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the oppression of one by another. The sun shall never set on so | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
glorious a human achievement. Good evening and welcome to BBC Look | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
North, live tonight from the banks of the Humber. Here on Hessle | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
Foreshore are just some of the homes and businesses still clearing up | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
after the flood. The headlines tonight. From the air it's clear to | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
see the damage caused by the biggest tidal surge for more than 60 years. | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
In Boston, sea defences were breached flooding the town centre | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
and forcing 200 people to leave their homes. Totally unprecedented. | :00:31. | :00:45. | |
I have lived in Boston for years and I have never seen the river as high | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
as it is now. In Hull, parts of the city centre were turned into a sea | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
water lake leaving businesses to pick up the pieces. The sea defences | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
protected us from the worst, but already tonight questions are being | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
asked ` were we well enough prepared? No sandbags at all. I rang | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
the council at 4pm, no reply. Nobody knows what to do. No warning. I will | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
be looking at the science behind what it our region and whether it | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
followed the pattern is predicted. We still have the risk of some | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
flooding in coastal areas this evening, but the weather will be | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
much more settled. Tonight homes and businesses across | :01:27. | :01:40. | |
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are struggling to get back to normal | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
after being hit by the biggest tidal surge for 60 years. Hundreds of | :01:44. | :01:48. | |
people were forced from their homes including several here on Hessle | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
Foreshore. These pictures from this morning show the spot where I'm | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
actually standing now. You can see just how much water there was on the | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
road. This was the scene last night as rescue workers tried to help the | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
people living here in the houses that overlook the Humber. Well, in | :02:07. | :02:14. | |
Hull parts of the city centre this morning looked like a lake as sea | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
water from the Humber flooded into the streets. The main A63 road was | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
closed until lunchtime and all this is a city where the memory of the | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
floods in 2007 are still raw. With more here's our correspondent Paul | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
Murphy. Everyone's desirable Hessle called | :02:39. | :02:46. | |
the slack. Chewed up and spat out by the Humber. It is much brown now, | :02:47. | :02:58. | |
there was no warning here. There was no warning given to residents. All | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
of a sudden, a man came streaming down from Humber Whiskey and said, | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
get out. The speed and ferocity of the tidal surge took everyone by | :03:12. | :03:20. | |
surprise. We were rescuing people from cars. | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
There were 300 cars floating around. Many businesses in Hull were hoping | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
for Christmas shoppers, instead, the court sea water. It is normally the | :03:35. | :03:43. | |
busiest time of the year for us. In Bridlington, even those accustomed | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
to the sea were shocked. See defences were over tops, but most | :03:49. | :03:59. | |
homes escape the water. We are hoping that somebody up there likes | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
us. Then came the now being loss of all power and light in Hull city | :04:05. | :04:13. | |
centre. The lights went out and we could not close the shop, so we had | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
to wait around and by the time we were able to leave, the water was | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
coming up. It came earlier than we expected and before high tide, we | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
had lots of areas of the city breached. With the sea came fish. | :04:28. | :04:37. | |
The Watergate into the hotel, came down the corridor, came into the | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
room is. The road and rail disruption in and out of Hull | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
continued through the morning. The damage to her, even to a sailing | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
club, will run into millions. But it was not a catastrophe. The city's | :04:58. | :05:07. | |
tidal surge barrier did its job. Paul Clark lives in one of the | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
houses behind me. What was it like this time last night? We were in | :05:15. | :05:20. | |
three feet of water. What happened to the properties here? The water | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
rushed up the building. We had about two minutes notice when I spotted | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
the water coming onto the road. We quickly got oceans and towels and | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
blankets and push them at the doors. Our neighbours rallied together and | :05:42. | :05:49. | |
we put one person up overnight. Did you panic? No, but we were in shock. | :05:50. | :05:57. | |
Have some people had to move out and how long for? All the people on the | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
bottom have had to move out, so that is half of the residents. They will | :06:04. | :06:11. | |
probably be gone for six months. And you have lost your car? I looked | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
out of the window at about 8:30pm and my car was floating around in | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
the car back with the other cars. That is horrific. Honestly, there | :06:25. | :06:32. | |
was so much water. It is a right of. The insurance company rang me this | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
morning and said my car would be written off, because it has been | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
