East Coast Flood Warnings

[guest1957]

https://flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk

 

Some very worrying warnings along the east coast. Hopefully it won't come off, but be prepared if affected.

[Konnie]

Just looked a bit of **** covering I think they don't want to under do it, the tides are not the biggest.

[wandringstar]

weather reporting has become a big hype, its the same in the states, everything is exaggerated, I think it is because they are terrified to underestimate it.

 

Yesterday, mass coverage was given to a bit of sleet, its winter, there is meant to be cold icy weather.

 

The rain of 2013 however, was a time when the weather was dramatic.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

Interesting to see Essex Police have initiated an evacuation plan for Jaywick.

 

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/jaywick_prepares_to_evacuate_after_severe_flood_warnings_in_essex_1_4847541

[Pistol p]

Jaywick. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious....

[Dunkield]

Interesting to see Essex Police have initiated an evacuation plan for Jaywick.

 

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/jaywick_prepares_to_evacuate_after_severe_flood_warnings_in_essex_1_4847541

 

Probably just a ruse to see who is actually living there

[norfolk dumpling]

Biggest worry for if they evacuate is looting - what does this tell you about Essex?

For Jaywick - I thought I had typed!

[Benthejockey]

I have to agree with wandringstar. It's winter the weather is supposed to be bad. A couple of years back when the Somerset levels flooded it was very sad BUT you live on a flood plain chances are at some point you're going to get wet. My parents live right on the banks of the Severn and although it hasn't been in the house since 2000 there's the threat every winter. The house has been there since the 1700's. All around floods in spectacular fashion but we just get on with it. We're lucky if Lyn Bowles even mentions the main road is closed when it's under 4ft of water. The same applies in the summer when they give out the heat warnings, I know sunshine is rare in this country but you'd think that surely people would understand that August might get a tad sweaty!

[wandringstar]

the forecast was such, that a lot of children in my village were disappointed, they really thought that magical white blanket, was coming, the talk of sledges now quiet.

 

the new York storm that was supposed to be Armageddon last year, started out at top hurricane grade, and was a storm that blew down trees and was very nasty weather,

 

you know its a hype, once you hear the term 'severe weather event'.

[marsh man]

We are in a high risk flood area and the danger time was around 10am this morning , I live close to the river and I have seen higher tides on a normal day when the moon is full.

 

If we are going to be flooded, we need 7 or 8 foot of water coming up the river in the next hour or so and there is no way this is going to happen .

 

Now the wind isn't as strong as predicted and is North / West instead of the damaging North / East I think we have got away with it although things can change by the hour , but I will be staying in my house and hopefully every one along the East coast will end up be flood free . GOOD LUCK. to all the people who might be in danger of the current bad weather.

[wandringstar]

overbuilding, in a country that is full up, stops natural drainage, crackpot weirdy beard pressure groups, that like to stop dredging because a fish might get injured, these contribute massively towards flooding, weather is as it was in the book of genesis.

[Benthejockey]

The environment agency or natural Wales or whatever name they're using this month no longer maintain the argaes here during the summer months. If I was more cynical I'd say they are going to slow the argaes to degrade to a point where little old us in the countryside take the brunt of the water and are used as a holding area for the over spill until the bulge has passed through Shrewsbury. They don't dredge the rivers or do any real maintenance to the banks along the upper severn or vyrnwy and as a result every winter the banks subside and the river silts up more. Anyway the rivers are a different story to the bad weather!

[wascal]

As said previously its mostly ***** covering.

 

because of the chinook crash in 94 , aviation forecasts now have "isolated hill fog" on them just in case

[guest1957]

overbuilding, in a country that is full up, stops natural drainage, crackpot weirdy beard pressure groups, that like to stop dredging because a fish might get injured, these contribute massively towards flooding, weather is as it was in the book of genesis.

The type of flooding I am drawing people's attention to here is entirely unrelated. The potential is for storm surge flooding, so nothing to do with drainage of dredging.

 

Edit to say that the peak risk time is high tide this evening.

Edited January 13, 2017 by guest1957

[wandringstar]

we are being dictated to by a tiny minority of nutters/wreckers, people who in the past were only allowed on the fringes, who have now been allowed to become mainstream.

 

When the basics of life stop, society stops.

 

20 percent of the storm drains in my village are blocked solid with soil debris, they need a few hours on each one to maintain the drainage, I have one that runs under my property and into the stream at the back, it became blocked last year and the water was getting pretty high in a torrential downpour, I spent ages trying to get someone out from the council, in the end I hired a private company who back jetted it and took out six of those large builders rubble type containers worth of debris, its perfect now, but probably hadn't been done since the 1960s when it was built.

The type of flooding I am drawing people's attention to here is entirely unrelated. The potential is for storm surge flooding, so nothing to do with drainage of dredging.

Edit to say that the peak risk time is high tide this evening.

 

 

ok, sorry, just thought it was about weather/flooding in general.

[Lord Geordie]

Hope our forum members manage to stay dry!

 

I am lucky here being so high above both sea AND river level. But in ignorance keep forgetting there are people right on the waters edge so to speak.

Edited January 13, 2017 by Lord Geordie

[islandgun]

Jaywick. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious....

 

Jeez. !!! good luck everyone

Edited January 13, 2017 by islandgun

[marsh man]

The type of flooding I am drawing people's attention to here is entirely unrelated. The potential is for storm surge flooding, so nothing to do with drainage of dredging.

 

Edit to say that the peak risk time is high tide this evening.

I agree , this evenings tide is more of a concern than this morning one , ( which have now passed with no sign of damage ) , although the difference with todays tidal surge and the one we had in 2013 was the wind was a lot stronger then which held the mornings tide up, which was then followed by another hide tide on top of that one , whereas today the water is already leaving the river Yare and us in Yarmouth should hopefully stay dry.

[guest1957]

I agree , this evenings tide is more of a concern than this morning one , ( which have now passed with no sign of damage ) , although the difference with todays tidal surge and the one we had in 2013 was the wind was a lot stronger then which held the mornings tide up, which was then followed by another hide tide on top of that one , whereas today the water is already leaving the river Yare and us in Yarmouth should hopefully stay dry.

Fingers crossed. There's enough lines marked on walls on the east coast.

[TaxiDriver]

Jaywick = World of Sheds meets Benefit Britain and they all marry their family members

Last time the area seriously flooded.......it caused 1000's of £'s worth of improvements

[Reeceknight]

Lads at my station got called out to jaywick in the rescue pump along with most other local stations