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.

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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.

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350,000 to lose water supply. All homes in Gloucester and Cheltenham will lose their water supply within 15 hours because of the floods, Severn Trent Water says.

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 21:24 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
Maaruhh, komen die regenbuien nu onze kant op?

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 21:29 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 21:26 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Nee... dat is het 'probleem'... ze blijven daar hangen... Ze lijken wel rondjes te draaien boven het eiland

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 21:29 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 09:28 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:
Hoe zit 't eik met het centrum van Londen? In het zuiden van Londen is wel veel gevallen, maar heeft 't centrum van Londen ook met overstromingen te kampen? Daar loopt ook een bepaald geen kleine rivier, zeg maar ....

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 23:49 schreef Mike.Strutter het volgende:
Ik heb pas op de lokale engelse TV er nog wat van gezien, maar het is echt gigantisch daar en ook weinig hoop op echte verbetering.

Ik vraag me wel altijd af wat er met de metro's gebeurd. Stroomt daar niet al het water naartoe in een stad als London bijvoorbeeld

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Floods Strike Britain; Thames Rising
Bron : Forbes.com

LONDON -

Emergency workers rescued trapped people Monday as rising water swallowed large swaths of central Britain, the worst flooding in the country in 60 years. Officials said the western section of the rain-swollen River Thames was on the verge of bursting its banks.

Roads and parking lots were submerged, trains suspended, buses canceled. Hundreds of thousands of people were left without electricity or drinking water, and farmers saw their summer crops destroyed.

Torrential rains have plagued Britain for a month - nearly 5 inches fell in some areas on Friday alone - and more downpours were predicted.

"This emergency is far from over and further flooding is extremely likely," Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said.

The Thames water levels in Oxford were expected to peak about midnight. Flood defenses in the center of the town - home to the renowned 800-year-old university - were holding so far.

The worst-hit areas Monday were farther west, where cars were submerged and streets turned into canals. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes and businesses.

The Ministry of Defense said military helicopters rescued more than 120 people from the rising floodwaters, including 87 people trapped in a trailer park in Gloucestershire county, central England.

Among those evacuated in the Oxford area were 50 elderly residents of a retirement community.

"People look at me and say I look fine, but inside I'm all churned up," said Sylvia Williams, a 69-year-old widow who was moved to a stadium shelter that was stocked with blankets, food and bedding for up to 1,500 people.

Among the hardest hit areas was the medieval market town of Tewkesbury, 110 miles northwest of London, where the cathedral and blocks of nearby houses stood like an atoll in a vast stretch of muddy watervast stretch of muddy water that was 5 feet deep in places.

"It was just devastation - total chaos, cars floating past, rubbish, all kinds," said John King, a 68-year-old retired firefighter from Tewkesbury. "You just can't stop water of that power.

He said he saw goldfish swimming in his driveway.

The last time Britain saw similar flooding was in 1947, according to the Environment Agency. No deaths or serious injuries have been reported in the current flooding.

The Severn Trent Water company said at least 350,000 homes in Gloucestershire, in western England, were without water after flooding shut down a water treatment plant.

Residents in flooded areas lined up for free water at grocery stores or waited for supplies from water trucks.

The Ministry of Defense said water was being cleared after flooding at a nuclear weapons-manufacturing site at Burghfield, about 40 miles west of London. Officials said there was no risk of a radiation leak.

London itself was not affected. The city is protected from flooding in the east by the Thames Barrier, the world's largest moveable flood defense, which closes to seal off part of the upper Thames from the sea.

To the west, London is protected by several flood defense measures including the Jubilee River, a 7-mile-long diversion channel. The western section of the Thames that officials worried about lies 80 miles from the capital.

Meteorologists said water levels were expected to peak Tuesday or Wednesday.

During a tour of the Gloucestershire region, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced increased funding for flood and coastal defenses across the country.

"It is pretty clear that some of the 19th-century structures and infrastructure and where they were sited is something we will have to review," said Brown, who succeeded Tony Blair less than a month ago. Much of Britain's infrastructure dates to Victorian times.

Insurance companies said the damage from flooding in June and July could reach hundreds of millions of dollars.

The British weather was consistent with conditions caused by the La Nina weather system, which is caused by cooling ocean waters and leads to extreme weather, Britain's Meteorology Office said. However, scientists said there was no clear explanation for the unusually long spell of wet weather.

