Video: Suffolk flooding: 'I've never seen it this bad' The Environment Agency has issued 15 flood warnings across eastern England with the worst affected areas named as south Suffolk and north Essex. Residents in Stowmarket have had to try to sandbank their houses and negotiate submerged roads. Since I've lived here I've never seen [the river] burst its banks as it did this morning. I've never seen it as bad as this before," one resident said. Suffolk currently has flood warnings for the River Lark, the Rattlesden River, the River Box, River Brett and the Stour Brook at Haverhill.