Why In The UK...

8th February 2014

Do people have to blame somebody for everything.

The weather is to blame, no a man or group of men.

Get over it!

Please discuss.

This is a bit like a JD thread minus the warm fuzzy feeling.

The weather is to blame for the conditions - single men and groups of men are to blame for the lack of preparation for those conditions.

If medieval monks were able to go through similar conditions and keep the Somerset levels free of flooding then why are we a modern society not able to do so?

the weather is the fall back position in any conversation with any British person, I thought that was understood by everyone..

BigAndy9 wrote:8th February 2014

Do people have to blame somebody for everything.

The weather is to blame, no a man or group of men.

Get over it!

Please discuss.

The simple answer is you can't sue the weather Andy  :D 

lol excellent point ftl

I've just been reading up on the Somerset Levels, which I'm sure you all know is meant to be under water - the British have artificially drained it.

Some excerpts from Wikipedia:

The Moors and Levels, formed from a submerged and reclaimed landscape, consist of a coastal clay belt only slightly above mean sea level, with an inland peat belt at a lower level behind it.prone to winter floods of fresh water and occasional salt water inundations. [color=#ff3333]The worst in recorded history was the Bristol Channel floods of 1607, which resulted in the drowning of an estimated 2,000 or more people, houses and villages swept away, an estimated 200 square miles (518 km2) of farmland inundated, and livestock killed. Another severe flood occurred in 1872–1873, when over 107 square miles (277 km2) were underwater from October to March.

The Levels were frequently flooded by the sea during high tides, a problem that was not resolved until the sea defences were enhanced in the early 20th century. In addition, the problems of high fresh water floods are aggravated by the unrestricted entry of the tide along the Parrett, which is the only river in the Levels and Moors that does not have a clyse on it. Discussions on whether a clyse is needed for the Parrett and whether it should be sited at Bridgwater or nearer the mouth of the river date back to 1939, at the start of World War II, and have not been resolved.