13/01/2017 Look East


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I'm Katherine Nash. for the news where you are.

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More now on the threat flooding on the east coast.

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In the last hour, Norfolk has narrowly escaped flood water

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as high tide came and went without breaching sea walls.

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The Environment Agency has issued 17 severe warnings across the region.

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It's because of a combination of a high tide, strong

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In the next two hours the focus falls on the Suffolk

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Alex Dunlop is in Great Yarmouth for us now,

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Very much so, I am at the Ormiston venture Academy, one of the

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emergency centres set up to take in the evacuees and here there are

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about 400 contingency places but only three people have turned up,

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two ladies, little girl, more volunteers than evacuees if you

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like, which I guess is good news. I was down at the river about half an

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you can see people still at the last you can see people still at the last

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moment where putting sand in sandbags and people were taking a

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look at the Riverside, more like tourists, really, looking at the

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rising water. It reached about two feet below the river wall but it

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looks like the worst is over. We have been told that none of the

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river walls have been breached. Norfolk police told me that the did

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a knock of -- a knock around of around 5000 properties and only

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about 60% of people said they would come to the centres and they asked

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the head of Norfolk Fire and rescue if he was concerned that some of the

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people decided to stay at home. It does cause a problem for us because

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if the worst happens but we have seen the flooding elsewhere it means

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we are the people who have to go and get them and that can cause a big

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problem. The other problem we can have is people who decide they want

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to have a look and see what is going on and put themselves at risk. We do

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not have the resources to deal with that -- we have to dedicate the

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sauce to dealing with that instead of putting them where we need to

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evacuate people. Is the worst over? Yes, the worst is over. Now we can

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with outstanding centres down. And we can thank everyone who helped us

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in this period. The volunteers, the army and Fire Service. I'd back you

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do not think you overreacted? We don't ever believe that, if we had a

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breach they would have been so happy to have those people there to help

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them. Have other high tide coming, is the worst over? The worst is

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over, this was the high tide for search. Eventually for everyone

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involved. Many thanks. You can catch up with more on BBC online.

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In Suffolk the Bascule Bridge in Lowestoft was closed tonight

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and so was the town's railway station.

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In Southwold high tide is expected in about half

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an hour, making its way down the coast to Felixtowe by 12.30.

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Kevin Burch has spent the day at Felixstowe Ferry

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to see how the village has been preparing for

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For the people here at Felixstowe Ferry because of where they live

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just a few hundred feet from the North Sea, even closer to the river

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at the ST which trend back and they know all about the threat from

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flooding, I tide was at midday and before that people were saying the

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water would not get up to the levels we saw in 2013. Of course it is this

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tide later they were worried about, but people see they have done what

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they can and moved possessions and equipment as high as they can and

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they will see what comes. As one person said it is what you expect

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living on the coast. If you don't like it then moved to a town.

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Meanwhile in Essex, high tide is expected after midnight.

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I could hit Harwich at 12.30, and Southend just

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Our Chief Reporter Kim Riley has spent the day in Jaywick,

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where thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.

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The tide is due to peak at quarter to one in the morning.

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This afternoon the emergency services were gathering ahead of a

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concerted evacuation programme, fire crews and police are visiting homes,

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advising people to get to safety. Hazel who would knew the sea wall

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was planning to return to a rest centre. They told us that is going

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to be quite bad tonight. I have just come home to have a cup of tea and

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something to eat. I have stuck things out before so we will see how

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things go. I will remain until the things go. I will remain until the

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first high tide and probably for an hour or so a comeback. Several

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hundred people spent the night at the rest centre, many signing in

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with their pets like Gloria with her dog Bonnie. Joyce Holloway is here

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with him neighbour. We are going home having registered, going home

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and having something to eat and getting ready to come back this

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evening for, the Toledo is safe to go back all. That is the worry,

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isn't it, that everyone has been put through. And when you get to our aid

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you don't want these worries. The police search and rescue unit at

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Essex search and rescue volunteers are around as the hours tick away,

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to the next high tide just after midnight.

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or want the latest information you can call the Floodline

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There's also more on the local pages of the BBC News Website.

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And both BBC Radio Norfolk and Suffolk are broadcasting

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I'll leave you with the weekend forecast now, here's Dan Holley.

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A lot of whether to talk about, of course we had some snow this morning

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and for the winter showers continuing in Norfolk. The strong

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northerly winds creating the big waves that we have seemed down the

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Norfolk coast. A tented travelling to the Suffolk and Essex coast will

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the next 2-3 hours. We have had a few wintry showers across parts of

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north and east Norfolk and they will continue overnight and many other

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areas becoming dry with clear spells and terrible cloud. Breezy but low

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enough temperature wise for the ice to appear first thing tomorrow and

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-2 -3 in some places. A lot of dry weather tomorrow, with spells of

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sunshine and it will be more cloudy across Norfolk and the Suffolk.

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Further snow showers feeding inland and the snow could be a couple

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centimetres in places. Temperatures will be three or 4 degrees when you

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add on the wind, not the strongest today. Cold start to Sunday, rain

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moving into the Atlantic, snow and the leading edge of that and

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eventually turning back to rain, it will be cold the Anthony C cloud and

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outbreaks rain with temperatures of 45 degrees. Monday looking guy,

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lovely side to buy the, looking chilly with the risk of overnight

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frost. 5-6 is the best we will have. It

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stays cold into the beginning of next week as well

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