"The situation is looking critical at the moment. Unfortunately the misery is set to continue," said Environment Agency spokesman Joe Giacomelli.

Climate change may be culprit, said Tim Evans of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environment Management, adding that the situation matched predictions of how global warning would affect Britain.

Britain had one of its hottest and driest summers on record last year.

"What we now think of as extreme events will occur more often than in the past, and the extremes will get more extreme," Evans said.

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 12:29 schreef sander89 het volgende:
Lijkt me dat dit in Nederland niet zo snel gebeurt dat er 1 meter water staat in je huis, misschien kan Nederland daar nu weer wat geld verdienen zo dat dit niet nog een keer kan gebeuren.
Of valt er tegen zo erge regen val niks te doen?

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 09:22 schreef Nee het volgende:
Maar er is geen klimaatverandering.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 09:48 schreef Nee het volgende:
Hmmja, ik vind het maar extreem worden de laatste tijd, zal wel aan mij liggen.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:07 schreef Evil_Jur het volgende:

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Denk het, alsof er nog nooit wateroverlast is geweest zeg.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:40 schreef detulp050 het volgende:
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150.000 hebben geen water?

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:41 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:46 schreef Frutsel het volgende:

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Volgens wikipedia heeft Engeland ca 50.3 miljoen inwoners...
en 150.000 hebben geen water Gezeik zeg

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 09:22 schreef Nee het volgende:
Maar er is geen klimaatverandering.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:54 schreef INViCTuS het volgende:
Ik vind dus dat daar niet alles goed voor elkaar is ondanks dat de situatie hier anders zal zijn.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:59 schreef yvonne het volgende:

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Ik ga gewoon even vloeken in de kerk,
het is idd aangetoond dat er extremere regenval voor komt en voor gaat komen in de ietwat noordelijke landen, ook dat de zuidelijke landen drogere periodes tegemoet gaan.

Maaaaaaaaar! Wat iedereen hier "oh het klimaat is veranderd, we gaan er aan" even vergeet, is dat wat NU gaande is in Engeland, deels menselijk toedoen is.
Uiteraard kun je aan de regen weinig veranderen, maar jaren en jarenlang de natuurlijke uiterwaarden bebouwen met woningen, niets aan een fatsoenlijke riolering doen is de Goden verzoeken, water en hoe het zich gaat gedragen is redelijk te voorspellen in diverse modellen.
Ook Nederland heeft weinig geleerd van het laatste grote verzuipen in Limburg en omstreken, óók de uiterwaarden, nee, we blijven gewoon doorbouwen, want ach, eens in de honderd jaar...

Bedenk dat een land als Engeland iedere keer met kou, regen, storm behoorlijke schade oploopt, bedenk ook dat ze daar bij lange na niet zo ver zijn als hier.

En bekijk dit eens:
http://www.novatv.nl/index.cfm?ln=nl&fuseaction=videoaudio.details&reportage_id=5332&selectArchiveDay=2

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 22:04 schreef Klonk het volgende:
Ik heb net ff naar het Engelse nieuws zitten kijken en die rare britten zijn zo relaxed, zo van tja er staat wat water, maar het wordt wel weer een keer droog en gaan vervolgens bij wijze van spreke met lieslaarzen een pintje in de kroeg drinken....

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 12:02 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Wat raar dat er nog niemand is die schreeuwt dat het Al Qaida was

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 12:02 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Wat raar dat er nog niemand is die schreeuwt dat het Al Qaida was

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 11:28 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:
'Hamster' van Top Gear rent 25 km



Hamster .

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 12:25 schreef DemonRage het volgende:

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Denk dat Top Gear nu wel een programma over speedboten kan gaan presenteren met al dat water.

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De Britse autoriteiten zijn er in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag in geslaagd een onderstation te repareren waardoor 48.000 mensen in de overstroomde gebieden in Gloustershire weer elektriciteit hebben.

Dat meldde de BBC dinsdag. Maar nog steeds zitten zeker 350.000 huishoudens zonder drinkwater en 50.000 zonder stroom.

Ook slaagden hulpdiensten erin het onderstation in Walham, eveneens in Gloucester, te beschermen tegen het wassende water. Als dit station was ondergelopen zouden een kwart miljoen mensen zonder elektriciteit en water komen te zitten. Volgens de autoriteiten kan het nog zeven dagen duren voor iedereen weer water heeft.

