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[ New Year's Day Meeting - The
Beehive, Woodhatch -
January 2014 ] ::
The text and the photos are by Bozi Mohacek. Please click on any thumbnail picture below to
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New Years Day 2014 was the continuation of the pretty dire Christmas
2013 storms which flooded a large part of South East England and left
many people without electricity for nearly a week. Not surprising
therefore that only two proper cars and the Chairman Bozi Mohacek's Land Rover attended the now traditional New Year's
Day meet at the Beehive in Reigate. It was therefore interesting
to note that one of the annexes was
again packed
with SVVS Members consuming lunches, in what was surprisingly
quite a busy pub. Guess everybody must have come in their
waterproof moderns. The yellow MG Midget belonged to John Morgan and the
white Volkswagen to the Tester family.
The Christmas floods affected Mr. & Mrs. Chairman who had had their
fair share of the recent storms which left lots of neighbours flooded
and without electricity. Unlike many of their friends and relatives,
they had mains power but their basement was nearly up to the ceiling
with floodwater. In the front drive the water was up to the headlights
of the Land Rover when Bozi was called out to help rescue somebody. A
good comparison of how an average car would have (not) fared can be seen
by comparing the two headlamp heights in the photo above. He was amazed
he actually got out and through; lot to be said for Rudolf Diesel, and a
high level snorkel ! All the flooding happened in less than an
hour while they were getting ready to go to a dinner. Instead they were
forced to stay at home and spent the evening waist deep outside in pitch
darkness in freezing water trying to do disaster recovery. A number of
big trees had come down down in the fields across the farm, but that
will be a job for after New Year. A Christmas to remember!!
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