flooded. They cannot clean it. Thank you for coming out and talking to us | :06:44. | :06:47. | |
tonight. I'm joined now by Nigel Leighton from East Riding of | :06:48. | :06:54. | |
Yorkshire Council. Are you satisfied you did everything you could to | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
protect people 's homes last night? A lot of preparation was put in | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
place during the course of the day, working along side colleagues in the | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
fire service and the police service. People have said they did not get | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
enough whining. The forecast we were working to suggest it the majority | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
of the problems would be on the South bank and as such, we had to | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
prepare ourselves. You saying you got the wrong information? No, I am | :07:29. | :07:35. | |
seeing the extent of the surge in particular locations was impossible | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
to predict. Many people in Bridlington had their property | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
damaged on the seafront under warranty to know what you can do to | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
help. We're now moving into phase. We're not just talking about one | :07:54. | :08:03. | |
community, there are several. We have several areas to help, as | :08:04. | :08:14. | |
system in the recovery phase. And sandbags? I have had so many | :08:15. | :08:23. | |
messages. Beware prepared with sandbags on our vehicles ready to go | :08:24. | :08:30. | |
to any location. I am not aware of any complaints. We had lots of | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
compliments about the speed of our reaction, given that we did not know | :08:37. | :08:45. | |
where to go at first. Thank you very much. We would like to hear from you | :08:46. | :08:54. | |
if you want to get in touch with your | :08:55. | :09:09. | |
I look forward to hearing from you as always. | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
The Isle of Axeholme may be more than forty miles from the sea, but | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
it's sandwiched between the Humber, the Ouse and the Trent. Last night | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
those living there felt the force of water from all three. Small village | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
communities that worked together to help one another. Simon Spark has | :09:31. | :09:38. | |
their story. This expands of water in the winter | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
and should be farmland, and it is what these horses were grazing on | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
until the storm surge hit. This morning, after being stranded or | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
might, the rescue attempt began. It took these RSPCA officers hours to | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
coax them to safety. Farmers battled for hours are trying to save their | :10:04. | :10:12. | |
stock. You go in and do your best. It was horrendous. Fears of another | :10:13. | :10:20. | |
high tide and another flooding prompted police to knock on the | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
doors of those most at risk. I don't want to go, but my wife wants to | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
go, and it will keep my children happy. Have you slept? No, I have | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
been up all night and I am absolutely shattered. Buses were on | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
stand`by and this was a. Because of the tide had damaged the bank, | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
flooding the houses with immense speed. There is an 8`point gap on | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
the other side of the walls with it is coming under the concrete. This | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
morning, we are expecting the same again. Environment Agency teams | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
built a sand bag barrier, but it was not required. In Scunthorpe, people | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
sought shelter for the second time. We got evacuated by the police at | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
6:30am. This was a nightmare for landlords, for drivers stuck on | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
country roads and four people temporarily seeking shelter | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
elsewhere. It may have been a sleepless night, but it was one of | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
everybody helped each other. In Boston, hundreds of people have been | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
returning to their homes to start the clean up after water surged into | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
the town. Around 200 people spent last night | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
in emergency accommodation and the iconic Boston stump suffered | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
significant damage. Jake Zuckerman reports. | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
As the sun rose over Boston Stump, police and residents watched every | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
level is nervously. High tide passed without further flooding, but for | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
those already affected, the clean`up got underway. Last night was | :12:14. | :12:19. | |
terrible. In ten minutes, our house was full of water. Dirty water. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
Everything was swimming. This was the scene in Boston last night as | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
the six foot surge topped the town's defences. In total, at around | :12:33. | :12:44. | |
200 properties were flooded. We tried to get sandbags, there were | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
none at all. I rang the council at four o'clock, no reply. Nobody knows | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
what to do. Disaster. This is totally unprecedented. I have lived | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
in Boston for over 20 years and I have never seen the river as high as | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
it is now. Water came in through the west door | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
by the river. Up to about a foot deep. It went out again as quickly | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
as it came in. Our problem is our centres, where our borders are, I | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
have water, so that is a great tool of damage underneath the building. | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
Here there are marks which shall levels of high water during previous | :13:35. | :13:39. | |