De politie meldt dat het waterpeil in het zwaar getroffen Gloucestershire intussen langzaam daalt. Intussen piekte het peil van de Theems delen van Oxfordshire zonder voor overlast te zorgen. Later bereikt de Theems zijn hoogste niveau in de historische universiteitsstad Oxford. In Berkshire bereikt de Theems woensdag zijn hoogtepunt.

Het Milieu Agentschap heeft zeven overstromingswaarschuwingen uitgedaan. Drie voor de rivier Severn, twee voor de Theems, een voor de Great Ouse in Bedfordshire en een voor de Ock in Oxfordshire.

Meteorologen

Meteorologen voorspellen voor later in de week opnieuw veel regen. De Britse Vereniging van Verzekeraars schat dat de schade van de overstromingen in juni en juli kan oplopen tot 2 miljard pond (bijna 3 miljard euro).

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Arcadis wil helpen in overstromingsgebied

Bron : Nieuws

(Novum/Betten) - Arcadis kijkt naar mogelijkheden voor eventuele 'defensieve' werkzaamheden in het Verenigd Koninkrijk, naar aanleiding van de overstromingen daar. Dat stelt een woordvoeder van de organisatie dinsdag. "Er ligt op dit moment echter nog geen concreet actieplan klaar."

Het Verenigd Koninkrijk werd de afgelopen week getroffen door zware regenval, waarna een groot gebied onder water kwam te staan; volgens de overheid de ernstigste overstroming in ongeveer 60 jaar. Delen van Worcestershire, Gloucestershire en Warwickshire zijn overstroomd, verzekeraars schatten de schade op 'miljarden' euro's.

Arcadis is geen onbekende met zogenoemde defensieve werkzaamheden na overstromingen. Zo verwierf het advies- en ingenieursbedrijf het afgelopen jaar grote contracten voor de bescherming van het Amerikaanse New Orleans tegen overstromingen. Deze stad werd eerder fors getroffen door de orkaan Katrina.

"Onze Nederlandse waterspecialisten nemen in een later stadium contact op met onze werknemers in Engeland. Zij hebben geen specifieke waterkennis en zullen door hen worden bijgestaan", aldus de zegsvrouw. "Maar op dit moment zijn we nog nergens bij betrokken, ze hebben daar nu hun handen vol."

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Breaking News

Babies Die After Flood Rescue
Updated: 12:09, Tuesday July 24, 2007

Premature twin babies who were rescued from floods by RAF helicopters have died in hospital.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 10:29 schreef Nee het volgende:

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O jawel, maar het valt me alleen op dat het steeds extremer wordt, maar nogmaals, het zal wel aan mij liggen, optische illusies enzo hihihi.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 14:11 schreef Evil_Jur het volgende:

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Misschien volgde je het weer 15 jaar geleden gewoon te weinig, vooral omdat je een klein snotneusje was, en heb je niet zo goed door dat je er nu meer op let.

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 15:03 schreef Basp1 het volgende:
Zijn er ook ergens webcams van london te vinden dat we de thames kunnen zien?

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 15:13 schreef Fredo55 het volgende:

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Hier een webcam bij de Thames gemaakt volgens mij,er staan ook heel wat mensjes naar het
water te kijken.
http://www.camvista.com/england/london/bigben.php3

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 16:06 schreef Bigfoot414 het volgende:
Beetje raar, wateroverlast en dan zonder water zitten

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 15:51 schreef Fredo55 het volgende:
Hier een betere,Thames staat erg hoog,als ik het zo ziet.
Er staat ook code rood bij:
http://www.maidenheadrc.org.uk/webcam/javacam.htm

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 16:15 schreef Evil_Jur het volgende:

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Riolen e.d. stromen over in drinkwater reservoirs, dus dan kan je dat water niet meer naar huizen gaan pompen.

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Residents of flood-hit areas have been told not to panic as a massive emergency operation is launched to get clean water to those left stranded.
Emergency services are battling to deliver supplies to the 350,000 people across Gloucestershire who have been without running water since Sunday.

Police urged people to stay calm, as there would be enough for everyone.

Waters have receded in western England, but homeowners near the River Thames in Berkshire are braced for more floods.

Emergency services warned the crisis was not over, with thousands of homes still without running water and further flooding expected in southern England.

There are still six severe flood warnings still in place, and water levels have yet to peak in the Pangbourne, Purley on Thames and Reading areas of Berkshire.

Waters move east

Forecasters have warned more showers are expected across England throughout the week, with heavy rainfall predicted for Thursday.

