Tesco carpark is underwater. People were being hurried out from 9:30 PM. A tide of water was coming across the carpark from the direction of the River Ock.
This all happened within minutes. It must have taken everybody by suprise.
The environment agency has a Flood Warning out for the River Ock: Flooding expected affecting homes, businesses and main roads. Act now!
i was at work saterday night and never new about the flood till i tried to get home on sunday and had to walk through water up to my waist to get home and then had to get my own sand bags from b/q carpark if they new this was comeing it was a joke to say they helped people
If Tesco is such a caring employer it should be contacting staff advising them NOT to try and get to work. Staff have been told if they dont go to work they have to use a days holiday – As they say on their adverts on TV "Every little helps"
Would it be worth making the trip in tomorrow, I'm trying to decide whether to risk going in.
They are saying on the news they are expecting a surge…dont want to get stranded.
To be fair, they wouldn't let me in to work, but then I was only supposed to be working overtime today…
In their defence they made a huge path out of empty wheelie cages going across the entrance to the petrol station/garden centre that would have been very easy to walk across without getting wet feet, unless you happen to be wider than about a meter.
Though when I went down to check the water level an hour or two ago the platforms on the cages were mostly underwater.
I'm supposed to be working tomorrow morning too… LOLZ
and on sunday morning tescos expected staff to wade thigh high through flood water to start work or lose pay tescos have no regard for peoples health and safety
we were told that we could be evacuated, word of mouth, but nothing official has been said??
whats happening-is the river gong to burst or not??
more pictures here.
unbelievable! having to get your own sand bags! having to go to work! all this self pity makes me sick. some people have lost everything, some businesses have lost thousands! think yourselves lucky! besides why should tesco give their staff a day off full paye when it is completely out of their control?! either waid through the water and work or take a holiday! simple as that!
Oh dont start about tesco.
Last year insted of ringing me up telling me it was flooded, it was a "do you have wellies?" "cuz we need somebody to stand in the rain and water to direct traffic away"
They dont care about staff, all tesco care about is £££!
Personally i think that place shuld b shut doen n put an asda there anyway!
My mother lives in Park Road and is on holiday at the moment…..I live in Wales should I be rushing down to save any family heirlooms?
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I totally agree.The Fire Brigade did nothing on saturday evening apart from watch distressed people fill their own sandbags.I personally watched them laughing at a couple of young women trying to get sandbags in their car. I saw the guy drunk in a fire uniform.It was only when I saw him in the oxford mail today that I was able to put a name to him.I have reported him to Fire HQ in Oxford and to the local media. I was shocked at the attitude. You are quite right. They are not heros..but zeros
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Hi from New Zealand. Commiserations with your terrible floods. I have relies in Oxford and Abingdon/Radley,so am keepng a close eye on Oxfordshire. We are just cleaning up after our own horrendous flooding in the our Far North. One small town may have to be re-located.
Keep your chins up, and keep Smiling.
Margaret
Park Road is looking safe from water and there are not many places better to live.
Just removed a couple of comments – accusations against a named person.
You should be safe in Saxton Road. There are houses down near the river so you might want to look at flood maps if considering those. But this year they looked safe.
I am intersted in a property in the Saxton Raod area. Has there been flooding there or is there likely to be? What steps are being taken to prevent it happening again does anyone know?
flood caused by abingdon fire brigade..shock horror…
backstreeter scared of truth
to backstreeter…please tell me who put you in charge of dissemination of info…big brother ???
have a spine and ask the local fire brigade a few questions…
coward
"Just removed a couple of comments – accusations against a named person."
They weren't accusations..they were facts…who put you in charge..
Backstreeter…scared of shadows more like…follow this story and see where it goes…it would be nice for g… w….. to get punished for what he did…
Get a backbone scaredy cat
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Hi Sim-O… I have removed more of the naming comments.
Hi Backstreeter,
I would delete those comments that name the fireman, if I were you. It is not people power, it is mob rule.
A couple of things:
i) The accusation about this man being drunk on duty are just that, accusations. In the main report it says nothing about him at all, it is only in the comments that he is mentioned. These are unsubstantiated accusations, I am surprised the Oxford Mail has left them up.
Has he been disiplined? If so what was the outcome? If it was found that he was either a) not on duty and/or b) not drunk you have a very serious incorrect statement about this man that could have an affect on him in the future.
ii) Screw the people that say it is censorship/big brother/cowardice to delete these comments.
Free speech does not include the right to libel someone. Challenge people to prove what they say, and if they can provide a source, in this case it would probably be another news report as a fireman drunk on duty in the middle of a flood would be a great story, then leave teh comment up.
Whilst your blog is hosted by google with the servers in the USA, you have some protection from the USs' more reasonable libel laws, we are all still mere mortals and do not have the resources to go through a libel case so it is best to err on the side of caution.
No body is stopping these peoples freedom of speech, after all, how long does it take to start a blogspot blog, eh?
Sim-O
Oh, and thanks for showing me some areas of my home town I hadn't seen before.