clubs. The water level last night was the highest they have ever seen | :13:40. | :13:43. | |
at this point. The other night, emergency services and planners | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
coordinated the response from the command centre in Lincoln. We have | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
been rehearsing for these incidents since the 2007 floods. This is a | :13:53. | :14:01. | |
well rehearsed operation and as far as we can tell, we will do a | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
structured debrief later, but we have done what we rehearsed to do. | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
More than 200 people were evacuated from their homes and spent the night | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
at the barracks in Grantham. I wanted to cry at one point, because | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
I was so scared and I didn't know what to do with the dogs. As | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
floodwaters receded, streets of Boston were left strewn with rubbish | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
and mud. Residents must now clean`up after the worst flooding in 60 | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
years. Jake is live in Boston tonight. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
People are heading back to their homes tonight and starting to clear | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
up, what's the feeling in the town tonight? | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
It is quite a contrast here between the Christmas lights above me and on | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
the ground. The people here who are coming now to clear up. The speed | :14:54. | :15:02. | |
and ferocity of the floodwater took some by surprise, but many people | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
will feel it could have been much worse. 200 homes were flooded, but | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
the experts say if the water had been just four inches higher, there | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
would have been multiple features in the town's flood defences and that | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
would have been far more serious. Earlier today, I spoke to the local | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
MP. He told me this shows how vitally important plans for a new | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
flood barrier for the town are. It says he will be lobbying hard and | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
working to make sure that goes ahead as soon as possible. | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
Thank you very much. We say good evening to those rescued last night. | :15:43. | :15:54. | |
People here have had to move out and they will be out for six months. | :15:55. | :16:02. | |
Amazing night. We have more to come. Still ahead tonight. The science | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
behind what caused the biggest tidal surge for 60 years. And how your | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
pictures told the story of how the floods hit East Yorkshire and | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
Lincolnshire You've been sending your photos of the scene Ross | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Coupland was in Boston last night as the water flooded into Skirbeck Road | :16:17. | :16:19. | |
he sent these pictures before it became impassable and the road | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
remains closed this evening This morning Lee Beel in South Ferriby | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
took this picture of the damage and standing water. | :16:26. | :16:52. | |
The road remains closed this evening. This morning Lee Beel in | :16:53. | :17:10. | |
South Ferriby took this picture of the damage and standing water. Dave | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Lascelles in Mablethorpe sent this of the central promenade covered in | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
debris. And this shot of the closed A63 in Hull came from Paul Noble. | :17:17. | :17:28. | |
Really strange this morning wondering around hearing of the | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
silence. It is normally very noisy. Let's get the weather forecast. | :17:40. | :17:52. | |
Check the Environment Agency website for specific details. This weekend, | :17:53. | :18:01. | |
the weather should improve. Largely tried with sunny spells. `` largely | :18:02. | :18:09. | |
dry`mac. This evening, and outbreaks of rain | :18:10. | :18:24. | |
and there could be sweet and wet snow, mainly over the hills. That is | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
going to give us a risk of icy stretches. Tomorrow morning, the sun | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
will rise just after 8am. Watch out for PC stretches. | :18:38. | :18:54. | |
Temperatures will rise through the day. Decent spells of sunshine | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
across Lincolnshire, just the risk of the occasional shower. | :19:00. | :19:12. | |
Temperatures improving. The breeze is fairly moderate from the | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
south`west. High pressure continues to dominate. Temperatures rising to | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
11 degrees on Sunday. It will be breezy, but mostly dry`mac. | :19:24. | :19:38. | |
This tree was uprooted and there is rubbish everywhere. A lot of people | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
in these houses have had to move out. The tidal surge which swept | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
down the east coast was the biggest for 60 years, bigger than the one in | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
1953 that killed more than 300 people. So what caused the rise in | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
sea level that damaged homes and property across East Yorkshire and | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Lincolnshire? Caroline Bilton reports. | :20:00. | :20:09. | |
It had all the ingredients of a perfect storm, low pressure, strong | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
winds and high spring tides. East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire was put | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
on high alert. I would urge everybody to pay close attention to | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
the advice and warnings from the Environment Agency. Although it is | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
of no comfort to those whose homes and businesses have been flooded, it | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
could have been a lot worse. Hull's tidal barrier did its job and it | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
protected homes and businesses from flooding. Some places we thought | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
would be hit badly seemed to speak the worst. So what happened here and | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
