Flooding 'may put lives at risk'?

Wild excitement, and local at that: A tidal surge in the North Sea has sparked severe flood warnings and evacuations on England's east coast. We shall see.

[Update: it was a bust -W]

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EA has a few severe flood warnings out. You can watch the tides here:

http://www.pol.ac.uk/ntslf/networks.html

OT: you should see if you can get to see the stoat footage from this evening's Autumnwatch. Quite entertaining.