Enjoy the photos here -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44842012@N02/

The G4 was brilliant but could not cross some of the floods - just way too fast and dangerous waters.

We met a chap who lost his Freelander ! - swept downstream whilst crossing a flooded road at Skelwith Bridge.

Denys

Perhaps we could all think about what we could do, training, what kit we we need and how we might finance it?

For those that are interested we could meet at the first show in May at the Heritage?

Or would we be better off trying to raise money to buy a 110 for a mountain rescue team?

Please stay safe out there and never work alone - if you want to help, please ensure your safety first.

our mountain rescue team have just bought a new 110 amb looks a great bit of kit.

Rescue Team takes delivery of new Landrover Ambulance.

After a number of years fundraising, the Team has successfully raised sufficient funds to enable it to replace its aging Landrover ambulance. The purpose built ambulance, based on a Landrover 110, allows the Team to respond to incidents in remote locations or during adverse weather conditions. The ambulance carries the specialist medical equipment used by the Team; including defibrillator, medical gases, and spinal splints along with the Teams rope rescue equipment. As always, the vehicle has been designed in such a way as to carry a casualty on the Teams Bell stretcher thus helping the speed of extraction from difficult and remote locations.

http://www.srmrt.org.uk/about.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarborough_and_Ryedale_mountain_rescue_team

andy

http://www.4x4response.info/public/publicWrapper.php

(I need to run in compatibility view with IE8 for the above site)

Many a times have we walked the path from Langdales to Skelwith bridge with the kids, what a scene! Great pics. Hope life gets back to normal for the locals soon.

Not sure if there is a "list" held anywhere. Might be worth the Camel and G4 clubs offering thier help in these situations.

I am in touch with my local GP and he has had me give him a lift to places a few times.

Lake Windermere rose 8-9ft where we were - that is a huge volume of water for a 12 mile lake !

Thats unreal !

good to see support from the army.

hopefully they will be sorted and up and runing in no time.

andy

I really enjoyed reading the thread!  The whole of Cumbria was really badly affected by the floods, although I must say that the Local Authority and Emergency Services coped brilliantly.  Each County Council has a 'gold' level disaster response team, which moves into the Recovery Phase immediately after.

I was crashed out (we have folk held at readiness for deployments around the world) to build the bridge in Workington earlier this month - well I was the Project Manager for the whole scheme, with about 90 Royal Engineers under my command as the design team and contractor.  You might have seen me on the BBC news.  I almost took my G4, but decided against it!

It was a great job, extremely challenging in only 12 days, cost around £1.5M, was on a saturated flood plain and in a devastated area.  Probably the best job that I have done in 24 years as an an engineer in the Army (including Iraq and Afghanistan).  The people in Workington and Cumbria were really on side and treated us very well.

A couple of pictures below.  If you want to help with this kind of thing - I think raising cash would be best, or delivering emergency relief (blankets,clothes, food etc) might be best.  Either way, it should be co-ordinated into the Local Authority plans.  It was amazing to see such devastation in our own country - I have seen it first hand in Bosnia and Sudan, but I did not expect to see it in Cumbria.

Rob