This is an excellent site. I left York for Canada in early 1966. If the archival evening press is checked there was a brief note in a copy in January 1966. As we lived for many years at the Bootham end of St. Mary's I remember the 1947 floods with the area below flooded. Sounds as though things are much worse this time.

Don't let the water over the tops of your wellies!

David Elliott