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I was driving home to Maidstone from a night shift in Ashford. Got into the town centre and couldn’t believe my eyes. I had a 2nd floor flat on the riverside, I parked my car and went up to my flat. I looked out of the window to see a torrent of water starting to pour out the drain so I immediately grabbed my bag, got in my car and drove to my parents in Aylesford. My Dad and I went back to rescue my cat later that afternoon and the water was hip deep by then. Took months for the smell to leave the downstairs of the flats. Crap Christmas 😂

The river is nothing but a piece of scum sewagey and poop of river as it looks muddy and vile because people treated terribly and Southern water and who in the right of mine would want to swim in that piece scum and live on the boat on the scum seriously as I wouldn't

Remember this well.

Man I wish I could've been there I didn't move here till the past two years ago

Sad

I would so get a life raft and ride around....

I wonder how high the Len was and if it breached the Chequers loading bays. Maidstone born and bred now in the US. Thanks for posting.

Very Much like the 1960s floods were a part of Maidstone life back then. I remember the Army having to erect a raised walkway at the bottom of the High Street on a regular basis, also I can recall the Len Furniture Works (now the Chequres Centre) being flooded and seeing tables and chairs being swept along Bishops way and into the Medway.

They shot the bridge so to get from 1 side of town to the other then you had to go out of town round and back in again add 8 or 9 miles to your journey whet I live wasn't affected but the park at the bottom of my road was.

They shot the bridge so to get from 1 side of town to the other then you had to go out of town round and back in again add 8 or 9 miles to your journey whet I live wasn't affected but the park at the bottom of my road was.

Anyone know why they just dont open the gates at aylesford. Always wondered why they just let everything upstream from there flood.

I mean it went all over the road lol

Dam I was there in the night I was out clubbing and I stood there and u could the river rising and I came all over the road I was pissed at the time but I can still remember it as clear as day

very wet...

The snow melted quicker than we knew

i love the birds swimming backwards

wats with the lame music?

Moonlight Sonata = flooding in Maidstone? random choice

Other countries must feel really bad for us with the severity of our 'natural disasters'!!

hate to say this but if the council did flood barriers all the way down the river will rise higher & take longer to drain away after the defence breech, I know to most building defence barriers sounds a good idea but these will only work for so long

Such weather, so mystery.

People always seem to be shocked by this bad weather. Just global warming, people need to get used to it.

thats what you get for being selfish and you can't blame the weather cause your blaming god

Fudge yummy yummy is closed. That's it. Turn the lights out. Game over man. We should be thankful no one was killed

I was there today and omg it was flooded like hell...I live in Maidstone and the boat restaurant that was on the water had sunk

DodgyDan4 it's Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata (:

I'm not sure that the council could have done anything about this. If they erected barriers the water still has to go somewhere; with this amount of water the flood would be somewhere else. Perhaps this event may speed up the thought process by the hydrologists.

Dammit weather! Y U always try to ruin stuff! Apparently there is also flooding near my area, but luckily it didn't quite get to where I live. I feel really sorry for whoever lives there, and anywhere with these floods. Of all days for it to happen on, why did it have to be Christmas!?

Name of the piece?

Well tbh theve had 13 years to get the rivvers sorted and they've made it worse for them self

How did you manage to haul the piano around with you with all that water?

Flooding is never good but on Christmas day of all days, sorry to get a bit political but if the local council had put all the time and money they spent on the debates about flood defenses into ACTUALLY building flood defenses then this sort of thing wouldn't happen.

I only live 5 mins away. Don't worry guys this flood will slowly die out

Wow

Poor car at 4.00

I live a few mins away :(

what fucking shit music to play...

Some photos from today's flood in Maidstone, by WPE photography. Please see link to facebook gallery bellow: facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.708485912508597.1073741832.677128435644345&type=3&uploaded=65

mann this is maddness, i bet those ducks around 1:53ish didnt have a clue what was happening... kinda glad i cancelled my trip into town tomorrow

This is the worst I've seen in Maidstone since the flood of 1968! I suspect that the Environment Agency is partly to blame (who have taken over from the NRA). In Rochester when I left this morning the River Medway was at low tide, in fact the lowest I've seen for a while... and yet when I drove along Fairmeadow towards the bridge in Maidstone the water had burst the banks and water was feet deep and into Earl Street and had flooded the car park near Medway Street. At low tide the sluice gates at Allington should have been opened and then after water level had dropped in Maidstone town centre the lock gates at Farleigh should have been opened to allow the water out into the estuary. I can't see evidence of this happening, perhaps they are all on holiday? But at what cost to householders in Yalding?

The last time it flooded in 2000 my mate kayaked through the subways

Its flooded like this loads of times, remember as a kid. At Allington lock they have marks on the wall how high the water got.

I'm still upstairs in Drake's. Its much worse now

feel sorry for the homeless folks

tragic feel for the people s homes and business s

Eep! I was at that odeon only last night too!

Still not as bad as it has been

Jesus, weather you scary.