"Dave Liquorice" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:28:34 +0000, stuart noble wrote:


yesterday it had risen over all the bridges across it and the dog was
not keen to go across as he couldn't see the bridge,

Sensible dog.

so I went first and the water was nearly over my wellies.

The alarming thing is that fast moving water halfway up your wellies
can take you with it!

Quite. Not many people realise the force of flowing water and that any
depth much above your ankles can be risky, knee depth is really risky

Yes

Knocked off your feet into 4' of flowing flood water would be a very
serious situation, even if you could grab a bit of bridge there is no
guarantee that you could hold on long or even have the strength to haul
yourself out of the flow.

You just cannot survive 4 feet of fast flowing water. It will knock you off
your feet and you will drown.

I am sorry to say that an elderly woman is now dead as result of the St
Asalph floods. I don't know if she drowned in her house or what.






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Cheers
Dave.