UK: Travel chaos after all Eurostar trains cancelled
Festive travel plans have once again been thrown into disarray dozens of Eurostar trains from London to the continent have been cancelled after severe flooding in a tunnel under the river temps water was seen gushing from a pipe thousands of Travelers hoping for a New Year getaway have been marooned
It’s getting more and more expensive uh every minute that passes so we’re trying anything from buses trains other countries and going around around a different route all the Euro stars are booked today and tomorrow so you can’t get enough one we looked at flights they’re all fully booked so we can’t get
There now we even looked at the Euro tunnel and driving but yeah it’s just impossible I think a lot of people that are stranded are worried where they’re going to sleep tonight that’s that’s what our the the deal is with us we don’t really care we stay another night
London it’s where we’re going to get to put our head cuz it’s booked up for the holiday for the New Year’s meanwhile on the other side of the Channel people couldn’t get to the UK the main worry was that um I’m not from Paris so I was
Hoping they could at least cover some accommodation costs and none of that was very clear I still don’t know if I would have gotten anything covered so I’ve Lally had to call up my friends my family to find a solution to stay over because no trains running today the weather has also caused
Disruption with yellow warnings for wind along the southern coasts of England and Wales gusts of up to 75 mph forecast there have also been yellow warnings for rain or snow in Wales and Scotland a wet end to a wet year latest figures from the Met Office show is been
One of the top 10 wetest years for England and Northern Ireland in records going back to 1836 rainfall Maps show that compared to the long-term average the southern half of England and parts of the rest of the UK have had 200% more rain just Western Scotland has had less rain than normal
In an otherwise stormy year according to the Met Office this is the fastest start to the storm naming season with seven names so far from Agnes and September to Garrett early this week but that may not be that unusual just by naming a storm makes us more aware of
It forecasters blame the High Altitude Winds of the jet stream for the storms tracking over the UK usually the jet stream stays a little further north over us so Scotland and Ireland yes they do see some rough weather but England and Wales get away remarkably lightly and particularly down in the Southeast you
See you sit there going oh it’s lovely down here but the North and the West don’t and that’s just because of the usual placing of the jet stream which this year has been a lot further south allowing these storms to make more of a Countrywide blow but the Run of bad
Weather is coming to an end with early indications of much colder conditions later in January another twist in Britain’s variable climate Thomas M Sky News on the south coast
Eurostar trains to and from London have been cancelled as more extreme weather in the wake of Storm Gerrit disrupts travel plans.
Sky’s Thomas Moore reports.
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20 comments
Brexit.
They should have got a dingy they would have got a 4 star hotel and 3 meals a day thown in for free.
GEOENGINEERING costs the uk 6 million each year and yet ukraine drone war is very dry
Doing great, UK. Doing great. Keep helping ukrainian clown though, instead of your own country and citizens.
Why is the uk turning into a 3rd world country, all the engineering expertise and we cannot account for things like flooding when, wait for it, it happens to rain a lot..!?
If they hadn't shut down Ebbsfleet, they could have turned the trains around there
How often do they conduct maintenence checks?
so with the channel tunnel flooded does that mean more illegal small boats arriving ?
The IDF did it. I heard and read the IDF are flooding tunnels with sea water.
Guilty as charged.
They may have to move the Eurostar terminal from St Pancras back to Waterloogged.
All deliberate!!
Why do people plan to travel on the busiest days of the year? It baffles me. Plan ahead, get there a day or two early, relax at the hotel/friend's place, then enjoy the holiday without travel worries. All it takes it some foresight and planning.
It was due to Thames Water not investing in infrastructure….they caused the flooding not the storm.
I am sure the British will blame the French or the EU for the Eurostar tunnel flooding in London.
We need to make a change for a planet guys seriously, like I’m scared and I’m scared that no else cares and seems to be happy with our earth getting disconnected
"Variable climate" – It's called seasons mate. I feel for the people involved and their misery but for goodness sake don't travel during holiday times. It's hard enough to get anywhere in this country at the best of times.
What Brits wouldn't do or pay to flee from GB…
😊 how it goes 😊 god bless!
This could have been my fate. I almost booked with Eurostar, but my sister said to book a flight instead. Wow!
😂😂😂😂