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09 November 2007

This is a flooding thread: I have a friend in the severe flood warning zone and can't reach her to find out if she's ok.→[More:]Worried. Probably no reason to be, as there's no indication that anyone has been harmed. But she does live on the seafront. :(

post by: altolinguistic at: 02:42 | 5 comments

I've got the BBC news on now and it says that they don't think it's as bad as they first expected although the tidal surge is expected to affect the Norfolk Broads too.

Where is your friend?

posted by essexjan 09 November | 03:05

Sky News is showing people surfing the tidal surge ...

posted by essexjan 09 November | 03:07

the bottom bit of Suffolk, ej, about halfway between Great Yarmouth and Felixtowe - they're getting the surge later this morning. It does look like it wasn't as bad as they expected, and defences are better than they used to be. It won't be a new Dunwich, anyway.

I'm assuming she heard the forecast and retreated inland.

posted by altolinguistic 09 November | 03:58

There was quite a storm here yesterday, but I heard that Scotland got hit really hard.

posted by chuckdarwin 09 November | 06:13

storm in a teacup - just heard that she's fine. They didn't evacuate her town in the end, though they were thinking of it. The water was only a little lower than it was in the disastrous floods of 1953, so that says something about the strength of defences these days.

posted by altolinguistic 09 November | 09:40

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