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Urgh I have just seen this on bbc news....poor campers  Heres a short vid:

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What a terrible shame - and a camper's worst fear. 

For anyone who's been flodded out, hope you got all your kit out and its better next time.

I feel sorry for them but had to chuckle when one of the campers said he was going back to sunny Somerset as it has been pouring all day here.

We watched that on our local news and then it showed studfold farm where we stayed last week...not exactly flooded but everyone was looking a bit wet.( I got all giddy just because it showed a site we have stayed at on the telly. ok sad I know! ) Its a shame when people get flooded out like that but looks like this is becoming the norm.

I dont mind the rain as long as we can stay warm and the tent stays dry inside...once that battle is lost its time for home, luckily we havent had a washout yet despite lots of rainy camping trips. Fingers crossed that everyone manages to enjoy thier hols!

I suspect a lot of newby campers will be very put off by this, rain is one thing but flooding is truly miserable. I would imagine many will call it a day and put the tent on e-bay and book the costa something next year. It's a shame the weather really seems to be following a pattern of very wet summers.

I must admit having been totally waterlogged last year, I've been very reluctant to book anything longer than a weekend in the UK this summer, I don't fancy having two weeks of solid rain. I can manage a weekend OK, but it's not much fun camping in wall to wall rain for days on end. Here's hoping the weather forecast for August is as naff and the sun decides to make an appearance.

We were flooded from our tent at a campsite in Tenby in 2007 although the tent (a Royal Montpellier 12) was actually fantastic, its SIG kept out the water even though we were in the middle of a lake nearly a foot deep - the floor was like walking on a waterbed though.

While we and our friends in their Vango Diablo packed up our tent and moved to a pitch at the top of the field (which took all day with all our gear) the caravanner next door was moaning about how his van carpet was slightly damp as he had left a rooflight ajar!!

That turned out to be our last holiday in a tent, we had been thinking of moving up to a caravan and this kind of pushed us along.  Tenby taught us a lesson though, always pitch at the top of the site if possible, never in the bottom, even in our caravan

The weather in the UK is, has and always will be unpredictable but abroad is not immune, I recall holidays in France 30 years ago seeing campers wringing out sleeping bags in the morning - no SIG's then!!