East Coast Storm

[Calnefoxile]

All,

With the sad loss of Pete Mc and Nelson Mandela in the last few days, the latest severe storm seems to have taken a bit of a back burner on here.

I know there a few of our members who live over on the East Coast and I do hope that you and your families are all well and not very soggy. I also hope that your Model Railways have survived intact.

Also, does anyone know if Ray  and Carol Hansen are fine as I know they live in the Jaywick area of Clacton-on-Sea, which seems to have been hit quite hard.

regards

Neal.

[B757-236GT]

When i was up in Birmingham yesterday they werent allowing the XC service to go up to the east coast which was causing chaos. Add to that a points, failure, lineside equipment failure and a signal fault all at New Street made yesterday quite interesting. I was one of the lucky ones as all the XC services from the southwest were being turned straight around to go back. The woman who sat across from me had arrived at Sheffield station at 9am and by 3pm had only reached new street. She had to go via Manchester, Warrington to Liverpool and then onto Crewe and then Stoke to get to New Street.

Richard

[Chris]

North Norfolk looks to have been hit pretty hard. I'll be making a trip to the North Norfolk Railway over the weekend to see that they are ok. Thankfully those I know in the area are safe. Some were not so lucky. My old town of Lowestoft took rather a battering.

We had no services to the coast this morning, partly due to the flooding but also as the DMUs had to cover the class 90s to London due to loss of OHLEs.

[Mr Sprue]

Brightlingsea and Mersea were flooded pretty bad, from what I can gather a few rescues took place by the RNLI. Further down the coast to the Thames estuary it was only a shallow flooding of the odd building and the odd sinking of a couple of boats that was cause to any concern.

However there are two more high tides yet and providing the wind stays down and the pressure high that should be the end to it .

P.S To those who designed and built the Thames wall, hats off to you...you did a great job!

[Lawrence]

We had them up here too, but the EBC glossed over that with the exception of sticking some poor lass out in 80mph+ winds and lashing rain to do a quick OB 

[beestie]

had it all over here in the midlands , a few accidents on the m6 , a34  and a few interesting times when the bus seemed to sway from side to side a 2 and a half hour ride instead of the usual 30 mins , lots of trees down and every train canceled . called for an interesting evening . 

[Newportnobby]

Some awful shots tonight of people's homes disappearing into the sea

[Caz]

I still have BBC East as my preferred region and saw the houses at Hemsby which had fallen into the sea, used to live quite near there before I moved to the sunshine, still got friends at Bacton and they were moved out just in case but didn't get flooded in the end.

[Pengi]

Sussex & Hants affected by the tidal wave too - homes flooded

[RST]

Gosh I guess it's been pretty bad then.  We had a terrible storm at 06:00 yesterday including thunder, which is pretty rare for here.  Then there's been a bit of snow for the past 2 days.  Not much, but surprised it's stuck considering the rain beforehand.  Last week they were forecasting 13-15 degrees for here, now we're in negative temps.  Seems to be a big change!  I always feel for anyone flooded out though -that must be a nightmare.

[ParkeNd]

I used to live in the coastal area of Essex so had a look at the Essex internet newspapers. Jaywick  appears to have the worst risk of flooding tonight with 2000 people expected to ask to be evacuated during the night of 5th/6th Dec.

My wife complains about us living on a hill 300 feet above sea level - walking uphill is better than swimming in the lounge any time.

[MikeDunn]

living on a hill 300 feet above sea level

Sounds like you may live in my area ?

[NTrain]

I live in Heacham, near Hunstanton. I lived in a caravan near Hunstanton beach until a couple of months back and would have been evacuated if we had still been there. We were lucky.

Our local Sealife Centre got flooded and lost all power. The staff and emergency services worked all night and the following day to save the fish. A special lorry from Weymouth had to be used.

We were lucky, as the high tide was the same as the 1953 disaster. However, lesson were learned from that and our sea defences, generally held up.

Further round the coast, Well, Cley, Caister, Hemsby and others were not so fortunate.