mega storms uk next week

uncle_rufus said:
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
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It has nothing to do with where the floods are happening... Everything to do with 40 houses being flooded in Somerset and thousands now being flooded in the south east... No matter how often you try and insist on it being because everything that happens in the south east is "more important " it's more likely to be that the flooding in Somerset affected a few thousand people and cost a few million while the flooding in the south east has affected and will cost a couple of magnitudes more. If a house burnt down would you expect it to have the same coverage as a high rise flat?

I'm actually amazed by the coverage of the Somerset levels. For somewhere was by and large a peat bog/marshland it has had massive coverage. I was away when it first started and assumed due to the coverage that thousands of houses were flooded when I heard... Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be 40...
 
Its done nothing but rain since I've been up since 7am. Even the local market that stays open in all weather was packing away at dinner time as the weather is suppose to get a lot worse this afternoon in this neck of the woods. Better get my canoe ready for the school pick up this afternoon.
 
Had some gusts in the last hour that were easily 80mph suprised I still have working internet as a tree was being blown against the line. Rain heavy but nothing extreme.
 
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Just went outside for a few minutes. Got hit in the face by a sheet of rain, and it's like being in a wind tunnel at the same time. Some people are going to seriously suffer in this.
 
oldbag said:
It's coming down on the roof of our office building in London really hard.
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Really? In central London there's a bit of rain (cold but nothing spectacularly heavy) and some wind blowing it on to the Windows on one side. Not enough to do much more than move the small twigs in the 50ft trees in the park next door though.
 
Amp34 said:
Really? In central London there's a bit of rain (cold but nothing spectacularly heavy) and some wind blowing it on to the Windows on one side. Not enough to do much more than move the small twigs in the 50ft trees in the park next door though.
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I'm in Central London and can hear the wind howling and the rain. I'm in holborn.
 
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