More floods in UK

[GingerBlokey 30]

Well Im in the middle of it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7085394.stm

I live less than a quater of a mile from the river and a metre below sea level.

There is a severe flood warning on my house. Which means "risk to life and property"

Ive spent the last 2 and a half hours collecting sandbags and I am now sat at home waiting for the flood to come and m also trying to move as much stuff upstairs as possible.

This is quite frightening.

A massive tidal surge is working its way up the coast and its coming here.

[Boggy1 45]

I would be terrefied, and crying quite alot, in your situation Adam. It's a mark of just how awesomely mature you are that you can be so calm about this.

I really hope the damage is minial, that the disruption wont be too great, and you can get on with your lives as fast as possible.

[belfastuniguy 18]

I've just seen this on the BBC, was so very surprised. I read they are also closing the Thames Barrier and have evacuated over 200 from the east coast, very very scary indeed.

Would also seem that Rotterdam are closing the port and closing the storm/flood barriers.

[jacqulina 162]

very scary i just watched the film flood too

[Godzillaman 21]

Can't they afford to make walls or embankments? Does it normally flood?

[GingerBlokey 30]

Well its easier said than done to protect the area but it does flood sometimes here.

[JanYpe 17]

Hope you're holding out ok over there.  The worst of the weather is supposed to be over by now.

[ILL Tonkso 1,236]

Gingerblokey is just worried about his home. And we built our cities where they are for good reasons.

Edit: Considering Portsmouths location and lack of ground elevation (the highest point on the island is a bridge over the railway, and the railway is below sea level), i am concerned with the increase in Flooding, Portsmouth gets a lot of it.

[coolotter88 2]

heh 'is home.

[jj88 23]

Hope you get on ok with the floods, luckily where i live there is no problems with floods

[6underground 11]

Looks like the flood defences kept alot of it out

[kawan 6]

I just seen it on the news a while ago - has the flood started? I thought it was quite surprising and scary, I mean a "massive storm surge" heading towards Britain...strong winds and peak high tides rising the sea level by 3 metres. Hope you hang in there.

I live in Manchester so I never experienced a flood here.

[Mikeaut1 261]

Yeah I wonder how everything is doing over there. I looked it up on BBC and they have this article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7086175.stm

It doesn't seem to be that big of a deal, although there is still flooding in some areas. They miscalculated the surge too, based on the article.

[Boggy1 45]

Thank god the floods weren't as bad as they thought they would be. It was a total fluke, as the flood waters just missed the high tide. By minutes.