and in my formative years living by an estuary near the coast, it is a part of life to learn and appreciate the tides and currents and when safe to swim or not ... do you get to appreciate natures fury on and in the water.
Unfortunately a surge of water can come unexpectedly at times, but knowledge if you have time to act, in the power of water that only a small amount can knock you off your feet. This was heeded by us when it was decided that my daughter and I evacuated one season when we lived by a river in Kent, on notification of a flood warning. The river peaked just at the brim of the river. Phew.
The power of water when swollen, cannot logically get under a bridge. Is not in the advising of police officers assisting in helping the public in these moments, until more recent times from the latest bout of flooding to hit the UK, after a policeman in the past was washed away in Cumbria some years ago.
