigree of rivulets, whereupon it engorged the forest streams causing them to burst their band and flood the surrounding environs. It gets much better than this, this is just the beginning, when properly inundated the water extends quiet some distance. This was the whole point of restoring the forests streams to their pre-Victorian courses, to slow the waters transit, holding more water in the forest and creating bog woodland environments. Well, it's working. I've walked this roam for decades and rarely in the past did Red Rise Brook breach it's banks, it had to be extraordinarily wet for weeks and even then it was never as expansive as it regularly is today.
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