Some awesome images popping up on geograph covering the floods (for example, see thread, registration required). A particular sequence taken by Jonathan Billinger shows how swiftly things can change for the worse…
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20th July 2007, 5:12pm – Evesham Waterside hotel. The river Avon is over the road… |
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20th July 2007, 6:28pm – a little over an hour later, and the road is flooded but a brave driver might just make it!. |
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20th July 2007, 8:03pm – after 3 hours though, the road is impassable and the hotel is starting to flood. How bad can it get you wonder? |
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21st July 2007, 5:51am – you wake up early the next morning and this sight greets you! The water is still rising too… |
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21st July 2007, 1:51pm – less than 24 hours have passed and the water level peaks. |
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22nd July 2007, 7:04am – the next morning, and the waters are starting to recede. |
There’s always an inescapable voyeurism with natural disasters like this, and while I feel for those affected by the floods, you can’t help but see images like this and say “wow!”
Thank you for putting my images into sequence, Paul. At least I stayed dry, fed and entertained (a modem, a camera, a laptop, and a sustained power source) for the 36 hours of incarceration in the Northwick.
I can walk away and carry on with my life; the owner told me that she would have to take the next 10 months to repair the damage before reopening her doors for business again. She and countless others too!