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Adam Lea writes:
On 25/08/13 17:32, Dave Cornwell wrote:
My friend is a local Councillor on Canvey Island and was out wading
through knee deep water rescuing some old people living in bungalows who
were temprarily cut off. He was around in 1953 but wasn't comparing
though mentioned something similar around 1960. One of the problems was
the high tide was about 4pm so the water level in the creek was making
it difficult to pump water away hence the problems they were having with
it backing up through the toilets. Apparently a lot of recent building
has connected surface water drains to the sewage system.
Dave

Sounds like if anything a yellow warning was insufficient. The
effects you describe sound more akin to an amber warning,
possibly even a red warning in very localised areas.

The colour of the warning takes into account both the probability of the
event occurring and its severity if it occurs, not just its severity.
Also I imagine that there was no way of predicting just where the really
heavy rain would fall, and they couldn't know that it would be somewhere
as susceptible to flooding as Canvey Island.
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John Hall
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but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)