Reply #57: on that dreadful night in 53 [View All]

[silverlil]

my girlfriend and I walked out of the pictures at 8:30 and we had to walk backwards and hold on to one another because the wind was so bad and after I got on my bus and she walked home, 2 hours later that area was under 5 feet of water, so was my friend's house. We did not have the warnings back them. A gale is a gale and we were used to gales plus my parents would never have allowed me out if we had known something like was about to take place back then. We had just came off rationing, it was a very bad time in England during those years. Half of the town was under water in 53 and the area where Cromwell hid out was left in a very bad shape. You are right about the fishermen, my grandad was a skipper, made peanuts then, after he died, skippers were riding around in mercedes! I am glad to hear your father is alright.

England needs to start thinking like Holland - it will only take one bad storm to knock out this flatland. Cheers.