Flooding @ Shingle St
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Charlotte Anne
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Much of Orfordness, Havergate Island and the marshes up the Alde look just like that. The river wall and marsh just above Slaughden is almost the only area not breached / flooded which I guess is just as well as that is how the water would get into the town 'the back way'.
sarabande
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glacial isostatic adjustment, I am given to understand.
I guess your descendants will be able to grow rice and coconuts.
I guess your descendants will be able to grow rice and coconuts.
Hydrozoan
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Don't start a global warming thread on the EC forum, please - that's what The Lounge is for, surely!
FullCircle
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I think the key word here is 'marsh'. A bit of an overflow for occasional 'oops' weather events.
Makes a change from dragging wooly mammoth bones off the floor of the North Sea.
Makes a change from dragging wooly mammoth bones off the floor of the North Sea.
Cantata
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Not warming.......the SE corner of UK is sinking, NW is rising, to do with the weight of ice up north during the last Ice Age. Or something.Don't start a global warming thread on the EC forum, please - that's what The Lounge is for, surely!
Hadenough
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johnalison
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I imagine there was quite a lot of flooding around. This was the Colne at the weekend from WSC looking towards Fingringhoe to the right.
Seashoreman
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I was hoping all the water in the river might have opened up the mouth of the river but it seems not, didnt drop very quickly. Am working in Martello Tower this week, will have a good look from the roof. All this water in excellent pic ran away fairly soon, so I was told. Not so at Snape unfortunetly. Upsons boatyard got it upto bench height but no major losses. AYC raised clubhouse was 18ins from flooding. Tide almost to top of river wall. We got off lightly here, lets hope thats it for 60 years.
Hydrozoan
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That's why I did not refer to the rice, but just the coconuts - or do they need submergence, too? :ambivalence:
Jan Harber
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Alas Snape village did not get off lightly. Our daughter's cottage, opposite the Golden Key, 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 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.
Tomahawk
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The problem with all those marshes is that they are entirely artificial and un-natural. They hold fresh water when they should be salt. The flood defences have wrecked the natural activity of the beaches and marshes.
Unfortunately, the RSPB and other environmental outfits have sold the notion of a sanitised, picture post card version of nature where pretty ducks fly about and frolic in the sun.. and people buy into the notion by watching countryfile and driving out to look the pretty landscape...
The reality of nature is somewhat different as Jan's daughter has found to her cost.
Unfortunately, the RSPB and other environmental outfits have sold the notion of a sanitised, picture post card version of nature where pretty ducks fly about and frolic in the sun.. and people buy into the notion by watching countryfile and driving out to look the pretty landscape...
The reality of nature is somewhat different as Jan's daughter has found to her cost.
Jan Harber
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Don't get me going about the RSPB, they have a great deal to answer for.
Not least at Wallasea where until relatively recently, bumper crops of wheat grew on the island's 2,000 acres of rich alluvial soil.
Not any more since the RSPB flooded it and are currently filling it with all that spoil, how convenient for Cross Rail. Still we do now have lit buoyage all the way up the Crouch...
Not least at Wallasea where until relatively recently, bumper crops of wheat grew on the island's 2,000 acres of rich alluvial soil.
Not any more since the RSPB flooded it and are currently filling it with all that spoil, how convenient for Cross Rail. Still we do now have lit buoyage all the way up the Crouch...
Tomahawk
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Agree with you about the Wallasea theme park...
The matrrial comming out of that could have built flood defences to protect people and homes.... but the RSPB. and a lot of council workers seem to think slugs, worms and flying shytehawks are more important than people.
The matrrial comming out of that could have built flood defences to protect people and homes.... but the RSPB. and a lot of council workers seem to think slugs, worms and flying shytehawks are more important than people.