The Bucks Hill Tornado

Emergency services were called to Bucks Hill, Nuneaton this morning as high winds ripped apart trees and tore roof tiles from homes. This was the scene that greeted me as I drove up Bucks Hill at 6:45am this morning. The journey from Coventry had been bad enough contending with torrential rain and gusty wind but as I climbed Bucks Hill towards The Bucksford I noticed there were parts of tree branches all over the road and up ahead was the blue flashing lights of a police patrol car that was blocking the entry to Trafford Drive. The trees near the Trafford Drive shops on Bucks Hill looked like they had been savaged. I managed to squeeze my car past the police car, which I don’t think particularly impressed the copper inside, but then I had to pull up immediately anyway as there were more police cars and a whacking great fire engine blocking Mallard Ave and the houses on the corner of Trafford Drive and Mallard Ave had varying degrees of their roof tiles missing and there was debris all over the road and pavement.
It was blatantly obvious I was not going to get to my destination down Mallard Ave anytime soon so I turned the car around and headed back to Coventry. On the way I went down Astley Lane to discover Seeswood pool had partially flooded the road, and The Nuneaton Road near Fillongly was also flooded. I finally managed to get to work in Leamington Spa praying the rain would ease up as Leamington Spa floods like a bath.