Watersnood Engeland

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2007 14:22 schreef andre347 het volgende:
En ik ga volgende week op vakantie naar Engeland:(:')

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Floods Cause More Misery Across Britain
Updated: 20:01, Saturday July 21, 2007

The emergency services are taking the strain tonight as many parts of Britain remain under water.
It is more than 24 hours since storms swept across the country, dumping huge amounts of rain on already saturated ground, leading to widespread flooding in dozens of towns.

Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire and Gloucestershire have been worst hit counties. But other areas have also suffered.

The Prime Minister has praised the emergency services, and insisted no one could have predicted the extent of the deluge.

Gordon Brown said the emergency services and armed forces were doing all they could to help the victims and are doing a "superb" job.

The Environment Agency has issued five flood warnings for the River Avon - people stranded in Stratford-upon-Avon have had to be evacuated by helicopter.

Around 200 people are still in emergency accommodation in Gloucester after being stranded by the flood waters. That figure is down from 2,000.

[bWorcestershire and Herefordshire have been badly hit, with the fire service receiving more than 1,000 calls in the past 24 hours. Lifeboat crews were called in to help with the rescue operation.
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Local officials in Evesham have appealed for volunteers to help fill sandbags to hold back floodwater that forced 800 people from their homes.

Hundreds of families who spent the night in their cars on the M5 should soon be on the move after the motorway finally reopened.

Train passengers were stranded in Oxford and Banbury and flooded residents were moved into council offices.

Seventy homes and offices have been evacuated in Buckingham because of rising waters.

Emergency services in Gloucestershire have confirmed that one month's rain fell in just two hours.

They received 1,600 emergency calls in nine hours - five times the normal amount - and a "major incident" was declared.

Baroness Young, chief executive of the Environment Agency, told Sky News: "These are the sorts of rain falls we experience in the past every 100 years, every 150 years, sometimes every 200 years - they're very extreme."

Across Lincolnshire, minor roads and villages have been blocked off because of the floods. In Louth, flood sirens have sounded, warning people of the rising waters.

Lifeboatmen have been carrying out flood rescue operations in Worcestershire after being called in by the local authorities.

They helped in operations in Droitwich, Kidderminster, Wick, Pershore and Hawford, where many people were trapped on top of caravans.

There are severe delays on the transport network with rail and roads suffering as well as many airports.

Passengers were taken off trains at Oxford and Banbury on Friday night. They were forced to sleep at Cherwell School in north Oxford. And First Great Western are "strongly" advising people to avoid Paddington, Bristol and Oxfordshire stations.

The Environment Agency has issued dozens of flood warnings.

A Coastguard rescue helicopter was called in to help with the evacuation of people in Tewkesbury and Evesham.

RAF helicopters worked through the night to rescue people in the area.

At Heathrow, it is one of the busiest weekends of the year as the school holidays begin, and there are warnings of yet more hold-ups.

Sky weather forecasters say more rain is on the way, adding to concerns for many areas.

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De 142,6 millimeter regen die vrijdag in Worcestershire neerkwam was slechts een beetje vochtigheid vergeleken met de 279 millimeter van 18 juli 1955 in Martinstown, Dorset. De 43 millimeter regen die vrijdag in één uur tijd in het zuidelijke deel van Londen viel was evenmin een record. In juli 1901 viel in één uur tijd meer dan twee keer zo veel, 92 millimeter in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

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The main developments include:

- Parts of Worcestershire are under six feet of water. In Evesham, more than 30 guests and staff are still trapped on the upper floors of the Northwick Hotel

- The Gloucestershire town of Tewkesbury remains cut off - and Severn Trent Water is warning householders in the north of the county water supplies could run out by early on Sunday evening because a treatment plant has been flooded

- Sutton and East Surrey Water has warned 80,000 households and businesses in Sutton to boil tap water before drinking it after the firm discovered rain had leaked into a tank of water which had gone out to customers

- RNLI lifeboats are rescuing people in Gloucester, Tewkesbury and other areas. Some emergency service staff have been working for 48 hours without sleep.

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 02:10 schreef static het volgende:
Was afgelopen week in Dublin en daar heeft het 40 (!) dagen achterelkaar geregend.

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 02:02 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
En het minder leuke is..... de kans op regen voor Z-England de komende dagen blijft onverminderd hoog.
Ik zag aantal overzichts opnames van CNN van een aantal dorpjes.... de vergelijking met New Orleans ligt zeer voor de hand liggend.

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 02:06 schreef Drugshond het volgende:
Dit kaartje zegt ook wel wat
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LATEST: 43,000 homes in Gloucestershire without power after sub-station shuts. More soon.

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Drinking water will be in short supply for about 72 hours in the worst-hit areas of Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury.
The pumping plant at Mythe near Tewkesbury was put out of action by the scale of the flooding.

Emergency crews have also been trying to stop an electricity substation which feeds 500,000 Gloucestershire homes from shutting down.

Instances of panic buying of drinking water have also been reported.

The RAF said the scale of its operation to remove stranded people from their homes was the biggest it had ever undertaken in peacetime.

In an attempt to bolster drinking water supplies, about 600 water tanks have been drafted in with military help while 150,000 homes in Gloucestershire are now without fresh water.

The Rivers Severn and Avon which join in Tewkesbury have burst their banks and flooded much of the town and surrounding area.

Warning signs ignored

Meanwhile, West Mercia police said their rescue operations were being hampered in some cases by flood sight-seers. A number of abandoned cars had also been broken into by thieves.

A spokesman said: "Not only are drivers stopping on the roadside to look at and photograph flood scenes, but some are driving past clear flood warning signs."

He said they were "endangering themselves and their passengers, and possibly causing more work for over-stretched emergency services".

Car owners are being urged to collect their vehicles as soon as possible to avoid opportunist thieves.

At Stroud Hospital doctors have accepted 11 patients from Tewkesbury Hospital.

RNLI crews were in the town centre checking properties for stranded people.

Alan Head, of the RNLI, said his team in Tewkesbury had rescued about 20 people who were caught out by the rising waters.

Gloucester has been put on a severe flood warning with water just 30cm (1ft) short of flood defences.

Nearly 500 people in the dockside area of Gloucester are preparing to leave their homes in preparation for the Severn bursting its banks.