Cumbria flooding

Flack88 · 7 Dec 2015 at 17:53

=XDC=FluphyBunny said:
Must be devastating to watch your home be flooded and your belongings destroyed

Even worse when there is nothing you can do about it at all!

DrunkRufie · 7 Dec 2015 at 18:03

We had some bad flooding where I live also (Donegal, Ireland).

Same thing happened 3 weeks ago but it was much worse this time around

Never seen anything like it before.

Slam62 · 7 Dec 2015 at 18:14

Charity begins at home

Arsonist · 7 Dec 2015 at 18:15

My girlfriend and her mum live just off Warwick Road in central Carlisle - safe to say she now has a free swimming pool

They were about to sell the house too

All their elec stuff is in the basement too so even when power comes back on they still won't get any as he system will be ruined.
Not even anything I can do to help, living 3 hours away.

antijoke · 7 Dec 2015 at 18:30

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!

SPG · 7 Dec 2015 at 18:56

wnb said:
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.

Everything that is wrong with the insurance situation in the UK, in couple of sentences.

People like him need help, not some rabid refugee.

Deleted member 66701 · 7 Dec 2015 at 19:24

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

I said people shouldn't BUY a house in a flood risk area. I said nothing about selling.

Greebo · 7 Dec 2015 at 19:42

amigafan2003 said:
Fair point.

Although if I checked the online tools and they showed my home was at risk of flooding I'd move - I can't imagine, other than a fire, of dealing with anything worse involving your home. It doesn't matter how good your insurance is, it must be horrendous dealing with a flood.

Yes you did, you said people should move. How can they move if by you saying nobody should buy them?

They should just pay off their £250k mortgage in one lump sum and go buy another house somewhere else then?

Greebo · 7 Dec 2015 at 19:44

anticonscience said:
How did you manage that? Thought the water was more shallow?

Met a range rover coming the other way at sill speeds and after the waves hit me my electrics went

Ayahuasca · 7 Dec 2015 at 20:23

amigafan2003 said:
I said people shouldn't BUY a house in a flood risk area. I said nothing about selling.

I know exactly what you said but not all of those in flood risk area's will have bought the house they are living in.

antijoke · 7 Dec 2015 at 21:23

Greebo said:
Met a range rover coming the other way at sill speeds and after the waves hit me my electrics went

Man that sucks.

Deleted member 66701 · 7 Dec 2015 at 21:42

Greebo said:
Yes you did, you said people should move. How can they move if by you saying nobody should buy them?

They should just pay off their £250k mortgage in one lump sum and go buy another house somewhere else then?

Where in my post did I say OTHER people should move?

I said what I would do.

Edinho · 7 Dec 2015 at 23:01

wnb said:
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.

I'm sorry but I don't believe it. I take it he went down the ombudsman route and told the council, lobbied an MP? Thought not.

FloppyPoppy · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:23

This donkey was saved in the floods over in Ireland

Look at how happy it is!

Greebo · 8 Dec 2015 at 13:45

Cosimo · 8 Dec 2015 at 14:59

Desmond's rainfall:

Data from NASA's Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) were used to estimate rainfall for the period from November 30 to December 7:

This analysis found that some rainfall near the Irish Sea measured over 392 mm (~15.4 inches) during this period. As much as 304 mm (~12 inches) of rain were reported to have fallen in only 24 hours.

wnb · 8 Dec 2015 at 16:29

I drove down a road which is now reopned after the flood. My god what a mess 2inchs of moad on the road, the road was down to a single track, and trees down everywhere. What surprised me was about 50 round bales scattred everywhere even in peoples gardens.

JBuk · 8 Dec 2015 at 16:36

wnb said:
I drove down a road which is now reopned after the flood. My god what a mess 2inchs of moad on the road, the road was down to a single track, and trees down everywhere. What surprised me was about 50 round bales scattred everywhere even in peoples gardens.

It's horrible when you get moad on the road

antijoke · 8 Dec 2015 at 16:44

JBuk said:
It's horrible when you get moad on the road

Spook187 · 8 Dec 2015 at 17:54

Just had a another flood warning, this time it is our side of the river

Cumbria flooding

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