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Good evening and welcome to BBC Points West. We're live on the | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
Somerset Levels as the flooding crisis deepens. | :00:11. | :00:12. | |
After seven weeks, the weather got even worse today, much to the | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
despair of those clinging on to dry land. | :00:17. | :00:18. | |
Torrential rain and 70mph winds dump tonnes of extra water on a landscape | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
that's already sodden. We meet a family hoping for the best | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
but fearing the worst as the elements combine against them. I | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
have been through every single emotion in these last few days. I | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
have cried, laughed, felt physically sick with stress. | :00:42. | :00:46. | |
The farmers at the end of their tether ` how long can they survive? | :00:47. | :00:50. | |
And swaying in the gale ` the Clifton Suspension Bridge closed for | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
the first time due to high winds whipping up the Avon Gorge. | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Hello ` from a windswept Somerset after yet another day of appalling | :01:04. | :01:09. | |
weather. We are in the village of Burrowbridge, less than ten miles | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
from the M5, yet a world away from normal life. This is a community | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
under siege. At the mercy of the elements. And the weather Gods are | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
not being kind. We drove here on the last open road through miles of | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
flooded farmland. The River Parrott is behind us ` and they have built | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
up the banks with sandbags in a last ditch attempt to save the pub and | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
the homes around here. Other places haven't been as lucky ` the village | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
of North Curry four miles away is under a foot of water ` although as | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
we speak ` no properties have gone under. It's apparent that the | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
emergency is far from over. Andrew Plant has our first report. | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
A car long since claimed by the water. This morning in the village | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
of Long Load. The wind whipped these floods into waves. Looking out to | :02:01. | :02:11. | |
sea, oh dear me. For locals like Ken, the daily ride has been cut | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
short. This pause in normal life is now part of the routine. What is | :02:16. | :02:25. | |
your normal route? I normally go down by the River parrot. But this | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
is as far as I'm going. As winds hit more than 60 mph in the West. The | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
trees began to fall. The driver of this lorry on the A39 somehow | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
escaping without being seriously hurt. Filmed on a phone. In Bristol | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
the suspension bridge quivered. The engineering creaked. In Somerset ` | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
the sandbagging ` the shoring up of these swollen rivers continued. As | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
those living with this water looked uneasily on. This driving wind and | :02:52. | :03:08. | |
rain is extremely bad news. That village a couple of miles across the | :03:09. | :03:16. | |
water, the properties again to flood about 12 hours after the rains come | :03:17. | :03:23. | |
down. Rescue teams aware that more rain here means more flooding from | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
water with nowhere to go. Normally, the emergency phase is over in only | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
a few days. We have been sustaining that for a number of weeks. As you | :03:34. | :03:42. | |
can see, it is still raining. In some places it has begun to sink | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
back. But no sense yet in addressing the damage because no`one can say it | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
won't soon come back. The wind is picking up again. I am | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
joined by Craig Woolhouse, from the Environment Agency. They had if | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
there difficult job today. Where is all that rain going to go? It is | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
coming down the River parrot in particular, which took most of the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
rainfall today. We see the rain falls slowly rising and we see more | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
rainfall coming in on Friday. It is a difficult situation on the moors | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
and levels. There are one or two things we are planning at the moment | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
which we are trying to put in place and we hope those will come on | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
stream in the next couple of days. I you expecting more properties to | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
flood? We have had a couple flood but it is likely that more well We | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
are putting in a big pumping operation to improve the capacity | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
and the throughput of water in the river system and take away some of | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
the pressure on flooded properties. Driving here today, and seeing the | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
sheer expanse of flooded areas, is there much that human beings can do | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
until the rain actually lets up We need the weather to let up. We have | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
to see the water drain away over the coming weeks. It will be weeks | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
before we can get the water away. We have the pump stations and plays | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
every day of the year but we have brought in extra capacity. This | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
weekend, we hope to be pumping more down into the King Sedgemore drain | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
and out into the River parrot further downstream. That'll | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
