Cumbria flooding

JBuk · 7 Dec 2015 at 00:32

~>Dg<~ said:
damn thats sad canoed under that and stopped at pooley bridge many times

Poorly Bridge

Nelly · 7 Dec 2015 at 00:39

Dipstick question. Say an electric pylon went down, how far would the water conduct and be dangerous to human life?

FloppyPoppy · 7 Dec 2015 at 00:44

Nelly said:
Dipstick question. Say an electric pylon went down, how far would the water conduct and be dangerous to human life?

It would automatically cut itself out & im pretty sure the cables would snap

If it did manage to stay on and in tact... It would not actually manage to travel very far i expect. A lightning bolt only spreads around 6 meters. And is a lot more powerful than any power lines i know of.

Nelly · 7 Dec 2015 at 00:51

harry5522 said:
It would automatically cut itself out & im pretty sure the cables would snap If it did manage to stay on and in tact... It would not actually manage to travel very far i expect. A lightning bolt only spreads around 6 meters. And is a lot more powerful than any power lines i know of.

Cheers, I did try googling it, but it just mentioned about lightning.

FloppyPoppy · 7 Dec 2015 at 00:52

Nelly said:
Cheers, I did try googling it, but it just mentioned about lightning.

One thing to take note of with electricity in water is it still prefers to travel to metal. so if there was no metal around it would spread evenly but for instance if there was a metal box or something it would be directed mainly towards that.

Freakbro · 7 Dec 2015 at 06:26

amigafan2003 said:
Fair point.

Although if I checked the online tools and they showed my home was at risk of flooding I'd move

Selling your house to who? You just said people should check and stop buying houses on flood plains...

wnb · 7 Dec 2015 at 15:43

I spoke to a chap who was flooded in Carlisle. He lost everything, all he had was the clothes on his back which were borrowed. He does not have any insurance as after 2005 the premiums went up to £3500 a year which he could not afford.

antijoke · 7 Dec 2015 at 15:54

Holy crap!

Those pictures.... :eek:

Uther · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:03

That amount of damage is going to cost millions of pounds, and take years to fix!

Deleted member 66701 · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:07

Freakbro said:
Selling your house to who? You just said people should check and stop buying houses on flood plains...

I didn't say anything about selling.

grudas · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:16

that does not look good! :| so close to xmas too..

Ayahuasca · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:18

amigafan2003 said:
I didn't say anything about selling.

How are people meant to move out of those flood risk areas without selling?

Greebo · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:37

Well this was my car when we went back on Sunday and after myself and some local farmers cleared the blocked culvert and the water had dropped a foot!

Cosimo · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:44

Greebo said:
Well this was my car when we went back on Sunday and after myself and some local farmers cleared the blocked culvert and the water had dropped a foot!

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Unlucky. :( Is that all the damage you've suffered?

djshauny1 · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:45

Check this out

Greebo · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:49

Cosimo said:
Unlucky. Is that all the damage you've suffered?

Had our biggest and oldest ash tree come down from the bottom of the garden (about 15 metres high and 6 foot wide at the base) but luckily the wind was blowing away from the house so didnt damage anything thank good.

The car is a write off so new car time so all i get was very wet and very cold. Much luckier than some people I saw on the news.

Orionaut · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:50

[TW]Fox;28908827 said:
I'm sure you already know the answer but the reason the foreign aid budget gives aid to third world countries after disasters and doesn't do the same for the UK is because people in the UK are insured against, or have the opportunity to insure against, events like this. Therefore as awful as the events are they do not cause widespread poverty or death from starvation.

But then you already knew that.

That will be the insurance that was reported earlier today as having been ramped up over the last couple of years to 2-3000/pa with a 25,000 flood damage excess.

No hardship at all really :/

Ayahuasca · 7 Dec 2015 at 16:56

Orionaut said:
That will be the insurance that was reported earlier today as having been ramped up over the last couple of years to 2-3000/pa with a 25,000 flood damage excess.

No hardship at all really :/

That's an absolute joke to be honest.

It could potentially ruin the rest of your life with debt or life savings being wiped out.

[TW]Fox · 7 Dec 2015 at 17:16

Orionaut said:
That will be the insurance that was reported earlier today as having been ramped up over the last couple of years to 2-3000/pa with a 25,000 flood damage excess.

No hardship at all really :/

Not all insurance policies will have an excess as high as that - only the absolute highest risk properties. You can insure a high excess, too - it's about £1k a year for £25k flood excess insurance but if you live in an ultra high risk flood area it's probably £1k a year well spent.

But the point remains - in the UK, virtually nobody dies through hardship imposed as a result of events like this, primarily because we have developed infrastructure, well trained emergency services and virtually every property will be insured (It's a requirement of a mortgage after all). In the third world, thousands of people die. That is why less developed countries receive natural disaster aids and developed economies do not.

=XDC=FluphyBunny · 7 Dec 2015 at 17:20

Must be devastating to watch your home be flooded and your belongings destroyed

Cumbria flooding

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