Am I alone in wondering about the levels of inaccuracy in the reporting of the recent flood in Tenbury.
I missed most of the radio and TV reports, but was getting calls and messages from friends and family who expected to find us under water.
News even reached Sri lanka were Richard Burt issued a press release based on what he heard.
To read the 'flashes' coming up on the e-media and to read some of the reports in today's papers you have to start thinking that they must be talking about somewhere else.
At one point the BBC and others were claiming that Tenbury had been evacuated.
From the Times: "In Worcestershire, parts of Tenbury Wells town centre were evacuated and a refuge centre opened after the Kyre Brook broke its banks"
Sure the emergency centre at St Michael's was opened, but I'm not sure if anyone went there. If you live the other side of the Market Tavern you would have been out of luck anyway.
It is probably sensible to close the road to stop the wake from vehicles washing into shops, but the water was never deep enough to actually stop a car, unless driven by the most inept driver.
By closing the road so early, I wonder how much 'rat running' of country lanes caused more damage.
Reports that the A456 was closed continued well into Saturday night, but I spoke to several people who claimed it was still open.
Even as I write this (on Sunday afternoon) teletext still says
"A456, Tenbury Wells Road closed due to flooding both ways at A4112 Teme Street"
For Tenbury the EA flood warnings for the River Teme seems to have been correct, but some area's down stream flooded whilst still on Flood Watch. The system seems to have too few sensors to be very accurate. If we can't have defenses then at least give us a warning system that works, and extend it to the Brooks that are known to be prone to flooding.
As usual I welcome your comments.
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How right!! i work in worcester and found it difficult to get accurate info on the roads around tenbury, even half an hour ago the worcester news web site reports the tenbury road as closed!! unbeleivable, ive just got home from work and all seemed fine to me, what is it with our wonderfull town that makes us have such poor information!!
Even Malvern Hills District Council seems to be confused. They issued a statement on Monday saying that early on Saturday morning they sent a team to Tenbury to clean the place up. Really? So how did they get here, when did they arrive, when did they leave, what did they do, and how many people were in the team? The Fire Service hosed the streets down, not Malvern Hills District Council. The Council should not try to take credit for work that was carried out by our firemen.
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