BBC news get your priorities right !

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Biggest tidal surge since Noah built his boat and all we are getting is the demise of a pensioner.

Sorry if this offends people but FFS tell us what is happening in OUR country.

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Calmed down a bit now....

One of the reasons for my rant was i live on a boat in a marina on the east coast, as do friends of mine.

We had the highest tidal surge ever recorded here and the floating pontoons were less than 2 foot from
rising above their support posts. If that had happened there would of been 340 boats adrift in this marina.
Couple that to all the other marinas around the area and you have potentially a hell of a lot of damage to property.

Let me tell you, it isn't much fun at 2am untying your moorings and starting the engines incase you have to set to quickly.

At the end of the day it would not of been too much trouble for the news teams to update the surge every half hour or so.

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Riley Blue said:

'340 boats nearly adrift' isn't news, is it? Until it happens (which it didn't) it's not news.

I can't believe people haven't done what I've done and simply not watched or listened to the news if they find it so objectionable. The BBC is the place for most of the posts in this topic; I wonder how many have taken the time to complain to the culprit rather than bang on about it here.

Ok....

Say your house,or one of your close families is at a high risk of getting flooded, you turn on the news to check for updates as you are concerned but all you get is same old repeated crap that some 95yr old pensioner has died.

Put yourself in that situation and think about it.

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TwigtheWonderkid said:

Well I'm not bothered. So some bloke in Norfolk has had to chuck his carpet out, and someone else had to carry his dog to a dingy. And this is more newsworthy than Mandela dying???

Some of you really are hard work.....

For those not aware, the surge was working it's way down the east coast and how hard would it of been
for any of the news channels to simply give an update thus:-

1. The tides are indeed as high as we feared
2. The tides are not as high as we feared

Not too much to ask is it ?

At least that way a LOT of people are at least informed of developments and can then take any action if so required.

Surely someone could of squeezed the odd update in every 30mins or so instead of showing us people doing
a stupid dance from halfway around the world.