what was it `` was at the same as the predicted? Had we had an | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
easterly or north`easterly gale, that would've made it considerably | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
worse. What is needed for a perfect storm. He needs a strong wind | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
blowing in a straight line across the North Sea. That pushes a lot of | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
water in the direction of the southern portion of the North Sea | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
and creates this branch of water. That is the storm surge. At exactly | :21:19. | :21:27. | |
that time, very high spring tides need to power. It is also our | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
geography that conspired against us. If you look at the North Sea, it is | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
like a final shape and there is water that comes into a financially. | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
We are just in the wrong place. Not only do we have this in the shape of | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
the North Sea, we have the Vichy of the Humber. In the storm in 1953, | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
hundreds of people were killed. It is a sobering thought that what | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
happened yesterday was worse, but this time we were prepared. Well, as | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
we've just seen in Caroline Bilton's report as events unfolded last night | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
concern quickly shifted from the coast to towns and villages | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
alongside tidal rivers like the Trent and the Witham and to the | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
Humber Estuary itself. We can get a better idea of how | :22:19. | :22:21. | |
extensive the flooding is by looking at these aerial pictures. As the | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
camera pulls out from the Humber Bridge you can clearly see the | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
estuary as it sweeps round towards Goole taking us over the village of | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
South Ferriby. It's clear that there's still a lot of water on the | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
roads and many homes have been flooded. You can even see work going | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
on to pump out that flood water. The cement works are like an island in | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
the middle of a lake. You can see Brough in the distance here and get | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
an idea of how near the water got to that town. The building completely | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
surrounded is the Welton Waters sailing club. It's a landscape | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
that's been changed by the events of the past 24 hours. Some | :23:09. | :23:19. | |
extravagantly pictures. Over the last day or so, you have been | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
sharing your experiences in pictures and e`mails and texts and we thank | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
you for all of them. The number of texts to the radio stations was | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
phenomenal. Just a selection of them. | :23:40. | :24:25. | |
The main national and regional headlines. Tributes pour in for the | :24:26. | :24:33. | |
man described as the greatest leader of our times. Homes and businesses | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
across East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are beginning to | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
clean`up after the biggest tidal surge in 60 years. Tomorrow's | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
weather forecast, not as cold as it has been. Top temperatures getting | :24:47. | :24:56. | |
up to around eight Celsius. Returning to our main story | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
tonight, what more can you tell us about some more evacuations? | :25:03. | :25:12. | |
Yes, it is still not over. The sea defence south of Boston has been | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
damaged. Repairs are taking place, but they are trying to evacuate | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
people from their homes there. It has really surprised a lot of | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
people. When we talked to the authorities | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
privately, they are quite shaken by this. They are surprised and shocked | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
by the ferocity and speed of this. They know the whole rule book to do | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
with these kind of events has been torn up, so it is difficult to | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
predict what will happen in the future. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
Thank you very much for watching the events of the past 24 hours. It | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
brought communities together and showed nature in full force. You | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
have been sending your photos of your experiences. Here are just a | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
few of them as we chart the progress of the tidal surge as it brought | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
havoc to our area. Thank you very much for the pictures and thank you | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
for watching. Have a safe and peaceful weekend. I will see you on | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
Monday. He urged people to be prepared. It | :26:23. | :26:33. | |
is very close now. It is only going to be another 510 minutes before | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
this road is inundated with saltwater. Sea levels are rising, it | :26:37. | :26:48. | |
is now the same level as the pavement. I would say go bust when | :26:49. | :26:55. | |
it was at the docks, because of the docks flood, it is straight over. If | :26:56. | :27:05. | |
it starts to come to fire on I don't know what might happen. It has | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
gathered in these lower lying areas and further along the Humber, the | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
problems are continuing. Try and ask people to move upstairs. Women | :27:19. | :27:25. | |
affected twice in 2007, so this is the third time it has happened to my | :27:26. | :27:33. | |
family. Everyone would suggest this could not possibly happen. Pretty | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
hopeless, I think. But we have to try and get in and seem this age of | :27:38. | :27:45. | |
the house. It is a timely | :27:46. | :27:52. |