The high spring tide on Sunday 13 February, 2005 put the East Coast on flood alert. Fishermen in Wells-next-the-Sea stow cargo and make safe their moorings.
Share your stories from a night on the coast when February high tides looked likely to cause flooding in the county.
Peter Read Ray,
Unless you missed it England & even East Anglia moved to the Metric System some years ago! Thu Mar 22 07:07:26 2007
Mick Wragg Please make it clear for those who may not be aware of what they actually were that the rows of concrete blocks at Winterton on Sea were actually tank obstruction blocks which originally formed part of our coastal defenses during World war 2. Fri Jun 16 20:50:47 2006
Ray Millard It would be nice if you used English measurements. Sun Apr 16 09:56:01 2006
Pat Gowen The many millions of tons of sand and shingle dredged off our coastline are now causing the loss of our shoreline to a far greater extent than Global Warming induced sea rise or East Anglian sinkage.
It is not so much that the seas are rising but that our beaches are being stripped and lowered, so allowing high tides to undermine our dunes and soft cliffs, only to provide more sand to move offshore for further exploitation and profit.
When will a government wake up to this and look to a sustainable future rather than a short term gain ?
Add to this the cut in marine defence funding, letting our few defences decay and the refusal to compensate those who lose their living or livelihood, and the real short-term economic reason becomes apparent.
Pat Gowen o.b.o. MARINET the Marine Information Network and NSAG, the North Sea Action Group.
This malpractice is banned in Europe because of the erosion and damage to fish stocks it creates. But over 30% of that sand and gravel stripped from our seabed is exported there to make up for the deficiency. Fri Feb 18 21:05:14 2005
