Severe weather warning...part two

So there we were, five pm promptly, quite a shock really, but DC meant business, we were going to get loads done, so there we were, at my dining room table, matching laptops side by side, files out at the ready, my new fax/printer/scanner connected to my laptop ready to go, a list of actions and....after a couple of hours Things Would be Done..Stress Would be Lessened...sounds like a plan.....

Anyway, as Dc is setting up, I go into the kitchen to put the kettle on and fetch the plain chocolate digestives...no meeting is complete without them..DC's phone rings..it's North Yorkshire number (where he based all week) and he says, no, that's the third time someone has tried to ring him from there in the last hour, but no, he's not going to answer, they can wait, he will focus on the Important Work we have to do here....

While I am pouring the tea I hear his phone bleep with a text....then I hear a shocked voice say a rather rude word, then silence....I freeze, with a sense of foreboding..what on earth has someone texted....I go in to the dining room with tea and he is staring at his phone. He hands it to me, and I read:

'Urgent. Caravan site flooding. Caravan needs moving immediately.'

We stare at it. Is this a joke?? Someone having a 'laugh?' It's the middle of June and the sun was shining on a lvoely dry field when he left on Wednesday evening....

A phone call to the site confirms the awful truth, and yes, they have called him three times in the last hour...the river has burst its banks and his caravan is next to it (such a pretty spot he picked to live during the week..) and is at risk of being swept away....

So DC, having left the keys with the site owners the first week, realised he didn't this week, and there is a security lock on the towing hitch and a wheel clamp on one of the wheels...does he need to come now with the keys? Oh yes, they say.

So he abandon laptop and files and jumps in the landy and drives very fast northwards....and I remember the severe weather warning I heard....

He only gets as far as Stevenage (not far) when they ring to say the water is up to the caravan door (18") and rising, can they take steps to move it whatever the risk of damage? Yes, says DC, thinking, we only bought this three weeks ago and it cost a lot of money and it seemed a good idea at the time...

So when he gets there, he discovers the caravan, safely on a bit of dry concrete, having been dragged off using a wire hawser wrapped round the towing hitch, and pulled, wheel clamp and all, out of the water and to safety.

When he rings me, at gone 11.30pm to tell me all is well but that the river has risen 15' !!!! (what took you so long, did you get there ok, have you had to do much?) (answer: no, I got here by 9.30pm and moved the caravan to a better space, but have been drinking whisky with the guys to say thank you.....) I did ask if anyone had taken pictures of the dramatic rescue? No, says DC they were busy getting 100 plus holiday makers off the site and rescuing my caravan, and avoiding drowning, why would they stop to take pictures? Oh, I say, a bit disappointed, I wanted some for my blog.....

Next morning I text at 8.30am asking politely for a couple of pics if he wouldn't be so kind...oh yes, he says, I will get up and go outside specially....no trouble...and I was rewarded with these wonderful photos of a very large lake where once was a caravan site....

This is the best one..can you see, in front of the line of hedges, slightly towards the left of the picture, a lampost sticking up out of the water? You can see its reflection in the lake?? Well, between that lampost and the trees on the right, was parked a caravan, until very recently....