Before & After shots (flood)

IJ was there cool means WB was looking after IJ jobs then.

James

Good Old Rescue Whiskey Bravo, it was a travesty for her to be replaced by Recuse India Juliet down at Portland.

Hopefully the waters should have abated somewhat by now and you are able to start assessing just how bad it was. Look on the the bright side though, at least you are alive.

I have various shots but haven’t got around to uploading them. They wouldn’t mean much to you anyway.

However on an aviation theme I saw this in the BBC website. Louise Beale by the vehicle used and surname must be related to Nigel Beale who is the UK Rotax engine dealer located in the next village along from me. They originally started up selling hovercraft fitted with Rotax before moving into light aircraft.

Louise Beale from Fenny Compton: “We had to collect our children from school in our racing hovercraft, as all the roads into and out of the village were blocked.”

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/6910533.stm

Thanks Pete and Moogy 😎 I found that the Sea King was Rescue 128 based at E Flight, 202 Squadron at Leconfield near Hull and was the sole remaining RAF Sea King providing search and rescue cover at Gloucester Airport. Monday july 23. More here http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/index.cfm?storyid=F39517C7-1143-EC82-2EEF46D0AE0E8C53

Nice and hot here 😀
James

According to BBC East last night Wattisham supplied a Sea King on Monday and possibly yesterday, the Essex fire brigade also turned up with inflatables.

Did any of you see that scumbag taking more than his allowed water ration on the news last night, I liked the way he pretended to not understand English when the reporter chased after him, people like him don’t do members of their ethnic groups, already under pressure, much good do they.
What cracked me up was that he actually turned nasty when confronted, they should have taken ALL the water off him and made the peace of filth drink off the road, at least they showed the numberplate of his 4×4, neighbours take note.

Michael

Sorry you have been hit bad, that is a nightmare, keep us updated on events.

All ok here, it is just a case of us watching the river rise above the garden then reside again, which it did on the night, James I think I am going to have to invest in a boat yes 😉
I was hoping some trout would have got stuck my side of the chain link fence but it wasn’t to be lol.

I work at Gloucestershire airport, the seakings are coming & going all day, they have now set up a 20nm exclusion zone around Tewksbury which prevents me from flying over it. I forgot to take my camera with me on Sunday, I flew over the whole area affected, it is a shock to the system, and the landscape is totally covered making navigation from the air near impossible. To see Upton On Severn totally cut off was a shock, also into Worcester, to see the race course & my beloved Worcestershire County Cricket Club under water yet again was also a shock.
I was up in the circuit at Gloucester today and it did look “slightly” better, there is a small shape appearing to the River Severn now, let’s hope it keeps residing at a good rate

Dean

We’re back to normal now. Mind you, we’re still lacking a downstairs at the moment. 🙁

Lee on Solent were involved.

IJ was there cool means WB was looking after IJ jobs then.

James

So thats why there was a problem with the power supply, the pykies were already on to the sub station themselves, ‘Wanna buy a big fuse sor’.
Any Sea King parts advertised on E-bay yet, or being touted with ‘lucky white heather’.
Trouble is, the polution problem will have been magnified hugely if their caravans have been washed away and the contents added to the water.

Sorry, what confused me was that the HQ controlling the rescue was at Kinloss, apart from helicopters from Leconfield, Chivenor and Lee on Solent were involved.

Thanks Pete and Moogy 😎 I found that the Sea King was Rescue 128 based at E Flight, 202 Squadron at Leconfield near Hull and was the sole remaining RAF Sea King providing search and rescue cover at Gloucester Airport. Monday july 23. More here http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/index.cfm?storyid=F39517C7-1143-EC82-2EEF46D0AE0E8C53

Nice and hot here 😀
James

I thought the one that was airlifting the gippos was Yorkshire/Lincolnshire based.

(Sorry, not too ‘up’ on eggbeater bases)

Moggy

Thats a nice gardern with a little River running by it:rolleyes: Ever thought off buying a boat Deano:D are you still flooded Michael and Ivan?

BTW what sqn is the RAF Sea King that you see on the news?

