BS: Floods UK: All ok?

Subject: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:17 AM

Lots bad news for folk in northern England,Wales, Scotland, also Ireland in respect of serious flooding.

'Catters in affected areas ok?

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:22 AM

Some detail here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:28 AM

& here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WryxIJw5rh4

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:40 AM

But we can hear from those not so badly affected, can't we!

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:54 AM

Also, without the story being raised, many, especially abroad wouldn't know about it

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Crow Sister (off with the fairies)
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 09:55 AM

I live right on the top of a hill... There's a dreadful puddle outside my front gate though.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Old Vermin
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 11:25 AM

Anyone known to be in the flood area that we * haven't* heard from?

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: pdq
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 11:53 AM

Perhaps people will stop making fun of Hull?

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 11:55 AM

Anyone known to be in the flood area that we * haven't* heard from?

There were about 50 people unaccounted for in the Cockermouth area last night. Most (if not all) are thought to be out of the area rather than missing.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mysha
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 12:27 PM

Hi,
Crow Sister

> "I live right on the top of a hill... There's a dreadful puddle outside my front gate though."

Don't say things like that: above the line.

Bye,
                                                                  Mysha

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Rumncoke
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 02:18 PM

The weather is still very wet and with the ground already saturated there will be a danger of flooding anywhere.

I live right down on the South coast of England and today - Monday 23rd November, there has been torrential rain here, so bad that I had to stop and sit in the car until it eased off as I could not see to drive safely.

We were already seeing open areas waterlogged, such places as sports fields and car parks.

It does rather suggest that there will be more areas of the country affected by floods in the near future.

Anne Croucher

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 03:08 PM

Working at Essex Record Office which is on a narrow spit of land between a river and canal, we wonder when not if we will become HMS ERO.

Quite a lot of rain in the last weeks, but no flooding like last February, when we had to put out sandbags at front entrance.

Still unseasonably warm in mid Essex too.

My Rheumatoid Arthritis is complaining a lot. Joints don't like damp.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Smedley
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 03:16 PM

Allegedly the weather returns to the November norm of chilly & bright by the end of this week   - not before time.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: peregrina
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 03:35 AM

Today's forecast: another 4 inches of rain for Cumbria

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 04:52 AM

Listening to the news this morning and a family who had flooded out 4 times in the last 5 years were being interviewed. Poor buggers can no longer get insurance for flood damage and if they do there is a £10,000 excess:-(

When is someone going to take responsibility for all the building going on within the areas that were previously flood plains? Even if the buildings there are not affected is it not obvious that if the rvers have nowhere to overflow to the water will come out somewhere else? OK - climate change has a lot to do with it as well but until we restore a natural overflow system or replace it woth something just as effective these things will get worse.

DeG

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 08:20 AM

Example of a stop gap solution to help folk in Workington, split in two by collapsed bridges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workington_North_railway_station

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: GUEST,Mr Red
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 08:31 AM

No problems in Gloucs this time. But the water was over the road at Joy's house.

When I bought my house the hydrology of the area was definitely one of the criteria taken into account. Along with not being next to a school, pub or main road. If everyone did that kind of thinking the properties would find a realistic price and builders would not get the profit from building in the wrong place. Like good aluvial soil.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 09:25 AM

or something like these? http://www.floatingconcepts.co.uk/floating-designs/residential_boats.html

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: Mr Happy
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 10:39 AM

or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stilt_house

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 01:02 PM

the flooding in Cork city was partly due to the ESB,they should also have given more notice to the people of Cork City regarding their intentions.
it is a sad fact,and I feel sorry for those whose houses have been damaged,but this wil boost the Irish Economy.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 09:33 AM

"When is someone going to take responsibility for all the building going on within the areas that were previously flood plains?"

That, of course, means interfering with the 'Free Market' - and we can't have that, can we? We elect the politicians and then they work as hard as they can to make rich people, like property developers, even richer. We can't let 'little things' like lives, livelihoods, sanity, logic etc., etc. get in the way of this sacred mission.

Subject: RE: BS: Floods UK: All ok?
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 25 Nov 09 - 10:30 AM

"Example of a stop gap solution to help folk in Workington, split in two by collapsed bridges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workington_North_railway_station " .....

What an excellent example of what can be achieved for the public good in a very short time. If the resources are there, a lot of the damage that Marples/Beeching wreathed on the country could be repaired!