Make sure you are prepared for possibility of coastal flooding in Lincolnshire
ARE you ready for coastal flooding?
As we move into the storm season, and with the 60th anniversary of the 1953 East Coast floods fast approaching, emergency response agencies are encouraging local communities to make sure they have taken steps to prepare for flooding.
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Bud Shields
To help raise awareness of the importance of being prepared, East Lindsey District Council, the Environment Agency and Lincolnshire County Council are launching a six-month campaign to increase the number of households that have completed a flood plan and signed up to receive flood warnings.
Portfolio Holder for Emergency Planning at the District Council, Councillor Tony Bridges, said: “Local residents and communities can take simple steps to help reduce the risk and that’s what our campaign aims to achieve.
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“We’re keen to encourage people who are at risk of flooding to make a call and make a plan. Sign up to the Environment Agency’s free warning service, Flood Warnings Direct, to receive the earliest possible warning if flooding is predicted. Complete a flood plan for your household so you know what to do in a flood-related emergency. Some towns and parishes have already created their own flood plans and for those who haven’t we’d ask that this is given some serious consideration.”
Sutton-on-Sea resident Bud Shields, pictured, who witnessed the January 1953 floods in which 42 people died.
He said: “I helped a couple out of their house with a ladder; while I was up this ladder I saw part of the Beach Hotel suddenly collapse with white water rushing towards where I was standing. It was terrifying.
“Because coastal flooding hasn’t happened for nearly 60 years people don’t think it will ever happen again or they have never known about it in the first place so it never enters their minds.”
Contact Flood Warning Direct by calling 0845 9881188 or download a template Community Emergency and Flood Plan at www.lincolnshireprepared.co.uk
Comments
by para_handy
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 6:54PM
“Fitties1:
The sea defences were destroyed at Suggits lane and I remember the army building a colossal sand bag wall to fill the gap. Following major repairs, the sea wall has been completely rebuilt to a better design. Any successful sea defence will enhance any storm surge, hence areas now being allowed to flood! A new earth embankment has been added south of the leisure centre and west of the fitties camp. Gabion walls have been reinstated along the Fitties sandhills.
There is scant political will to protect the east coast similar to Holland. It would appear the UK government prefers foreign aid and windmills costing far more than effective sea defences.”
by para_handy
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 6:53PM
“Fitties1:
The sea defences were destroyed at Suggits lane and I remember the army building a colossal sand bag wall to fill the gap. Following major repairs, the sea wall has been completely rebuilt to a better design. Any successful sea defence will enhance any storm surge, hence areas now being allowed to flood! A new earth embankment has been added south of the leisure centre and west of the fitties camp. Gabion walls have been reinstated along the Fitties sandhills.
There is scant political will to protect the east coast similar to Holland. It would appear the UK government prefers foreign aid and windmills costing far more than effective sea defences.
This event below has occurred several times but each successive event affects far more habitation and industry as development progress's.
http://tinyurl.com/cggbdo9”
by para_handy
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 6:53PM
“Fitties1:
The sea defences were destroyed at Suggits lane and I remember the army building a colossal sand bag wall to fill the gap. Following major repairs, the sea wall has been completely rebuilt to a better design. Any successful sea defence will enhance any storm surge, hence areas now being allowed to flood! A new earth embankment has been added south of the leisure centre and west of the fitties camp. Gabion walls have been reinstated along the Fitties sandhills.
There is scant political will to protect the east coast similar to Holland. It would appear the UK government prefers foreign aid and windmills costing far more than effective sea defences.
This event below has occurred several times but each successive event affects far more habitation and industry as development progress's.
http://tinyurl.com/cggbdo9”
by Bovis33
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 11:38AM
“It's quite a sunny, dry day here in Cleethorpes once again...
'Don't panic!'”
by davendogs
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 10:29AM
“I'm prepared Captain Peacock. Are you prepared Mrs.Slocombe. Miss.Bramms, woulkd you like preparing?”
by Fitties1
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 10:04AM
“para.........in 1953 how many lives were lost on the Fitties?...........Have the sea defences been improved since then?
What about cleethorpes, how many homes were affected? Have the sea defences been improved since then?
You should do some research and if you live in Cleethorpes you should take your own advice”
by Fitties1
Wednesday, September 26 2012, 10:03AM
“para.........in 1953 how many lives were lost on the Fitties?...........Have the sea defences been improved since then?
What about cleethorpes, how many homes were affected? Have the sea defences been improved since then?
You should do some research and if you live in Cleethorpes you should take your own advice”
by para_handy
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 2:18PM
“Statistics, risk, probabilities........all uncertainties. What is certain is that if a flood has occurred, it will occur again, unless we adopt the Dutch approach to coastal protection.
Also it beggars belief that the NE£C is still pussyfooting about with loss of life at the Fitties camp. In a major event clearly rescue efforts will apply to denser population areas, tasking air rescues will concentrate on major conurbations, and surface access to areas like the Fitties will be out of the question.
It will happen, the scale of lives lost in areas such as the Fitties will be down to inept decisions about holiday occupancy affecting a few scores of people.
Buck beck is purely a gravity drain limited by tide back up when the flood gates close. Surely this outfall should be pumped, able to clear storm water at any tide state.”
by Leveret2
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 2:04PM
“It might be as long again, or even longer ... but it's more about the statistical treatment of extreme events, calculated by R A Fisher in the 1920's. The 1953 flooding was still being remembered vividly ten years on, with the poem High Tide off the Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571, being recited to reassure us just how infrequent such events were.
Who says extreme events can't happen more frequently, though ? Rotterdam's floodgates are an example (fortunately as yet untested) of how seriously the Dutch take their engineers when it comes to planning for such events. It seems to me though that as our whole nation is not under threat, and our coastline much longer than theirs, we either can't or won't act to mitigate the risk to quite the same degree.”
by GerrySixties
Tuesday, September 25 2012, 1:17PM
“Let's keep this in perspective. This is not flooding, but inundation by the sea. The two have differing causes. The East Coast in these parts has only been inundated 3 times (over a 25 year period) in the past century and it might be as long again before this is repeated. It takes the coming together of high winds from the North East, very high tides (Spring), and abnormally low pressure. The chances of this being repeated can be calculated by Actuaries (it is what they do) and we should not be held to ranson by insurers grouping us with 'flood plains' and the like.”