The Environment Agency said the rainfall could result in water levels rising yet again, causing more misery for homes and businesses.

On Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Gordon Brown chaired a meeting of the emergency Cobra committee where the possibility of the floods spreading to London was discussed, as well as different contingency plans for the waters moving east.

A further £10m will be added to the current £14m recovery fund available to local authorities to help with the aftermath of the crisis, the Environment Secretary Hilary Benn said.

In Gloucestershire, as many as 900 bowsers - mobile water dispensers - will be mobilised by Wednesday morning to provide essential supplies.

The Army is also delivering three million bottles of water a day, distributed from Cheltenham Racecourse.

Chief executive of Gloucestershire County Council Peter Bungard said: "I'm really, really worried, 350,000 people is hard to imagine, and amongst those are very vulnerable people."

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Op maandag 23 juli 2007 21:29 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 15:51 schreef Fredo55 het volgende:
Hier een betere,Thames staat erg hoog,als ik het zo ziet.
Er staat ook code rood bij:
http://www.maidenheadrc.org.uk/webcam/javacam.htm

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Op dinsdag 24 juli 2007 18:25 schreef Dulk het volgende:

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stond het water net ook al over de kade heen ?

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Op donderdag 26 juli 2007 10:01 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:
Wordt een spannende dag daar. Weer genoeg regen voorspeld, dus plekken die al zwak waren zullen nu wel helemaal breken .... .

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Op donderdag 26 juli 2007 10:51 schreef Frutsel het volgende:
Hele weekend wordt volgens mij nog kritiek daar

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Zware regen in Engeland
22 juli 2007 - De zomer is in Engeland dit jaar uitzonderlijk nat begonnen en voorlopig is het eind van de natte tijd nog niet in zicht. Juni 2007 was met 134,5 mm gemiddeld over het land de natste sinds 1914. Op 25 juni viel in Filingades in North Yorkshire 103 mm in 24 uur.

Nat klimaat
De Britse eilanden zijn berucht om de regen, maar dat geldt niet voor het hele land. Zo valt er in Endinburgh jaarlijks 668 mm, dat is 100 mm minder dan onze jaarsom. Sommige plaatsen in Schotland krijgen niet meer dan 600 mm in een jaar. Het droogst is St. Osyth (Essex) met een jaarsom van 513 mm. Nat is het vooral in de bergen in het westen, zeker in het najaar. Maandhoeveelheden van 200 tot 300 mm zijn geen uitzondering. Het record is 1435 mm in oktober 1909 in llyn Llydaw (Snowdonia). Styhead in het Lake district is de natste plaats met gemiddeld 4306 mm in een jaar. Het record staat op naam van Sprinkling Tarn met 6527 mm in 1954.

Klimaatverandering
De overvloedige regen van de laatste jaren past in het beeld van een warmer klimaat. Vooral de laatste decennia is het natter geworden, ook in ons land. De toename hangt samen met het warmere klimaat: op gematigde breedten is de temperatuur vooral in de winter flink gestegen. Een warmere atmosfeer kan meer vocht bevatten en leidt tot meer neerslag . Onderzoek levert steeds meer aanwijzingen dat de opwarming, vooral (circa 3% meer neerslag per graad warmer) in de laatste tientallen jaren, mede te wijten is aan menselijke invloed, maar harde bewijzen zijn daar nog niet voor.

Ook gaat het te ver om een enkel nat seizoen, zoals Engeland nu beleeft zonder meer toe te schrijven aan het versterkte broeikaseffect. Door de eeuwen heen waren er altijd al gevallen van extreme neerslag, ook toen van menselijke invloed nog geen sprake was. Het broeikaseffect verklaart geen individuele gevallen, maar wellicht wel het feit dat extreme neerslag tegenwoordig vaker voorkomt.

Bij het onder menselijke invloed steeds warmer wordende klimaat, waarmee we in de 21e eeuw te maken zullen krijgen, hoort ook een verdere toename van de hoeveelheid neerslag, waarschijnlijk vooral ook in de vorm van zwaardere buien. Uitzonderlijke regenval, met alle gevolgen vandien, zou dus een voorproefje kunnen zijn van wat we zonder maatregelen tegen de uitstoot van broeikasgassen steeds vaker zullen meemaken.

