A Brief Timetable of the Flooding

• Wednesday 8 April
  It rained all day very heavily on Warwickshire
  
• Thursday 9 April
  and it continued raining for all of the following day as well.
  
• In the late afternoon on Thursday the river Avon's level had risen so high that it was lapping onto the pub carpark of the Four Alls by the Binton Road bridge in Welford-on-Avon. Over the other side of the bridge the water was already very deep but vehicles could still cross.
  
• At 8pm on Thursday I walked down to the river. Some cars were still managing to cross but there were many people who had been travelling for hours longer than they usually had to who seemed stranded.
• By 9pm only 4x4s were safely making it across but by
• 10pm the river levels had reached such a level that only the heaviest duty vehicles (fire engines etc.) could still traverse. The last car driver (a white Mondeo) to attempt it abandoned his vehicle when it started to float. The last 4x4 broke down in the river and its owners pushed it across. By the time I left the bridge I had to wade through water above my knees where only 2 hours earlier I'd hardly got my shoes wet. (That water was bloody cold and gave me cramp in both legs)
  
  
• 11pm the fire brigade were attempting rescue people trapped in their homes on the first floor. They even investigated our dinghy - but it was deemed unsafe. It wasn't until
• 1.30am that a proper boat could be brought to the village to rescue the occupants. At that time water had totally covered the field behind our house and our neighbour's garden as shown in this view.
  
  
  
• On Friday the fire brigade were in action again helping to rescue stranded sheep. A search and rescue helicopter landed in the village at one point, but its services were not required.
  
• Saturday found the main route into the village still blocked and it was not until
  
• Sunday morning that the floodwaters had subsided enough for the damage to be assessed. Needless to say many of the properties in the village suffered flood damage, however it was the mobile home park by the river that was worst affected.