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Anyone seen my home town on the news - welcome to the island of Tewkesbury.............................

We are used to floods, but I've never seen anything like this in 35 years.
 
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Yes, my ex business partner abandoned her car in the town and waded home. her house is near the M5 and is above the flood but she said it was pretty bad-not since 1947 by all accounts

I used to live in Cheltenham so know the area well and always wondered -when travelling down the M5 past Tewkesbury looking at the flooding- why they didn't take advantage of the flooding and build a bloody huge reservoir there so the Severn could drain it's excess into it...

Cheers

Richard
 
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6910638.stm
 
We have seen the like, JULY 10TH 1968 - 8 deaths.
I was driving in it, not the worst part, but pretty bad.
Next day driving around the countryside viewing the aftermath was an unbelievable experience... Cheddar gorge was feet deep in rocks and mud.. Houses flash flooded to the upstairs ceiling.
http://www.riverchew.co.uk/flood_1968.htm

An old piece of film.. no sound... BBC

Just a miserable old fashioned Brit summer !
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Is this weather the sign of things to come - or just what happens every couple of decades? Will it happen every couple of years from now?

It's funny that it never snows in winter these days so something has changed.
 
Britain had its own big waves - 400 years ago.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article408087.ece

Poor old Dickie P could be in the manure if the briny piled up into the English channel...
[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2000/mega_tsunami.shtml]BBC[/url] said:
...Huge landslides and the mega-tsunami that they cause are extremely rare - the last one happened 4,000 years ago on the island of Réunion. The growing concern is that the ideal conditions for just such a landslide - and consequent mega-tsunami - now exist on the island of La Palma in the Canaries. In 1949 the southern volcano on the island erupted. During the eruption an enormous crack appeared across one side of the volcano, as the western half slipped a few metres towards the Atlantic before stopping in its tracks. Although the volcano presents no danger while it is quiescent, scientists believe the western flank will give way completely during some future eruption on the summit of the volcano. In other words, any time in the next few thousand years a huge section of southern La Palma, weighing 500 thousand million tonnes, will fall into the Atlantic ocean.
What will happen when the volcano on La Palma collapses? Scientists predict that it will generate a wave that will be almost inconceivably destructive, far bigger than anything ever witnessed in modern times. It will surge across the entire Atlantic in a matter of hours, engulfing the whole US east coast, sweeping away everything in its path up to 20km inland. Boston would be hit first, followed by New York, then all the way down the coast to Miami and the Caribbean...

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empip said:
An old piece of film.. no sound... BBC

WOW! That's amazing!




















Evesham Runner Beans at 2 and 6...... ;)

Seriously.. Looked grim. Strange how that was July too.
 
Won't know until the small hours if they can save it.If it goes we shall be without power for at least five days. (We are already without water for the next two weeks)
 
ricicle said:
Phew !! (two inches to spare!)
Otherwise they would have isolated our counties 400Kv intake!!

Must be horrible mate. Hope all gets back to normal soon..
 
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