hopefully get as to draw level down quicker. The prime ministers said | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
money was no object when it came to the flooding, have you now got the | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
people and machinery? We have brought pumps over from Holland | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
bigger pumps that we have `` then we have seen in this country. We are | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
trying to help the situation. Thank you very much indeed. We are seeing | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
you working very hard. Let's go inside the pub. | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
I am in the King Alfred Inn in Boroughbridge. This is the hub of | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
the local community. All the local communities are on the other side, | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
talking about what they have done. This is also the headquarters for | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
Flooding on the Levels Action Group. We met last week, Rebecca in | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
Moorland. It is a different picture. Completely different. Last Tuesday | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
was a normal night. We had a Flooding on the Levels Action Group | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
meeting and then we had a police helicopter is telling us we had to | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
evacuate. Tell us what your groupies? It is an action group not | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
a charity. We highlighted our campaign to get the rivers dredged | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
and then it became an information point about road closures. You have | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
managed to do incredible things You have moved cattle, got lorries in. | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
We have coordinated the movement of 850 cattle on Thursday. We had a | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
convoy of 15 cat `` tractors and trains moving cattle. Otherwise they | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
would have been drowned. I have noticed your timeline is as full of | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
banks as it is for gas additives of `` your timeline is as full of banks | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
as with calls for help. We have been fighting over the last few days It | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
has been a complete emergency situation. The agencies have not | :07:45. | :07:51. | |
been quick enough to respond. We are managing quite well but we are now | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
talking to Somerset County Council and hopefully they will be able to | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
take up some of the slack. You are doing this out of your own time | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
this is your life? Yes, my life has totally changed. We were evacuated | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
on Wednesday. Our house and village of flooded. A complete change of | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
life. And there have been outpourings from our viewers. Our | :08:20. | :08:33. | |
reporter has been in Moorland. This is the sixth day that | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
volunteers have delivered sandbags. They are headed to the only visible | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
bit of road in Moorland village I haven't come to meet Angela | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
Greenway. The sandbags are keeping the water away from 14 houses which | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
are surrounded by flooding on three sides. It is a nightmare. People | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
have waded through mud and water to get to us. The idea is to build a | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
wall here. We have 5000 sandbags coming in. Most of the work has been | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
done by the people who live here. They have even putting in their own | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
pump. They feel they have been left on their own and the daily routine | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
of fighting the floods has taken its toll. I have been through every | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
emotion in these last few days. I have cried, laughed, felt physically | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
sick with stress. This is a crazy world at the moment. Do you want to | :09:29. | :09:39. | |
go to school? Yeah. Time for a quick cup of tea before the sandbags | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
arrive. Angela's daughter Georgie is not going to school for fear of | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
being cut off. The logistics of getting from a to B are a nightmare. | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
I am scared because you don't know what is happening overnight. There | :09:57. | :10:04. | |
are some amazing donations. The Greenway's conservatory `` the | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
greenways' conservatory has turned into a distribution centre. She | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
shows me yet more donations. Get that into the freezer, and find out | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
who we can distribute it to. It is great because the guys working late | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
and villages hit the stew and take it out to them. `` and we can just | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
heat the stew. The last sandbags arrive. Time to get the neighbours | :10:39. | :10:46. | |
out to deliver them. They are determined to do battle with the | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
elements until the bitter end. I hope we reflect the community | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
spirit. It is easy for us to say that, but it is overwhelming. You | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
feel it. One man who knows more about it is Ravi Singh. He is from | :11:06. | :11:14. | |
Slough. We are from Slough. We are an international relief organisation | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
funded by the Sikh community. The organisation is Khalsa Aid. We | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
didn't take this seriously at first but then on radio five live we heard | :11:27. | :11:35. | |
about why `` people asking why international organisations were not | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
doing anything. But you only came for a day? We came for a day on | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
