The Yorkshire Floods

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• Repairs to a road linking two North Yorkshire villages could take up to two months and the cost could be as high as £3m

• Thousands of homes across the country have been hit by flooding in the past few months, with the Guardian revealing in July that hundreds of flood defences have gone unbuilt due to budget cuts. Officials at the EA said homeowners should sign up to flood warnings to avoid "the worst impacts of flooding".

• The flooding in September 2012 was the worst to hit North Yorkshire for more than a decade!

• Heavy downpours throughout Yorkshire swelled rivers and flooded 400 homes and businesses, while rail and road networks were swamped by high water levels

• The River Wharfe split the North Yorkshire town of Tadcaster in two, forcing firefighters to close the bridge carrying the A659 over the river after they noticed water seeping through the structure.

• Another North Yorkshire town, Boroughbridge, was also divided yesterday when the bridge over the River Ure was closed due to flooding. Firefighters had to rescue people from a number of riverside homes in the area.

York Floods- 25th September 2012• Kelly Bailey, landlady of The Jubilee pub in Leeman Road, said the drains had

flooded her cellar. She said:

• "It's not far off touching the ceiling right now, it's very deep. I'm not going to be able to get in there for at least a day to get to any of my beer barrels, it's going to be quite expensive.It's just happened so quickly and it's so drastic”

Leeman Road , where Kelly Bailey’s pub was flooded. The fire service is draining the floodwater

Eyewitnesses- York- 25th September 2012

• A York tourism agency said it had been helping tourists stuck in York due to transport problems. Shelley Taylor and Phil Rob from Canada were due to travel to Edinburgh. Ms Taylor said:

River Ouse in York

“It’s really bad. I do not believe it’s as bad as it was in 2000 but it’s the worst that I have

seen it in ten years.”

"Our train got cancelled so we came to Visit York. We were going to take a bus to Newcastle and hope to get a train from there but that wasn't a sure thing so now we are staying in lovely York. I was cold, tired and cranky. It has been a bit stressful."

Jamie-Leigh Binns, a pub landlord , said:

Eyewitness Accounts-Flooding In Tadcaster 26th September 2012

"My daughter lives over the other side and she's been ill

but I don't drive so I can't get to see her -it's a town in two

halves”

Peter Nicholson was unable to make his medical appointment because of the closure.

."Normally it would take me five minutes to get there, but it

would have meant going half way up to York and then coming

back on myself to get there,"

Flooding in Tadcaster -26th September 2012

"We're one community but we are split in two today, we are totally dependent on the bridge. It's a four or five mile trip around without it, just to get to the other side. We have a doctor's on one side, schools on both sides, all sorts of businesses on either side. We've got our fingers crossed. We've got everything crossed.“

• In Tadcaster, the river was so high the bridge had to be closed for safety inspections.

• The Mayor of Tadcaster, Steve Cobb said:

Eyewitness Accounts- Flooding in Tadcaster – 26th September 2012

• Owner of a beauty salon, Debbie Tyrell said: "The drains backed up and water

came in downstairs. We managed to get things upstairs and we were

lucky because it was clean surface water not sewage water. The

emergency services were brilliant and so were other businesses.

Everyone came together.“

“there was a "real community spirit"."It was like a wartime spirit which made a not-great situation bearable

Zoe and Nick Devine, owners of Devine Meats, which was flooded

More eyewitness stories in North Yorkshire• In Gilling West, retired postman Freddie Wilson, 72, said :

• “It was like a river flowing down the road when it happened. It came so suddenly it was if someone had opened a floodgate. The village is devastated. Whatever defences they have put up do not seem to be working.”

• Mark Smith, from Castleford, said his home was flooded with more than 2ft (0.6m) of water. Mr Smith said he had just finished repairs after the property was inundated in June.

• "We were just putting everything back to normal and we get hit again. We had a warning but there isn't much you can do. The cost of repairs three months ago were more than £40,000.”

• A flood warning is in place on the River Aire in Leeds which has been swollen by recent heavy rain.• Mr Smith said:

• "It is disheartening and it is hard to look to the future in a property when we don't know how often this is going to happen."

• Oona McNee, who lives opposite the River Aire, said: • "Just over the road it's up to thigh deep, it's obviously very quick, it's quite scary.“

• One man said he was considering moving after his home was flooded for the second time in a year

Flooding In The UK -2012

Statistics for 2012

• June• It was the wettest June across the UK in the series

from 1910• Dozens of uprooted trees brought down power

cables and engineers worked to restore power to nearly 300 homes across South West England. Road closures, bridge restrictions and cancelled ferries caused some travel problems.

• 11th- 12th flooding disrupts properties in Yorkshire• 22nd- Cumbria and Yorkshire have 500 homes

flooded• 27th- 1000 homes left without power in Belfast• 28th- Northern England, Scotland and Ireland

affected by thunderstorms, railway lines cut and power lost to

28 000 homes, as well as landslides

SeptemberIn 1 night 2 weeks worth of rain fell in Northern England100 cars were trapped in Yorkshire when a motorway closedTrain services in northern England were affected by flooding. Heavy rain and severe winds power cuts and travel problems and swept sand-filled foam into parts of Scotland Floods in Bristol caused one of the biggest blood bank with thousands of units transferred to other centres by refrigerated lorries

• Newburn, Newcastle. Flooding caused a landslide next to these flats

River Ouse bursting its banks in York, September 2012

Farmers rescue their sheep from the floodwaters in Stockton

World Wide Flooding

Pakistan Floods 2010• The worst flooding • in Pakistan's history• At least 1600 people died• 20 Million people were affected• 474 still missing • 1,334 people injured • 337,282 people rescued • 302,000 houses damaged

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