Windermere Marina, Cumbria, Flood !
The boss has a yacht in Windermere Marina Village and went up this morning to check if it was still afloat following the recent flooding in Cumbria.
Fortunately it was – but some people have been less fortunate…………..
The problem was that the boats are moored to fixed pontoons which do not go up as the water rises. The mooring ropes therefore dragged some of the boats under.
All praise to the staff in the marina, they must have had the most stressful weekend of their lives and have done an amazing job to minimise the destruction.
The marina is closed and the ground floor flats surrounding the marina are all flood damaged, as the following youtube video shows:
The Westmorland Gazette reports around 20 boats as having sunk!
Some clever mathematicians out there will be able to calculate the biblical volume of water that could cause Windermere, a lake 12 miles long and a mile wide (at the widest point) to rise by 8 feet.
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