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Op donderdag 26 juli 2007 11:04 schreef Bigfoot414 het volgende:
Vreemd dat we hier bijna nergens last van hebben, hoewel Nederland veel lager ligt dan Engeland.
Je zou toch verwachten dat we compleet verloren zouden zijn bij zulke regenbuien.

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Thursday 26 July WEATHER WARNING Outbreaks of rain will be heavy at times today across parts of southwest England and south Wales. In just a few hours as much as 15 to 30mm of rain is possible, especially over higher ground. Valid until 1500BST.


Thursday 26 July SEVERE FLOOD WARNING There are 6 severe flood warnings currently in force in the United Kingdom: Midlands (3) Thames (3). Further updates will appear here.
Thursday 26 July FLOOD WARNING There are 14 flood warnings currently in force in the United Kingdom: Anglian (2) Midlands (1) Thames (10) Wales (1). Further updates will appear here.

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Two people have died in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, after they tried to pump water from a flooded rugby club. It is thought the two, who were using a petrol-powered pump, may have been overcome by fumes.

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Nog meer regen in Engeland verwacht

Honderdduizenden Britten moeten zich opmaken voor nog meer wateroverlast. De Britse meteorologen voorspellen nog meer regen in de zwaarst getroffen gebieden. Vanochtend leken de ergste problemen achter de rug en was op tal van plaatsten de hoogste alarmfase niet meer van kracht.

Vooral in Midden-Engeland, onder meer in Gloucestershire en Oxford, veroorzaken overstromingen door de regenval nog steeds veel problemen.

In de 250 jaar dat er wordt gemeten is het nog nooit zo'n natte zomer geweest. Er is lokaal al 38 cm regen gevallen, twee keer zoveel als normaal.

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Op donderdag 26 juli 2007 16:33 schreef Fredo55 het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 27 juli 2007 11:57 schreef venomsnake het volgende:

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Tis wat..

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Op vrijdag 27 juli 2007 17:04 schreef E.T. het volgende:
Ik zag net op TT een weeralarm staan voor Engeland..
Weer hevige regenval verwacht a.s zaterag in de getroffen gebieden..

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` Het Britse meteorologische instituut
heeft voor komend weekend een weeralarm
afgegeven.Er wordt van zaterdagavond
tot en met zondagochtend zware regenval
verwacht.Het slechte weer kan opnieuw
leiden tot wateroverlast in Engeland en
Wales.

De brandweer roept inwoners die terug
naar huis keren op om voorzichtig te
zijn.Pompinstallaties en elektrische
apparaten kunnen gevaarlijk zijn.Tot nu
toe zijn acht mensen omgekomen.

Het grootste probleem is het gebrek aan
drinkwater.Zeker 130.000 huishoudens
zitten zonder.In totaal zijn er bijna
15.000 huizen onder water gelopen.

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Op vrijdag 27 juli 2007 17:28 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
Wel goed nieuws voor de kano handelaren.

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Friday 27 July WEATHER WATCH A period of rain is expected to move east across England and Wales on Saturday night. Areas at greatest risk of disruption due to heavy rain are, South Wales and Southwest Midlands where there may be 30mm of rain. There may be further flooding Further updates will appear here.

Friday 27 July SEVERE FLOOD WARNING There is 1 severe flood warning currently in force in the United Kingdom: Thames (1). Further updates will appear here.
Friday 27 July FLOOD WARNING There are 12 flood warnings currently in force in the United Kingdom: Midlands (4) Thames (8) Further updates will appear here.

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Engelsen bereiden zich voor op meer wateroverlast
Uitgegeven: 28 juli 2007 16:57
Laatst gewijzigd: 28 juli 2007 17:25

LONDEN - De bewoners in de Engelse overstromingsgebieden hebben zich zaterdag voorbereid op nieuwe zware regenval en overstromingen. Meteorologen voorspellen dat het in de nacht van zaterdag op zondag opnieuw urenlang zal regenen.

De autoriteiten waarschuwden dat het water in de toch al overvolle rivieren snel kan gaan stijgen. De politie in het graafschap Gloucestershire heeft bewoners opgeroepen niet op weg te gaan omdat straten versperd kunnen zijn.


Op zaterdag vond de brandweer in een ondergelopen veld in het historische marktstadje Tewkesbury het lichaam van een 19-jarige man die al een week werd vermist. Daarmee komt het dodental van een maand van overstromingen op negen.

