Windy B and Ian Stephenson are not flooded. I remembered them being badly affected a few years ago, but apparently that was after the flood bank had been damaged. He's just told me that they've closed the A19 just south of the Jug again as it is under about 2 feet of water. The police let him through and then pulled the Land Rovers across. I also heard on the news this morning that the police had been going round the villages of Beal and Birkin, which are just upstream of the Aire from here, during the night, advising residents that they may be evacuated. If it wasn't for the higher road out of the village to the south, I think we'd soon be living on an island!

Andrea