The Weather & Floods

[itma]

They are only forecasting a 0.6m surge for you, there's more than double that forecast for Sandwich to Dover ... but the real problem is that this is on top of an unusually high tide anyway.

The Sandwich flood warning was actually issued over 24 hours ago, which is pretty impressive.

 

[dpearce4]

are you at risk where you are?

 

[itma]

are you at risk where you are?

If I am, we are all doomed!

I and my bees are about 300 feet above sea level, but I've got friends much much closer to the water ...

 

[dpearce4]

haha

 

[Hivemaker.]

Been quite breezy over in the west today, temperatures forecast to plummet down to only 5c tonight, and maybe only reach a high of 9c tomorrow.

 

[MuswellMetro]

good luck to all beekeepers on the East coast.....
I'm old enough to remember b/w tv from 1953

Wow, you must have been Posh, we only got to see TV at the Vicar#s House, I remeber the coronation 50 kids and people and a 9" ecko TV and large H airel on the vicarage chimney, i also wonderered how they got the pictures into the little tube of the airel

 

[pargyle]

Well .... keeping my fingers crossed for those of you SOUTH of Watford tbat may also be at risk ... the BBC news bigged up the storms the North were facing but even our local news carried no warnings of flooding on the South Coast ? With the high tide tonight any danger is yet to come ... so, once again, Good Luck ...

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Well .... keeping my fingers crossed for those of you SOUTH of Watford tbat may also be at risk ... the BBC news bigged up the storms the North were facing but even our local news carried no warnings of flooding on the South Coast ? With the high tide tonight any danger is yet to come ... so, once again, Good Luck ...

I'm getting reports parts of Hull are flooded.

 

[pargyle]

I'm getting reports parts of Hull are flooded.

Not surprised, the sea was over the sea wall at Cleethorpes on the 6 O'clock news !! By now it could be as far inland as Doncaster !! (Sorry ,,, that's too near the truth to be funny !).

 

[YorkshireBees]

No chance of flooding for me or my hives but the winds were incredible yesterday!

Used my lunch hour to (carefully) drive round my out apiaries and visually check all hives were still vertical (which they were).
Saw a lot of branches (some quite big) down everywhere locally.

Re-affirms my use of hive straps on all hives!

Hope no one was badly affected.

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Not surprised, the sea was over the sea wall at Cleethorpes on the 6 O'clock news !! By now it could be as far inland as Doncaster !! (Sorry ,,, that's too near the truth to be funny !).

The light of morning shows my locality suffered wind damage but no flooding. Hull has the main road A63 closed in parts and the defences overtopped but with limited damage compared with the 2007 floods. At home the wind wrecked a plastic greenhouse but every strong wind does that. A few fence panels have popped out and toys/trampoline blown around. All hives remain intact. The local wind turbines in my sight line stood useless during the gales but sadly none blew over.
The media were next to useless last night as the news was monopolised with Mandela, totally ignoring events at home. Radio Humberside are covering the aftermath but a great number of phone callers are asking why the events were not being given live coverage as they happened. Various villages on the banks of the Humber and Ouse have varying degrees of overtopping water and some breaches of banks. It seems damage did occur but it could have been far worse.
Now the clean up begins!

 

[maddydog]

My mum (and one of my colonies) lives a stones throw from the river hull, if the defences were to be breached then the house would be flooded to the 1st floor! Apparently the tide got within a foot of the barrier top.....
I was working on a demo site in gainsborough, we spent most of the day stopping the steel panel fence blowing away. Amazingly one panel disappeared completely, just the brackets were left and a car with an almighty dent in it! Can only imagine the look on the face of whoever finds it.

 

[coffin dodger]

My mum (and one of my colonies) lives a stones throw from the river hull, if the defences were to be breached then the house would be flooded to the 1st floor! Apparently the tide got within a foot of the barrier top.....

Me too, my front door's about 25 yards from the River Hull but we've not been flooded yet. Those in power seem to have a fixation on building flood defences that seem to push the problem into other areas, maybe they should go back to the tried and trusted method of dredging the rivers instead.

BTW all hives survived the gales and still standing upright.

Regards
CD

 

[Erichalfbee]

Wind?
What wind?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Wind?
What wind?

I did notice that a bucket had moved a few feet from where I'd left it yesterday

 

[Swarm]

Working in Llanwrda yesterday, a couple of branches down along the A40.

 

[farbee]

If I am, we are all doomed!

I and my bees are about 300 feet above sea level, but I've got friends much much closer to the water ...

That must be one of the highest places in Kent.

 

[Hivemaker.]

That must be one of the highest places in Kent.

Think the highest is over 800ft.

 

[charlievictorbravo]

After this thread started yesterday, I thought I'd check up on the areas with severe flood warnings because I have friends near the East and South East coasts. From 10pm onwards, I watched all the news channels on the hour and half hour - what did I find - Nelson Mandella had died.

For over three hours that's all that was on the news channels on TV. They even spent 10 minutes interviewing a guy who wrote the lyrics of a song about Nelson Mandella. It reminded me so much of "Drop the Dead Donkey". At 1 a.m. I gave up and went to bed.

Don't get me wrong - I admire NM for his humanity and wisdom but I do think the media have overdone it a bit. Even this morning, it took ages for to find out that the damage done on the east coast was fortunately less that it might have been because they were still over-reporting that NM had died.

Where, oh where is a proper news service when you need one?

CVB

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Working in Llanwrda yesterday, a couple of branches down along the A40.

That's usually down to fast moving lorries! not too far from me and the winds weren't that bad