Jan Harber
Well-Known Member
Alas Snape village did not get off lightly. Our daughter's cottage in Priory Road had several feet of surging water through it between 2.30 and 3am on Friday morning, as did about 15 other nearby properties, plus The Crown Inn where most of the 40 odd turkeys, geese, ducks and chickens perished (the other livestock had been moved). The surge, which was heard by Adrian, on watch fireman from Orford, coming up the Butley River, and seen at Slaughden Quay by the Upsons boatyard staff as a "wall" of water coming through their building shed around 2am, then went on up to the head of the river where it met Snape bridge ahead and the raised quay at The Maltings to the south. Nowhere else for it to go but over the north wall and up to the Gromford Lane/Priory Road crossroads. It topped the wall by half a metre and took away all the gravel path recently installed along the top. Bridge Road was under water still yesterday and still closed to traffic today.
Our daughter and her family and all their flooded neighbours are still trying to come to terms with the devastation, which was worse than in 1953.
Our daughter and her family and all their flooded neighbours are still trying to come to terms with the devastation, which was worse than in 1953.