There were some sarcastic comments on 10 Sept 06 from "GUEST Salopian" about my mentioning floods in Shrewsbury on one of my 'SeeRed' webpages. Here are his/her comments:

Re floods.
There hasn't been a flood in the town of Shrewsbury since the flood defences were installed. It may have been true a few years ago, but to say the County Ground can be under a metre of water is pretty silly....after all the council have just spent millions on a new Guild Hall at Frankwell (a hundred yards from the County Ground), so you'd have thought it would have been one safest places to be!

Here is a link that might work to the flood photos in the Frankwell Car Park 8 December 2006

http://www.shropshirestar.co.uk/2006/12/latest-flood-photos/2/

A picture says a thousand words??

Here is part of a report from the Shropshire Star:

In Shrewsbury, Frankwell car park was covered with water, but residents said the state-of-the-art flood defences at the Welsh Bridge appeared to be working and they had escaped the floods so far. The Gay Meadow football pitch, home of Shrewsbury Town, has also missed the floods.A spokesman for the club saying that there are just a few pools of water on the pitch.

River levels at the Welsh Bridge were at 3.72m at 8am, with areas of the River Severn still under a flood warning. During the 2000 floods, the peak was 5.25m.

Fiona Russell, of Haughmond View, said that she had never seen so many cars get caught in the floods as there were at Frankwell car park last night.