mega storms uk next week

uncle_rufus said:
Just watching the news and frankly it's ******* me off... They've got some local woman being interviewed in Berkshire or somewhere saying:

"It was so awful, everything was getting so difficult and morale was just at an all time low, we didn't know how much longer we could cope, but finally they sent in the army and the police and firemen etc..."

It's only been flooding in the South East for like a week!!! :rolleyes: Meanwhile the West was pretty much totally submerged for the best part of a month and there was barely any response to it at all :mad: But suddenly

"ooooohhh my antique fine china is getting a bit damp, at this rate my chandeliers might dip in the water - call in the troops, this is serious business!!!"

I know people in this thread have said that there are more homes and stuff in the South East so of course they take it more seriously but that is just a real crappy attitude imo - why should anyone in the country matter less than anyone else when there is a crisis?
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This, this and this again.

Somerset under water since before Christmas and there have been the token visits by vacuos politicians and other sponges, but no firm action. Thames floods and the world is nearly at an end.
 
Shelster said:
This, this and this again.

Somerset under water since before Christmas and there have been the token visits by vacuos politicians and other sponges, but no firm action. Thames floods and the world is nearly at an end.
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Do you not think that might be related to the number of households affected and the population density of each affected area?
 
[TW]Fox;25831074 said:
Do you not think that might be related to the number of households affected and the population density of each affected area?
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Yes, I can see why they are now reacting as they are as the population density is higher, but as uncle_rufus said, why should this only matter now that more people are being effected? Surely the response should have been there when the first floods happened? Yes, idealogical utopian view there agreed, but it still should have happened like that.

What is really getting my goat is the constant bickering between the politicians about this. In fighting and trying to blame each other is not helping the people who have water sloshing around their living rooms. Another Utopian idea would be that they decide to put politics away for a while and help the people of the country that voted them into their cushy jobs with the ability to swindle and lie for a living (you may guess that I don't like politicians much :D :p )
 
Shelster said:
Yes, I can see why they are now reacting as they are as the population density is higher, but as uncle_rufus said, why should this only matter now that more people are being effected? Surely the response should have been there when the first floods happened? Yes, idealogical utopian view there agreed, but it still should have happened like that.
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Look at the history of politicians. They have always got to be publicly embarrassed into it. Everytime.
 
[TW]Fox;25831074 said:
Do you not think that might be related to the number of households affected and the population density of each affected area?
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Of course it is related but it's still not right - the response to a crisis like this shouldn't depend purely on where it is happening...

Yes, the SE is more populated and so flooding stands to damage more homes - but each individual family or landowner who has their property ruined is not going to be more or less devastated by the experience depending on where they live...

And besides I bet even if it was a crisis that didn't depend on population density the situation would be no different - a huge explosion of coverage and determined response as soon as the areas around the capital are affected
 
Really worried about today's impending stormageddon. The river here has flooded constantly since I returned to work in Jan and with this afternoon's predicted torrential rain I think we could be looking at some people spending the night in the office.

If anything at all good comes out of this it'll be that they'll finally start building proper drains in the South, replace London's Victorian sewage system for a start.
 
Suppose you saw the flooding down in the caves coming up through the pipes? As they unhooked the caps.

scorza said:
If anything at all good comes out of this it'll be that they'll finally start building proper drains in the South, replace London's Victorian sewage system for a start.
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Didn't Cameron say money will be no object?
 
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I'm in Walton and watching the news yesterday I was expecting a tsunami to engulf my house followed closely by a scrum of BBC and Sky News reporters. I think there is one, maybe two, residential streets with water on them. They are cul-de-sacs so if you didn't go down them you wouldn't even know.
 
So looking at the met office forecast for the week through to Monday it doesn't look like it's going to stop.

Appalling conditions, have the places that have been effected been declared a disaster zone?
 
I tell you what, if what has just hit Northern Ireland within the last hour or so, is headed your way, good luck.

It has been coming down really hard and the wind with it is picking up.

It's the amount of water coming down, I've not seen rain like it in a long time.
 
Wow, that's pretty bad in all honesty.

What with the weather due to come it's going to get a lot worse before it gets any better. About time we start to look after our own just like the US does when they get devastated by tornado's.
 
The red warning for wind gusts of up to 100mph in west Wales and north-west England is valid from 13:30 GMT until 21:00.

100mph, that's a bit on the breezy side :eek:
 
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