Saturday, and I'm still here. More people are coming tomorrow. The | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
whole community is together. You haven't stopped. This is a real | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
harbour. You took a minute to text your family and tell them you were | :11:56. | :12:03. | |
gay. `` this is a real centre. Yes, I did that. The problem here is that | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
the community has been left on their own. We are doing filling in. We are | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
filling a hundred tonnes of sandbags. When Flooding on the | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
Levels Action Group's resents it was talking, that they want the council | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
to take over, I think it will be a huge mistake if they do not get the | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
local community to work with them. They did do so last night, but it is | :12:37. | :12:50. | |
a valid point. Dozens suck. `` Dozens of farms are | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
here on the Levels. As the water rose we witnessed | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
frantic scenes as many heartbroken farmers had to move their cows to | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
save them from drowning. Now with their fields under water, how are | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
they managing to survive? We took wildlife expert Mike Dilger to meet | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
some of them. I regularly come down to the | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Somerset levels to spot wildlife. Down there is a nature reserve I | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
know really well. This time of year, I would expect to see thousands of | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
waders from all over Europe. All I can see is water. This | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
transformation over such a short space of time has had a devastating | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
impact on the animals and the people who work with them. In the valley | :13:35. | :13:43. | |
behind this village, Stokes and Gregory, this is a farm. This is | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
higher than it has ever been, ever recorded on West Sedgemoor. | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
Fortunately for you, you have high land and you have been able to take | :13:56. | :13:58. | |
cattle and cattle from further afield. Yes, the actual farm | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
buildings are all up I so that is great. And we have managed to take | :14:05. | :14:12. | |
some other farmers animals whose whole farm has become inundated But | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
for us, the land being inundated means there is a longer term | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
effects. Water may be the initial immediate problem but nobody knows | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
what they can dish and of the soil will be afterwards or how long the | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
water will take to recede. There are so many pumps working round the | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
clock to drain the Levels which are still not scratching the surface. A | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
lot of the farmers are saying that the water is still rising. We have | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
never seen it like this. In 60 years, we have never seen it. Tony | :14:46. | :14:51. | |
David's whole world is underwater. Home and farm inundated. `` Tony | :14:52. | :15:02. | |
David's. We will struggle. I the National Farmers Union supporting | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
you? Me and my father was talking about that. He is so disgusted with | :15:08. | :15:16. | |
him `` with them. We have had one phone call but no back`up. They have | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
had no help with the dredging. They haven't done anything for us. Tony | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
thinks it might be two months before he can return to its farm but it | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
might be longer before you can find out the quality of the soil he will | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
be left with. Strong criticism there. I will be | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
talking to the National Farmers Union. But first, we thought we | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
would show you this place in daylight. This is the main road into | :15:44. | :15:50. | |
Burrowbridge. Covered in water. And the waves are coming in. It is like | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
being on the beach. No wonder the people are so fearful about what | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
lies ahead. John Hebditch from the National Farmers Union is with me. | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
Some criticism of your organisation. Is it fair? I feel very sorry for | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
the individuals involved and we are doing our best. We have agents | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
working very hard to process claims and to organise fodder banks and | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
accommodation for cattle and sheep. But seven weeks on, this crisis is | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
clearly not over. We can't even see the beginning of the end. What is | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
the future hold for farmers? I think the future is quite grim and | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
everything that you can see, we should be grass, will be dead. It | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
will have to be re`sown, restarted. It will have to be done out of a | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
pocket that is not having an income. So what are farmers going to do | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
However going to go? With difficulty. They will need help and | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
I hope the NFU will help them get money out of the government. Thank | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
you for coming here today, by tractor! Thank you. | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
I know that is hard to hear and I can't really add to the good news at | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
the moment. I have come upstairs to the pub. The reason is it `` the | :17:14. | :17:20. | |
reason it is not good news is that there are other places that of | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
flooding. . In Gloucestershire there are now 14 flood warnings in place | :17:29. | :17:31. | |
