The Suffolk tsunami..........almost

So here we were on Thursday evening, watching the news and looking at the flood risk map, when it suddenly dawned on us that it might really be real. Fuck. We checked the relevant website and yes, my ground floor flat was, technically at least, in the danger zone. So we put contigency plan A into effect. (Anton loves that kind of thing - it brings out the SAS in him. As a two-year old he was rescued by boat in the 1953 flood)It was one of those classic 'what would you take with you if your house was burning/flooding/being attacked by aliens?' scenarios. I knew exactly - imac, stash,insurance documents. Oh yes, and wheelchair. Went to bed prepared to be woken up by the police hammering on the door at 2am, telling us we had ten minutes to evacuate. Woke up in the morning and nothing had happened. Good. It was however, a near miss. The flood defences just about held, but had the tide been just a little higher.........