GALLERY: Flood warnings in place for a second day as high tide meets heavy rainfall (From Thisisdorset)
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GALLERY: Flood warnings in place for a second day as high tide meets heavy rainfall
4:00pm Wednesday 17th October 2012 in Latest
The beach and cafe at Rockley Sands, sent in by reader
Flood warnings have been issued for overnight and tomorrow morning as heavy rain coincides with seasonal high tides.
Residents in Swanage and Corfe Castle are being warned that 25mm of rain is likely to fall between 7pm and 1am, causing streams and rivers to burst their banks.
And businesses around Poole Harbour are braced for a second day of flooding at high tide tomorrow lunchtime.
Flooding at the "spring" high tide this morning left Rockley Sands underwater, stopped the Sandbanks Chain Ferry from running and left workers at Sydenhams in Poole sailing through their warehouse.
The beach and cafe at Rockley Sands were under water and completely inaccessible at 11am.
Reader Mark Gilmore sent us this picture of the Sunseeker dock underwater at Poole.
On Bournemouth beach, the council built a sand bank around the new beach wedding hut to stop it being damaged by the water.
@bournemouthecho took this picture this morning of @bournemouthbc protecting the wedding beach hut #poolehightide twitter.com/DavidCSargent/…
— David Sargent (@DavidCSargent) October 17, 2012
The Sandbanks ferry was cancelled due to the high tide:
If anybody thought it was so we could put our feet up, well here is the high tide... @sandbanksferry twitter.com/garphied/statu…
— Gareth Davies (@garphied) October 17, 2012
And Gary Willingham sent us this picture looking out over the watersports lake.
@bournemouthecho view from the back of @fcwatersports and @lizleanpr offices all the piers under the water. twitter.com/gary_willingha…
— Gary Willingham (@gary_willingham) October 17, 2012
Do you have any pictures of flooding this morning? Email digital@bournemouthecho.co.uk
Harbour Master Brian Murphy said: “There's a high tide. Combined with the effect of the wind, you are potentially going to get some flooding of the coastline and areas around the harbour.
“We get it now and again and this week we've had a few alerts. We've got some water lying over one of the quays, but it's caused no problems at all in the port.”
He explained that tides were often higher and lower than usual around the time of the equinoxes when the moon's gravity has its greatest effect.
Mr Murphy warned people going out on the water to be careful. “There has been a lot more water in the harbour so the ebb tide gets stronger,” he said.
A spokesperson for the Borough of Poole said the only report it had received of flooding this morning had been caused by an outfall in Hazelbury Road, Creekmoor.
Comments(12)
Arthur Maureen
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4:09pm Wed 17 Oct 12
MikeFrench
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4:25pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Humf
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5:00pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Jaysus, do they have to move the lawnmower and bbq out of it before anyone gets married ?!
BarrHumbug
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5:45pm Wed 17 Oct 12
Letcommonsenseprevail
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8:34pm Wed 17 Oct 12
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Phixer
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6:54am Thu 18 Oct 12
106mm of rain fell in Singapore yesterday afternoon and, guess what, life went on. Amazing!
fossilmole
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10:36am Thu 18 Oct 12
stevobath
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12:08pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Phixer wrote:Ah, but that was 'the correct type of rain'.We dont seem to get that kind of rain in UK...whatever it is?
"..... are being warned that 25mm of rain is likely to fall...."
106mm of rain fell in Singapore yesterday afternoon and, guess what, life went on. Amazing!
Its a bit like when we get snow.In Scotland life genrally goes on,albeit at a different pace.In UK everything seems to grind to a halt?
stevobath
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12:10pm Thu 18 Oct 12
fossilmole wrote:Just get a load to link arms? ;)
Harry Redknapp and his mates at Sandbanks will be wanting us taxpayers to build dykes around his £million investment I suppose.
Bob49
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1:25pm Thu 18 Oct 12
And would it not be a better idea to simply take it off the beach for the winter ?
Any sand wall they put up will just be washed away after a few tides
Jammydodg
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1:45pm Thu 18 Oct 12
Humf says...
2:14pm Wed 17 Oct 12
A glimmer of hope that it may get washed away when it opens perhaps ?!