Het zuidwesten en midden van Engeland zijn de afgelopen week getroffen door de ernstigste wateroverlast in zestig jaar. Overstromingen hebben 15.000 huizen beschadigd, aldus de Britse omroep BBC. De totale schade zou kunnen oplopen tot 5 miljard pond (7,5 miljard euro), aldus de Britse omroep BBC.

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Europe in fire and water onslaught
By FT reporters

Published: July 27 2007 19:02 | Last updated: July 27 2007 19:02

Billions of dollars in damage has been wreaked by freak weather across Europe in the past week.

The death toll from the heat, fires, floods and storms has mounted to the high hundreds, with many thousands more made homeless or having their lives disrupted by weather conditions that have smashed records in many countries across the continent.

Agriculture and tourism have been particularly badly hit, with crops scorched in some areas, waterlogged in others, and tourists forced to flee fires in the south and storms and torrential downpours in northern countries. Electricity blackouts and water shortages caused by fire and flood and affecting hundreds of thousands of households and businesses have compounded the chaos.

In Greece, temperatures have reached 43°C, compared with an average for the time of year of about 35°C, and widespread forest fires have brought chaos. Black-outs have exacerbated the problem.

Seven Greek passenger trains were halted on the tracks for several hours during a black-out on Tuesday. On Thursday, the government told civil servants to go home early in a desperate attempt to cut demand for electricity.

Tourists across the south-eastern part of Europe have faced severe disruption to their holiday plans, with hotels evacuated in fire-stricken areas and some roads rendered too dangerous to travel.

Hundreds of deaths in the region have also been attributed to heatstroke. Though Greece has managed largely to avoid such problems by opening air-conditioned clubs where the elderly can rest, in Hungary officials said about 500 people, mostly elderly, were thought to have died. Romania also reported people collapsing in the street, with at least 27 people thought to have died from heatstroke.

The heatwave has also highlighted problems in south-east Europe’s energy sector. The west Balkan grid has been starved of investment for more than a decade, while hydro-power units are running below capacity because of a prolonged drought. Bulgaria, the region’s main back-up supplier, has cut electricity exports this year by more than 70 per cent following the shut-down in January of two units at the Kozloduy nuclear plant on the Danube, as a condition of European Union accession.

Bulgaria has seen previous weather records smashed as temperatures of 44°C sparked dozens of wildfires around the country in the past two weeks. On Thursday, authorities reported 345 wildfires in the country in the previous 24 hours, including 70 that resulted in damage to private property. Two people were reported killed in the fires, while four more were injured.

The Serbian labour ministry imposed a stoppage on outdoor work during the hottest hours of the day as the temperatures reached a record 43°C. Many vendors closed shop, and normally bustling downtown streets in Belgrade appeared nearly deserted.

Temperatures reached 45°C early in the week in neighbouring Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where hospitals – many lacking air conditioning – struggled to cope with heatwave victims.

Firefighters encountered added difficulties in Bosnia and United Nations-administered Kosovo as the heat set off landmines left over from the 1990s wars.

But for northern parts of Europe, flood rather than fire has been the cause of chaos. The UK had its wettest early summer ever recorded as continuing rainfall this week exceeded the previous high set in 1789. More than 20m litres a day of bottled water is being distributed to householders in one of the worst hit areas of the UK in Gloucestershire, where water, sewage and electricity networks have been overwhelmed by the floodwaters.

Referring to the bottled water, Paul Bloodworth in Gloucester, whose house narrowly missed damage, told the FT: “I’m happy to get this. It’s a scarce commodity now.”

Extreme weather also hit Germany, causing flooding in Bavaria and severe storm damage near Hamburg. In Bavaria, an 82-year-old woman drowned in her basement apartment last weekend when flood waters 1.5m high hit the region.

A motorway was closed after cars partially disappeared under a metre of water, bridges were submerged and hundreds of houses severely damaged. At a music festival near Hamburg, 950 young people had to be evacuated by emergency services, and 14 people were injured.

Forecasters say that the bad weather could continue into next week, although some respite is expected in August.

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Op zaterdag 28 juli 2007 17:40 schreef __Saviour__ het volgende:
Lekker zeg, ze blijven maar bezig. Waar blijft het toch vandaan komen.
Zijn er aparte stromingen in luchtlagen ofzo?

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Change in jet stream brings woe
By Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent

Published: July 27 2007 19:33 | Last updated: July 27 2007 19:33

It may be difficult for those battling fires in southern Europe and floods in the north to believe, but their woes are both caused by the same weather system.

