We were on high flood alert last Friday. The talk was of a storm so bad it would rival the east coast floods of 1953 when parts of Lincolnshire were demolished and many people lost their lives.
It wasn't as bad as that, thankfully. The flood defences managed to hold.
We rummaged through the YTV archives to find material from those floods of '53 and it was amazing to hear the tales from those that were there and see the devastation caused.
For a special look back at the floods of 1953 click here: East Coast Floods 1953
