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Flood misery follows night of storms
(Story dated: Wednesday, January 12)

St Mary's, Holm (Picture: Kenny Pirie)
Looking down on Scapa Beach (Picture: Kenny Pirie)
With just under an hour to go until high tide, the water of the Kirkwall Basin had already reached the top of the Corn Slip.
(Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
As the tide rose, flood water spilled on to Ayre Road.
(Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
The Shapinsay slip, under siege by the encroaching tide.
(Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
Rising water levels in the Kirkwall Basin.
(Picture: Sigurd Towrie)
The incoming tide in Burray.
(Picture: Kenneth Roy)

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