The downpours that have devastated parts of England and Germany and the fires raging in Mediterranean regions are the result of a weather system known as the northern hemisphere jet stream which, say meteorologists, is occupying an unusual position this summer.

The northern jet stream is a westerly wind, about 11 kilometres above the earth’s surface, steering weather systems across the Atlantic.

It is flowing farther to the south than usual this year, allowing a depression, or low-pressure system, to settle over Britain. Normally, the jet stream blows farther north and acts as a barrier, preventing such bad weather from reaching the UK.

The stream is meandering, and Britain currently finds itself in the down trough, bringing poor weather. The upstream, meanwhile, has brought hot weather to the south of Europe, because the low pressure over northern Europe is pulling warmer air from Africa towards it.

Meteorologists say the jet stream has been known to take such a downward course from time to time, so although its position this year is relatively unusual, it is simply part of the planet’s natural climatic variations.

A spokesman for the UK’s Met Office rejected the idea aired by some observers that a weather phenomenon in the Pacific known as La Niña might have altered the jet stream’s position. He said there was little evidence for a link between Europe’s weather and La Niña, the periodic cooling of ocean surface temperatures in the central and east-central equatorial Pacific that can be linked to increased hurricane activity in the Atlantic.

What has also been unusual about the weather pattern of the past few weeks has been its immobility. The low pressure over northern and high pressure over southern Europe have shown little signs of shifting, although forecasters say there may be some change later next week.

The Met Office said the wet weather over northern Europe could have been exacerbated by warmer seas. A mild autumn and winter, and warm spring, have pushed up sea temperatures around the British Isles The consequent evaporation is likely to have put more moisture in the atmosphere, which has then fallen as rain.

This illustrates how global warming could lead to more periods of extreme weather similar to this year’s. Record temperatures in southern Europe could be linked to climate change, as they are just what climate scientists expect to happen as greenhouse gas emissions rise, trapping more of the sun’s heat in the atmosphere. An increase in rainfall is also predicted, because warmer air can hold more moisture.

Tim Osborn, a climate researcher at the University of East Anglia, has calculated that a 1°C change in temperature equates to a 7 per cent change in rainfall, because of this effect. In other words, conditions that would have brought 100mm of rainfall in the past, when it was 1°C cooler, would bring 107mm of rain today.

He said: “If the sequence of weather patterns that caused these [recent British] floods had happened 50 or 100 years ago, it would still have been extremely wet, but perhaps not quite so wet. The slightly cooler atmosphere back then – it has warmed 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius – would have held less water vapour and thus supplied less total rainfall.”

The Met Office described the UK’s floods as a “one-in-200-year event”, with rainfall for the past three months breaking the previous record rain for early summer, which was in 1789.

But Peter Stott, a senior Met Office climate scientist, said such phenomena were now likely to become more common.

“When it rains, it can rain much harder, because the atmosphere can hold more water,” he said.

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Op zaterdag 28 juli 2007 18:41 schreef aloa het volgende:
Engelsen bereiden zich voor op meer wateroverlast

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Op zaterdag 28 juli 2007 17:32 schreef Roel_Jewel het volgende:
http://www.nu.nl/news/117(...)r_wateroverlast.html :

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It's official: the heavier rainfall in Britain is being caused by climate change, a major new scientific study will reveal this week, as the country reels from summer downpours of unprecedented ferocity.

More intense rainstorms across parts of the northern hemisphere are being generated by man-made global warming, the study has established for the first time ­ an effect which has long been predicted but never before proved.

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Op zondag 29 juli 2007 15:43 schreef Monidique het volgende:

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http://environment.indepe(...)e/article2793067.ece

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Op zondag 29 juli 2007 15:50 schreef E.T. het volgende:

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En over drie maanden is er weer een 'major study' die alles tegenspreekt..

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Schade noodweer Groot-Brittannië meer dan 4 miljard
LONDEN - De hevige regenval en de overstromingen die Groot-Brittannië in juni en juli hebben geteisterd, hebben schade ter waarde van meer dan 3 miljard pond (4,4 miljard euro) aangericht. Dat heeft ABI, de koepel van de Britse verzekeraars, dinsdag meegedeeld.

Van mei tot juli viel in Groot-Brittannië bijna 38,8 centimeter neerslag, meer dan ooit tevoren in dit trimester. Het vorige record dateert uit 1789. Toen viel in dezelfde periode meer dan 34,9 centimeter neerslag.