It's raining again!

eddie wrote:England is going under water.
It' rained 23 out of 31 days in January.

All those poor people flooded out of their homes.

eddie wrote:
England is going under water.
It' rained 23 out of 31 days in January.

All those poor people flooded out of their homes.

Beekeeper wrote:

eddie wrote:
England is going under water.
It' rained 23 out of 31 days in January.

All those poor people flooded out of their homes.

 
 

ALL of "those poor people..", mostly only have themselves to blame !!!

When will the English [and the Dutch..] learn that you DON'T build houses in waterways and floodplains if one doesn't want to be washed out whenever you get a heavier-than-normal shower of rain !  

Tess. wrote:

eddie wrote:England is going under water.
It' rained 23 out of 31 days in January.

All those poor people flooded out of their homes.

I know.  It's unbelievable.  Can't imagine what they're going through.  Even in Surrey which never had any weather problems.  It's time for a major rethink on policy because I don't think this sort of thing's going to go away in the future.

NemsAgain wrote:All this rain, its just normal for Liverpool!

Cameron needs to undo all the cuts made to flood defences and get some more resources in place quick.

feelthelove wrote:

NemsAgain wrote:All this rain, its just normal for Liverpool!

Cameron needs to undo all the cuts made to flood defences and get some more resources in place quick.

Absolutely, heaven only knows how much longer this is going to go on.  Having said that we are back to calm and sunny again now   

Tess. wrote:

Beekeeper wrote:
 
 

ALL of "those poor people..", mostly only have themselves to blame !!!

When will the English [and the Dutch..] learn that you DON'T build houses in waterways and floodplains if one doesn't want to be washed out whenever you get a heavier-than-normal shower of rain !  

Hardly.  Those people in Salisbury have been living there for centuries without this problem.  You can see most of the houses are old.  It's the lack of upkeep of the pumping systems (which hasn't been modernised since 1941) and the Environment Agency's failure to keep the rivers dredged, a practise that's been ongoing for years in the past.  They say 40% of the rivers are silt; this would have prevented the current situation happening.  

Tess. wrote:
I agree in other places where they've built new houses on floodplains.  Pretty stupid.  Then again, if they'd built them on pillars of marine quality with the ground floor raised that would have been okay.  Time to review the way we do things in the future.

Beekeeper wrote:

Tess. wrote:
Hardly.  Those people in Salisbury have been living there for centuries without this problem.  You can see most of the houses are old.  It's the lack of upkeep of the pumping systems (which hasn't been modernised since 1941) and the Environment Agency's failure to keep the rivers dredged, a practise that's been ongoing for years in the past.  They say 40% of the rivers are silt; this would have prevented the current situation happening.  

  

WITH respect to those places like Surrey and Salisbury that either haven't seen flooding like this before, or would only experience it once or twice in a century ~ that kind of freakish weather is similar to what happened up in a rural valley inland from Brisbane a couple of years ago. Dozens of homes and small farms were hit one afternoon/evening by a one-off 'storm cell', and several people were killed..

Even though that valley had been settled over a century ago, it had never experienced that level of intense rainfall and  'flash floods' in their collective history..
   
AND climate change 'modelling' predicts an increased occurrence of such extreme events over the next few decades. Only time will tell..     

Tess. wrote:
I agree in other places where they've built new houses on floodplains.  Pretty stupid.  Then again, if they'd built them on pillars of marine quality with the ground floor raised that would have been okay.  Time to review the way we do things in the future.

  

WHEN it comes to bad developments in our 'First World' countries ~ where corrupt councils and guv'mnts are allowing crooked developers to develop flood-prone estates that they should never have been allowed to  buy in the first place ~ I believe that the old commercial warning adage of "caveat emptor", let the buyer be aware, should apply alongside any statutory protections..
What sort of idiot buys a building block or a house that's built below flood levels ?   

Tess. wrote:

eddie wrote:England is going under water.
It' rained 23 out of 31 days in January.

All those poor people flooded out of their homes.

I know.  It's unbelievable.  Can't imagine what they're going through.  Even in Surrey which never had any weather problems.  It's time for a major rethink on policy because I don't think this sort of thing's going to go away in the future.

Clarkson wrote:A good point ftl but as we have only been around a short time this may in fact be normal in a long cycle sort of way.