All the best

James

I heard that the Sea King was from Scotland, the crews must have been knackered.
Looks like Oxford will get it now.
A few years ago, the village I lived in at the time was stuffed by floods, the reason, the river authorities hadn’t cleared out the streams, they were choked up with vegetation and various items of rubbish.
It took people to have their homes ruined before they did anything about it, there hasn’t been a problem since, fortunately in this place the river is kept clear, lets hope it remains that way as the town sewage works is just downstream, and within a flood plain, 35,000 peoples worth of untreated crap going into the Blackwater doesn’t bear thinking about.
All the best to you lot in the danger zone, I’ve got bloody sunshine again.

Here is my back garden in May this year (one on the left)

Thats a nice gardern with a little River running by it:rolleyes: Ever thought off buying a boat Deano:D are you still flooded Michael and Ivan?

BTW what sqn is the RAF Sea King that you see on the news?

All the best

James

I wonder if a state of emergency will be declared if it gets worse, or is that going too far?

I think it has to start lapping over the doorsteps of 10 Downing Street before that happens ? Mind you, having checked the latest forecast for London…? 😮

Its an awful sight. My sympathies to all affected.

I wonder if a state of emergency will be declared if it gets worse, or is that going too far?

I think we can almost guarantee that a certain budget airline boss won’t miss a beat and will make up some advertising campaign that uses the flooding to his advantage, lol..

Hows it going with you lot, we keep looking at the news programmes and getting worried, any reports from those at the nasty end of events.
About 10 years ago we hired a canal boat and went on the ring, Droitwich, Worcester, Severn to Tewkesbury, Tewks to Stratford, then up to Brum and those infinite locks back to Droitwich.
Even then, in calm Easter weather, and we are an experienced crew, I’m a registered narrow boat captain, sailing on the Severn in a bloody plagiarised 70ft barge was hairy stuff, whats happened to all those families who have hired boats and got stuck in this, ok, it’s not like having your house blown away, or your business wrecked, but imagine being stuck with a load of screaming kids in god knows where, where does the river and the field come together.
Any more experiences, or have you lost power.
What a bloody carry on.

One more shot from me. Some of you may recognise this from Sky News…

An eatate agent might describe that as a decorative water feature Deano ! Have you considered keeping ducks ??? 😮

Or giving canoeing lessons?
Seriously though very sorry for you. Mind you by the May shots it looked like the lawn needed the water, maybe just not quite so much of it in one go eh?

…bad idea to keep goldfish down there HAHA, all it does is deposit alot of crap…

Shouldn’t that have been carp?;)

My sympathies are with all those affected including Deano. At least it looks like having solid floors has minimised the extent of the damage but that is probably small compensation.

I should imagine that many are now considering the wisdom of spending large sums, and depleting tropical forrests of hardwoods, to fit out with laminate flooring.

I recall the wood blocks of the flooring in accomodation blocks at Yeovilton collecting around my cabin door one morning as I splashed my feet out of bed into about six inches of unexpected water, that was the summer of 68.

During that same summer a mess car treasure hunt around the Somerset countryside developed unexpectedly when a terrific storm broke. A bridge on the A37 north of Shepton Mallet (over the R. Chew at Pensford IIRC) was brought down and the roads downhill into Yeovil became a watercourse as the water streamed off fields down banks either side.

It was well into the early hours of the morning before we had news of all those who had gone out on the hunt.

My sympathies to all affected, it must be terrible to go through that.
I’ve only ever lived in one house that came near to being flooded, it was a frightening thing to watch the water creeping across he fields towards us but in the end that was as far as it got.
A few years ago, after I’d left, they weren’t so lucky, it went through the house in minutes and ruined everything.
I only live a few yards from the River Blackwater, but it’s about 10m lower than us and quite frankly it was months ago when it was anywhere near the top of the bank. We seem to be just about the driest place in the country at the moment, I was bemused to be driving along the A120 in glorious sunshine on friday afternoon when Sally Traffic anounced on the radio that the road was at a standstill due to adverse weather conditions, I think not.
While everyone was suffering yesterday, and I was checking up on friends and family around the UK, I was outside on the lounger in my swimming trunks, reading Harry Potter and enjoying the sunshine till early evening, and the weather is the same today, I would suggest you move to Braintree folks.
Hope you all get sorted quickly, but thats the problem isn’t it, too much damage, too many insurance claims to process, and probably not enough builders to get stuck in, how do you cope.

😮
Like I said, I’m counting my blessings.
Can’t begin to think what it must be like.
Hope you manage to get things sorted quickly.

Best wishes,
Ivan