Saif Rehman Posted November 8, 2007 Report Posted November 8, 2007 To all those in the affected areas.....................Take Care and Good Luck. Quote
big_kev Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 Its only Anglia....they are used to it. Besides can't see it being that bad not rained much recently rivers are low and should absorb the back flow on the tides. Coincidently.... Flood ......spooky.. :blink: Quote
Saif Rehman Posted November 9, 2007 Author Report Posted November 9, 2007 Apparently it's the most of the east coast and with the high tide at around 7am tomorrow morning coupled with the high winds, its all getting pushed along towards that area (estimated to be around 3m high by the time it hits the British Coast). And the Thames Barrier is being used. It's been on the national news saying that this was a 'biggie'. Quote
mumof4 Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 umm..what weather warning? :blink: edit: just read the news..heck... Quote
big_kev Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 Get your wellies on babe ! Nothing else just your wellies...oops! thinking aloud again. Quote
adrianf. Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 Have you ever noticed that when they predict a disaster on the news or weather it never comes to anything.Dont get me wrong im glad it didnt, but the only time we seem to get a disaster is when they didnt have a bloody clue it was coming. Quote
katman Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 I live in Great Yarmouth and the first I heard of anything was at 16:30 yesterday when my sons nursery told me they might be shut today as they had been iven a flood warning. Whilst I was there the local radio station announced that my daughters school would be closed today. I got home and looked at the maps on the EA website and we appeared to be safe but would have been surrounded by water. I want to get some sandbags for mine and my mums house as hers was in the purple area on the map :blink: After filling the 10 bags for her I decided I would risk it with my house as I was knackered and the Galaxy was looking a bit low at the back !!! I went out at 9pm, two hours AFTER high tide and water was still flowing inland instead of out again and was only 6 inches below the bank. Looked down at the harbour where there is normally a 6-8 ft drop to the river and it was only 2 feet. At midnight I checked again and both levels wer higher still when we were supposedly only 1 hour from low tide. Then they announced on the radio that the A47 and A12 would be closed at 3am making escape impossible. As I drove along the seafront the police were loadign people onto coaches to take them elsewhere. Went home, loaded up the Galaxy and headed off to a Premier Travel Inn in Norwich where we grabbed the last room. Although I was pretty sure my house would be OK, I couldnt be certain and given the areas most likely to be flooded included a substation there was a real possibility of loss of power which would have made life uncomfortable. Thankfully we had a lucky escape from the expected floods. Luckily the wind changed direction and the surge tide wasnt as high as expected. Only minor flooding occured on the Quay and the beach although I am glad we went to stay in a hotel for the night. These pictures were taken about 4 hours AFTER High Tide so water levels had already gone down a bit. http://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood1.jpgTwelve hours before this was taken I was standing in the centre of the picture filling sandbags. Now that area of the beach along with quite a bit more is underwater. Normally it is at least 25 meters (75 feet) or more to the sea from that point. http://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood2.jpg Some of the pictures I saw on TV this morning showed the water level with the top of the sea wall and it did come over in places as there is now sand on the grassed areas and road of the seafront. http://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood3.jpg http://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood4.jpg The road at the harbours mouth was underwaterhttp://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood5.jpg but that didnt stop some people who seemed determined to drive through it!!http://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood6.jpg There should be a beach here but it has disappeared under water and the waves are breaking over the sea wallhttp://www.diyha.co.uk/keith/flood/flood7.jpg The Environment Agency Website now shows the "All Clear" but I will be keeping an eye on it during the day as the next hight tide is about 8pm tonight and the rivers are still very full. Quote
sparky Paul Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 Great pics there katman. Apparently the tide was only 8" lower than was expected, but the EA are saying this made all the difference... Living on an east coast tidal river myself, I wouldn't like to see the effect of another couple of feet... :blink: Quote
big_kev Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 I would have like to seen it rise a few more metres....always fancied a house on the coast. Quote
big_kev Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 Have you ever noticed that when they predict a disaster on the news or weather it never comes to anything.Dont get me wrong im glad it didnt, but the only time we seem to get a disaster is when they didnt have a bloody clue it was coming. Yep, scaremongering at its best...... According to my Fisherman buddies the surge was well less than 1 metre way below the 3 metres suggested by the press and government.....although 1 metre is still substantial. Quote
mumof4 Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 Good pics there katman,,,must say its been bloomin cold and windy here today and the sun has been shineing all day. Quote
gregers Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 thing is with these warnings is if they didnt give them and a disaster happened then everyone would be asking questions WHY NO WARNING yes there covering there back sides in this day and age who can blame them,i remember the great storm we had down on the south coast and there were no warnings. Quote
sparky Paul Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 According to my Fisherman buddies the surge was well less than 1 metre way below the 3 metres suggested by the press and government.....although 1 metre is still substantial.Depends where they were... the surge effects are localised and not easy to predict. Walcott on the Norfolk coast seems to have had a fair bashing. EA are saying that the surge measured 2.5m+... but it didn't coincide with high tide as predicted, so things didn't turn out so bad. Quote
big_kev Posted November 9, 2007 Report Posted November 9, 2007 (edited) It seems that the further east you are the higher the effects. Lowestoft did manage a 2m surge at low tide and 1.5m at high tide, this seems to have been the most extreme.Walcott is just up from there and may be lower lying and more prone to being hit. Tidedata below shows Lowestoft being hit... The red is the expected value....sun-moon etc The blue is the actual measured value...difference caused by storm surge is apparent. Edited November 9, 2007 by big_kev Quote
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