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Caravan park flooded and five rescued from trapped car as more rain hits Hampshire (From Daily Echo)
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Caravan park flooded and five rescued from trapped car as more rain hits Hampshire
5:50pm Tuesday 25th December 2012 in News
By Patrick Knox, Senior Reporter
Hampshire on Christmas Day flood alert
A caravan park was flooded and five people rescued from a trapped car as more rains hit Hampshire today.
The drama came as wind and rain swept across the county, and the Environment Agency issued 28 flood alerts in the south, including six in Hampshire.
The worst hit areas are in Hursley, Soberton, Droxford, Meonstoke, Corhampton, Exton, Warnford, West Meon and East Meon.
Bishops Sutton, Hambleton and Kings Somborne and Little Somborne are also on flooding alert.
Meanwhile, this afternoon five people had to be rescued after they drove into a flooded road in Laundry Lane, Heckfield, near Hook, at 1pm.
Firefighters used rafts to rescue them after the car became submerged.
Elsewhere, fire crews spent three hours pumping water from Solent Breezes Caravan Park in Chilling Lane, Warsash.
No residents at the park, part of which was under more than a metre of water, were affected by the flood.
At Titchfield the ground floor of two homes in Hewitt Close were flooded after drains over-flowed during intense rainfall this morning.
Residents moved upstairs while crews pumped the water out of their homes.
David Jordan, director of operations at the agency, said: "Although the rain is set to ease a little in the coming days, the ground is still very wet and river levels remain high, so we would ask people to keep up to date with the latest warnings and stay prepared for flooding."
The Met Office has predicted that tommorow, sunny intervals are predicted in the morning with heavy rain returning in the afternoon.
Figures suggest the soggy Christmas is set to make 2012 the wettest years since records began in 1910.
Before this month, the average rainfall for the year was 1,202mm, which is 13th in the list of wettest years.
Comments(14)
10 Minute Man
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3:03pm Tue 25 Dec 12
IronLady2010
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3:27pm Tue 25 Dec 12
S Pance
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6:23pm Tue 25 Dec 12
Stillness
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6:34pm Tue 25 Dec 12
IronLady2010 wrote:I think you will find the "heavy wind" was at 12:12 today. The first post on this story.
I predict that there will be some heavy winds to follow in March!
Buntylicious
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6:40pm Tue 25 Dec 12
Stillness
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6:41pm Tue 25 Dec 12
Buntylicious wrote:Too much information :-(
I've got heavy wind after eating too many brussel sprouts!
J.P.M
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7:56pm Tue 25 Dec 12
freefinker
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12:46am Wed 26 Dec 12
southy wrote:.. could that be followed by a thaw?
And after the floods comes the snow
And perhaps some sunshine, a bit more rain, warmer temperatures as we approach spring, a few setbacks before we reach hotter weather in summer, showers of course, getting cooler in autumn, before we hit a cold spell in winter once again.
No, surely not? It's never happened before.
Pogle
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12:45pm Wed 26 Dec 12
J.P.M wrote:Was this just a random comment?
Why do these tax dodgers hide on trailer parks?
What the fcuk did this have to do with the price of eggs?
IronLady2010
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8:18pm Wed 26 Dec 12
Pogle wrote:Now you're all confusing me! What does the price of eggs have to do with the article?
J.P.M wrote:Was this just a random comment?
Why do these tax dodgers hide on trailer parks?
What the fcuk did this have to do with the price of eggs?
Pikey Pete
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8:37pm Wed 26 Dec 12
What were they Ducks?
sarfhamton
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8:11am Thu 27 Dec 12
IronLady2010 wrote:It's a holiday park with some holiday and some residential caravans. The vans affected were holiday ones.
Pogle wrote:Now you're all confusing me! What does the price of eggs have to do with the article?
J.P.M wrote:Was this just a random comment?
Why do these tax dodgers hide on trailer parks?
What the fcuk did this have to do with the price of eggs?
pikeyduck12
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9:37am Fri 28 Dec 12
and to say that no residents were affected is just pure rubbish .... 3 familys lost there homes and all of there possesions and 2 familys lost there cars the park was in at least 4 ft of water... and 4 fire crews battled on christmas day to pump as much water out as possible, think its sick how ppl just laugh and joke when actually we were in a very serious situation with major flooding,my heart goes out to all the "DUCKS" that lost there homes christams.....
southy says...
12:12pm Tue 25 Dec 12