The Christmas Eve Floods, Diss, Norfolk - 24th December 2020

Heavy rain falls on sodden ground, and as usual the Waveney river running along the edge of Diss floods, however it's much worse than usual as a bike ride in to town reveals. The junction of Victoria and Sawmills Roads is particularly bad, isolating the new-ish care home opposite Desira garage, but luckily a dude is on hand with a high-wheeled lorry to help ferry staff through the floods.

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There's a rainbow over the flooded golf course

There's a rainbow over the flooded golf course

Floods near the old-people's home

There's not much golf to be played today

The field on Stuston Road has predictably flooded

Large parts of the golf course are flooded

Some flooded houses

The fire engine is on standby for pumping

Householders look out

The White Elephant is surrounded by water

There's some sort of flooded TV

The fire engine is partly blocking the road

Traffic lights in a shallow lake

The Serious Loggin' lorry has the wheels for it

Thumbs-up from the Serious Loggin' driver

Driving through the floods

The junction of Sawmills Road

Sawmills Road

Someone walks through the floods to Desira

Abandoned cars and a floating wheelie bin

Desira Garage is cut off

The garage staff rescue some cars

A Land Rover makes it through

A traffic island becomes an actual island

Serious Loggin' comes back from the care home

The old chapel

The staff get a lift to the care home

A For Farmers HGV ploughs through the flood

The Waveney has predictably flooded near the Lows

The footpath was flooded to cycle-pedal level

The footbridge peeks out above the water

The water-level marker has disappeared in The Mere

The peeling sign of the Laundrette in Mavery House

The Laundrette - Lettuce wash your duvet

Mavery House

The small house by the White Elephant is surrounded

Another view of the submerged golf course

The meadow near the gold club

The flood is right up to Waveney Caravan Park

Nosher's bike, and a Triumph Herald

Water bubbles up from the drains near the Stuston S bends

Angry sunset over the sodden side field