Flood hits Hackney Wick amid heavy rainfall

Evening Standard
Evening Standard
  • 8 months ago
A London party boat has sunk and 50 people have been led to safety in Hackney Wick after heavy rain and flooding hit the capital.The city was battered by a deluge on Thursday, amid a yellow weather warning for rain issued by the Met Office across south-east England.Great Western Rail said major disruption was expected on its train services until the end of Friday, as flooding shut several of its routes.An RNLI lifeboat and Met Police and fire brigade vessels were scrambled to Temple Pier in central London around 12.30pm after a party boat moored there sank.
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00:00 I live a few streets away and when I came back around midnight last night there was
00:09 clearly a huge incident because there were maybe 10, 20 fire trucks and all kinds of
00:16 things. When I asked one of the emergency workers what had happened, they said there
00:23 had been a flood and they were waiting for a truck to come and pump water there. I looked
00:30 on Twitter and that said that they are waiting for this lock to be opened because the water
00:39 level is much lower there. I think the obvious question is why didn't they open this lock
00:44 and let the water just flow down there rather than overflowing into the residential area.
00:49 So I think that's an unanswered question.

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