Flooding!

[Sorrel]

Anyone else seen the Government's new flood warning website. It shows where rivers are likely to flood, or what would happen if sea defences were to fail.

Pevensy Bay isn't looking too good:

http://maps.environment-agency.gov.uk/wiyby/locationSelectionController?multiselect=true&x=565660.0&y=103980.0&location=Pevensey%20Bay,%20East%20Sussex&lang=_e&layerGroups=1,

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Scroll west a few clicks from that map of Pevensey Bay and you'll find a place that's marked "Traditional Site of the Landing of the Normans 1066".

It's about three miles inland.

Which just goes to show how the coastline changes.

 

[Gazwag]

Scroll west a few clicks from that map of Pevensey Bay and you'll find a place that's marked "Traditional Site of the Landing of the Normans 1066".

It's about three miles inland.

Which just goes to show how the coastline changes.

That's why Pevensey Castle was built by the Normans where it is, it was on the coast then

 

[Seagulltonian]

That's why Pevensey Castle was built by the Normans where it is, it was on the coast then

That's why I spend so much time on this site, its so educational, a much better reference than any of the search engines !!

Very scary though looking at what areas along the south coast round this way could be flooded

 

[Lord Bracknell]

No-one will miss Selsey, though.

 

[B.M.F]

No-one will miss Selsey, though.

Apart from that Astrologer bloke Patriick Moore I think?

 

[Marc]

Apart from that Astrologer bloke Patriick Moore I think?

and he was probably alive in 1066 to remember the invasion! and will no doubt still be alive when this flooding happens...the mans a MACHINE!

 

[beorhthelm]

i remember the Monster Raving Looney Party having a manifesto policy to force houses built on flood plains to be built on stilts. It doesnt seem so funny after all.

And they've been campagining for 24 Pub licences since the 70's. They are clearly the most progressive party in British politics

 

[Brovion]

That's why I spend so much time on this site, its so educational, a much better reference than any of the search engines !!

It IS educational - but Pevensey Castle was originally built by the Romans.

 

[Bwian]

Apart from that Astrologer bloke Patriick Moore I think?

The mind boggles...Patrick Moore doing horoscopes

 

[Lush]

Any excuse to post this link...

(Contains music for those pretending to work)

 

[Heffle Gull]

who'd have thought it, any one living near a river or on a low coastal plain is likely to get flooded

btw has any noticed that Brighton Mraina is a flood risk

 

[B.M.F]

The mind boggles...Patrick Moore doing horoscopes