Keswick Floods
Friday, 7th January
The river sounds like a jet engine outside and is rising higher by the minute. I can't sleep and am watching it pour over the mill-race wall at the bottom of our garden. Just another few inches and it will be in the septic tank. But it does not rise any further. We awake to find white waves running down its centre and it is flowing past the house at maybe forty miles an hour.
Saturday, 8th January
Have been following Sky's New's Reporter around Keswick. Trees have fallen down along the roads, our supermarket is under water, we have lost one of our bridges across the Derwent. Some of our friends have no electriciy and another couple we know were evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night. One of the launches has crashed into a fuel tanker at the edge of the lake and firemen are trying to haul it out. The diesel has flooded into the lake. Apparantly Carlisle has been hit really bad. We have no TV and cannot get any newspapers through, but we have been watching footage from BBC News on the PC and can't really believe what we are seeing - the whole of the city centre is under water and there is no way in or out at the moment.
For a 3mb movie-clip of our river click here: http://www.templum.com/GretaFlood.avi
The river sounds like a jet engine outside and is rising higher by the minute. I can't sleep and am watching it pour over the mill-race wall at the bottom of our garden. Just another few inches and it will be in the septic tank. But it does not rise any further. We awake to find white waves running down its centre and it is flowing past the house at maybe forty miles an hour.
Saturday, 8th January
Have been following Sky's New's Reporter around Keswick. Trees have fallen down along the roads, our supermarket is under water, we have lost one of our bridges across the Derwent. Some of our friends have no electriciy and another couple we know were evacuated from their homes in the middle of the night. One of the launches has crashed into a fuel tanker at the edge of the lake and firemen are trying to haul it out. The diesel has flooded into the lake. Apparantly Carlisle has been hit really bad. We have no TV and cannot get any newspapers through, but we have been watching footage from BBC News on the PC and can't really believe what we are seeing - the whole of the city centre is under water and there is no way in or out at the moment.
For a 3mb movie-clip of our river click here: http://www.templum.com/GretaFlood.avi
posted by Brina Katz at 10:38 PM
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