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.

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.

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.

What’s the state of the beaches in the area at the moment, I’m off to Devon in a couple of weeks and don’t particulary want to find myself swimming in an oil slick or paddling amongst broken vodka bottles, full one’s would be nice though.
Think I’ll stick to the north coast as a precaution.

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.

😀 The power of a 10x zoom. It was actually in the next field, I was in a layby nearby. Doing some Chinese!

Would that be girl/bloke or takeaway.

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.