and there are fears tomorrow ` after another day of rain ` some homes | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
could begin to flood. With the latest, here's Steve Knibbs. | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
This was a riverside caravan park ` now part of the river ` the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
electrical hook ups poke out of the water in the distance. With the | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Severn expected to rise ` the owners are once again on edge. Just packing | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
an overnight bag in case we do have to move out. The moment we think we | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
are almost safe, `` at the moment, we think we almost say. But not 100% | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
certain. You have to take each hour it comes. This is an area well used | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
to battening down the hatches. In Longford people are ready well in | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
advance. People are coping well They know the score. They watch | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
television and they have experienced 2007 floods as well. And the | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
sandbags keep on coming ` well over 1,500 have been delivered this week | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
in Tewkesbury Borough alone. It is important that the filled bags are | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
going to the right people. We are delivering sandbags to vulnerable | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
people. But not all of them seem to be staying put. These are | :18:36. | :18:37. | |
replacements for ones that disappeared. There have been about | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
one tonne taken away, stolen. The emergency services are ready, too. | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Today, fire crews trained to launch one of their boats in the choppy | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
swollen river at Gloucester ` with serious discussions taking place to | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
make sure the county is ready. Local resilience and protection teams are | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
looking at the contingency measures that will need to be put in place. | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
They are taking `` we want to take this opportunity to reassure people | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
we are doing all we can. And it s a good job the fire teams are well | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
trained ` this van driver on the Gloucestershire border had to be | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
rescued after thinking he'd make it along a flooded road next to the | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
River Wye. A risk that took up valuable time from the Welsh fire | :19:19. | :19:24. | |
crews sent in to get him. Let's bring you some other news | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
The former Bristol MP Tony Benn is seriously ill in hospital. The | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
88`year`old was admitted at the weekend. Tony Benn retired from | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
Parliament 13 years ago. Last October he gave television | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
interviews as the final instalment of his diaries was published. He | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
represented Bristol for 30 years, serving in two Labour governments. | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
Some sports news. Bristol City has become the first | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
football club in the UK to show off new rail seats ` which could allow | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
fans to stand at matches in the future. The club's hoping to install | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
some if the redevelopment of its current ground goes ahead this | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
summer. The idea of standing at matches has been contentious since | :20:04. | :20:05. | |
the Hillsborough disaster, but the club maintains the new rail seats | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
are safe. Two of Britain's best medal hopes at | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
the Winter Olympics will be competing tomorrow in the skeleton. | :20:15. | :20:17. | |
Lizzy Yarnold from Bath won this year's world cup series. She'll be | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
involved in the qualifying rounds along with current World Champion | :20:21. | :20:29. | |
Shelley Rudman from Pewsey. That is good news. If you want more today's | :20:30. | :20:37. | |
stories, you can watch Points West on the late bulletin. For now, back | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
to David. It is quite convivial at the bar in | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
the King Alfred. Nothing really prepares you from the chill that you | :20:51. | :20:59. | |
get from the floodwaters. Well in the last hour the first public | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
meeting about the flooding crisis in Somerset has got underway on the | :21:03. | :21:05. | |
outskirts of Bridgwater. Our reporter Scott Ellis is there. | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
A public meeting about to get underway in Bridgwater. A very small | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
turnout `` a very strong turnout. It is an opportunity for people to find | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
out what is being done to pump water away from the Moors. It means a | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
great deal to these people because many have been evacuated from their | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
homes in Moorland. They are very distressed and they want to know how | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
long it will be until that water is shifted and they can start to think | :21:31. | :21:34. | |
about moving back in and repairing their homes. It is a devastating | :21:35. | :21:43. | |
life experience. That's bad? Yes. There has been very little | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
communication. This is the sort of information being handed out. It | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
shows the extent of the album. The water is coming in this way. They | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
have built a dam to protect the south side of Bridgwater. This | :21:57. | :22:02. | |
pumping operation is going on outside. There is a map showing | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
where all the fault `` where all the pumps are working on the Levels | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
