(23 Jul 2007) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of high water levels in the Thames River in Oxford
2. Mid of houseboats and people walking near the river
3. Close of running water
4. Wide of woman pressing down sandbags
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Giles Warner, Oxford resident:
"Well you can see here we've got the sandbags there, we've got this board here which I don't think will stop the water getting in but it will stop all the mud and detritus from the river going into our house and may actually stop the river flowing through the house."
6. Mid of Giles pointing at board across his door and daughter looking on
7. Mid of Jim Stott, tourist from Windsor, on his boat
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jim Stott, tourist from Windsor, England:
"Well it's not too dangerous as long as it doesn't come too high against ... over the bank and sweep us over the bank. But it's got to be maybe a foot above the bank for us to be that dangerous."
9. Fast flowing water under bridge
10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Ursula Siegfried, student from Zurich, Switzerland:
"The problem for the people living here by the Thames is that there'll probably be a lot of water in the houses. I feel very sorry for those people, but at least we can go back to a dry home."
11. Mid pan of Oxford Mail newspaper transit van driving through a flooded street
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Geff Harvey, Printing Manager for local newspaper, The Oxford Mail:
"The equipment and the press is fine but getting staff in and printed papers out is a big issue. The staff have actually walked in today and as you've just seen we've just done a wet run with the transit van to make sure that we can get copies out, and we are confident we'll get papers onto the street."
13. Transit van driving away
14. Tracking shot from a vehicle of the flooded streets, as people attempt to walk through the water
STORYLINE:
Residents of Oxford in southern England were installing boards and sandbags on Sunday to protect their homes as the authorities warned that floods could hit the town on Sunday night.
The River Thames, which flows through central Oxford, had reached its maximum level by midday (1100 GMT) on Sunday, and the fast flowing water showed no signs of receding.
One Oxford resident, Giles Warner, had prepared for the expected flood by covering his front door with boards and sandbags.
"Well you can see here we've got the sandbags there, we've got this board here which I don't think will stop the water getting in but it will stop all the mud and detritus from the river going into our house and may actually stop the river flowing through the house," he said.
One tourist from Windsor had found himself stuck on the river as his boat could not continue upstream or turn around due to the high river levels and strong current.
But Jim Stott was not worried.
"It's not too dangerous as long as it doesn't come too high against ... over the bank and sweep us over the bank. But it's got to be maybe a foot above the bank for us to be that dangerous," he said from his boat.
Ursula Siegfried, a student from Zurich, Switzerland, said that she felt sorry for people who lived near the river as she thought that their homes would be flooded.
"The problem for the people living here by the Thames is that there'll probably be a lot of water in the houses. I feel very sorry for those people, but at least we can go back to a dry home," she added.
Elsewhere in the city, some areas of Oxford were already flooded, as well as parts of nearby Abingdon, Bladon and Kidlington.
AP Television filmed people as they made their journeys through the flooded streets on foot.
Keyword-severe weather -floods
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