lost kit on the river GRETA/TEES (North England)

[Mr Laurent]

Very heavy rain last night (5th September), we got caught up on the river GRETA (trib of the Tees) raising fast and extremely high. Everyone is safe but Mark Wadsworth lost his boat (Pyrhana burn medium size yellow) and paddles (Robson oracles with yellow blades). Kindly let us know if you spot it...

[Wilf]

Sorry to hear that Laurent. The Tees is immense today, I have never seen it so powerful. I reckon the next stop for the kit will be the Barrage.

Greta also, the biggest I have ever seen it this morning (Sat 7.30am)
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I hope you get the kit back, I'm just glad everyone is ok and has an epic to talk about in the pub.

[ian pooleman]

The tees was epic today, paddled from Middleton to down to Winston where there were some pretty big holes, no sign of your boat or paddles when we paddled that section.

[hils]

Looks like someone had problems today

see the northern echo website

/news/3652014.999_drama_as_canoeists_capsize_on_flooded_river/

(its not letting me post URL's)

[jmmoxon]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3 ... ded_river/

(You can't post URLs as you are still on probation!)

Mike

[Wilf]

Doh. Like I said, the Tees did not look in a good mood. That stretch just before Winstone can get pretty hairy in big water.

Thanks for the heads up with the article.

[Mark R]

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/3652014.999_drama_as_canoeists_capsize_on_flooded_river/

The article describes them as 'experienced canoeists'. The circumstances seem to suggest otherwise, although I guess they're rather more experienced now ...

[Fatboy]

From friends who were on the river that day, I believe they were slalomists (Prem and Div. 1), who were up from the cancelled Washburn slalom.

[RobHel]

Had a great day on the Lower Tees today, very big and bouncy.

As we got off at Winston Bridge ITV News (Tyne Tees) were there filming an item about this with the police. One of our group gave a short interview which should be on the local news tonight.

Hope all involved yesterday are ok.

itvlocal.com/tynetees/news/

Jump to 4:30 in. (Sorry can't post urls yet)

[ian pooleman]

They were all fine, just a bit embarrassed, we saw the helicopters buzzing about and the police were just leaving as we got off.

ian

[ian pooleman]

Anyone know what thay concrete platform is when the news lady says "if I was here yesterday I`d have been underwater" ??

Don't recall ever seeing it

[box2k2]

Paddles safely recovered.

No sign of the boat on the Greta, or the Tees down to Whorlton bridge.

[geyrfugl]

itvlocal.com/tynetees/news/

I think you need a "http://www." at the start of that. Mind you, the
story doesn't seem to be there today, and the site is broken - if you
follow links, another site tries to set cookies, which, not being on
the same site as the original URL of the page being displayed, tend
to get refused by any sensibly configured browser, and then the page
whinges that you haven't enabled cookies and tells you how to do so
(for Mozilla...), which is unhelpful in the extreme.

Meanwhile, back at something related to the story, the Tees at Abbey
is merely "big" today, about 2.5m below the peak level (judging by
the riverside vegetation). The peak level seems to have been half a
metre above the biggest I've ever seen it previously. Anyone got any
photos from Saturday ?

Andy