Some are not operating because of the bad weather. But you can see | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
that there is a huge turnout here. Several hundred people already. This | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
is a very critical time. People want to know how much longer before that | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
water starts receiving. The good news at the moment is that the water | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
on North Moore is holding. But more bad weather on the `` more bad | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
weather on the way. I joined now by David Heath, the MP | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
for Somerset and friends. `` Somerset and fruit. You have been | :22:44. | :22:51. | |
talking to the Prime Minister. We have got some money for farmers | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
that is good news. We have money for businesses. The rate rebate for the | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
time that the floods are on plus some deferred tax payments. But most | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
importantly, I got the finance minister `` I got an agreement to | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
meet me and my colleagues when we have a long`term plan which includes | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
dredging but also land management and possibly a sluice on the River | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
parrot barrage. We will go through it and make sure we get the cash to | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
do the job properly. The National Farmers Union told me that they are | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
worried about what happens when the water is gone. The land will be | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
dead, the animals will be disbursed, the farmers will have no business, | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
how will they survive? I hope this money will go some way to helping | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
them through a difficult period There is a loss of kindness, forage | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
is coming in from the other side of the country to help people feed | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
their animals. But there will be a difficulty because just like last | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
year, when the land was under water for a long time, there is no pastor, | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
we have not been able to drill. So farmers will not be able to carry on | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
their business. They will rely on this cash coming in but also, the | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
fact that the banks have agreed to be helpful as well. Banks are not | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
always helpful but they will be in this circumstance. I guess they are | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
in the centre of a national spotlight. But now the Thames Valley | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
is beginning to floods and that will take over at the top of the news | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
agenda. These people may be forgotten. They must not be. I have | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
a commitment from the Prime Minister. I think he is very engaged | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
with us here. It is what we have been arguing for four months. To | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
make `` we have been arguing for, for months. To make sure that we | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
have helped because the Somerset levels are a unique environment | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
Thank you for joining me in the pub this evening. | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
I have to say it was awful weather today. You know that as well as we | :25:06. | :25:08. | |
do. Now the weather. It wouldn't take much to have an | :25:09. | :25:20. | |
improvement in the weather compared to the atrocious British `` | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
conditions of today. It is a better day tomorrow but still blustery | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
There will also be showers around and some could be wintry in places. | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
Taking a retrospective look at the strength of the wind across the | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
West. These are the speeds. Look across to the mumbles on the south | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
side of Wales and close to 100 miles per hour. So we dodged a bullet in | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
terms of the position of that area of low pressure. It is still causing | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
chaos up in the north`west. Our next problem is the threat of hail, sleet | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
and snow tonight. We have a Met Office weather warning. It will be a | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
localised problem. Tomorrow, barring some showers, it will be a better | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
day. Nowhere near as windy. Shell is moving into night and they will show | :26:18. | :26:25. | |
a tendency to give some snow. After three centimetres of snow starting | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
to fall to the east of Bristol. Bath, North East Somerset, the M4 | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
corridor. Perhaps a few other spots. It is difficult to localise until we | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
see is unfolding on the radar. It will be a cold night. Be wary of icy | :26:42. | :26:48. | |
stretches tomorrow. The wind is still a feature through the morning | :26:49. | :26:52. | |
but it will become less so in the afternoon. Certainly compared to | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
today. But a blustery day nonetheless. It will feel cold. At | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
least some sunshine to go with it. Temperatures tomorrow between 6 | :27:02. | :27:08. | |
Celsius and seven Celsius. On Friday, further Met Office yellow | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
warning for rain and strong winds. You can see that low moving in from | :27:16. | :27:16. | |
the south`west. It is not good news. We are not shocked by that, but | :27:17. | :27:31. | |
thank you for the full cost. It is dying down, but still cold and | :27:32. | :27:39. | |
breezy. I had a dream that I had a bloke inside who dreamt about | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
sandbags! That is where we have to leave it tonight. | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
For people here, | :27:46. | :27:47. |