The Buzz word for today is "Wow". We were told that flooding only takes place every 400 years in Sheffield but once again, there is a slight mis-calculation of about 390 years as the place is suffering high river water levels and road flooding in many places in the City with major problems with both traffic and even to the point that the Supertram has been affected.
Below are a few short videos from the last time we suffered this fate in Sheffield and fortunately accidents and injuries were down to a minimum but sadly one very young boy playing by a river in millhouses park was washed away and drown.
The building to the left & right in this picture was made famous by Mr Tony Blair who suggested that Forgemasters (the buildings in reference) were being conned by Iraq who were in fact making the worlds biggest guns and placed an order with Forgemasters for Gas pipes to which Mr Blair said was huge gun barrels and thus resulted in the Iraq war. The result being many lost lives and injuries, instability in the Middle East and Islamic fractions world wide turning toward terror.
As you will see by the depth of the water levels on Brightside lane Sheffield, the water reached over the top of car roofs and many were simply washed away. From my own memories, I always remember the air sea rescue helicopter lifting people out of a flooding building in Sheffield, not an everyday event for my City.
