Cumbria flooding

My sister lives in Ambleside, I think she is ok where she lives as she is on a hill, but she said all the roads are a mess.
 
How much "warning" were people given that the coming rain could turn into floods in the specific areas that have been hit?

In some news clips it's obvious people had no idea what was about to happen as nothing had been moved upstairs (like you would if you knew a flood was coming) so everything downstairs was wrecked which is a nightmare. You could see that the water in some houses was at least 4-5ft high and I'm amazed that water could reach those depths.
 
There was plenty of warnings but I guess quite a lot of people didn't receive them and some of those that did were unable to move everything or just didn't heed the warning until too late

We moved everything valuable that was possible to move but for some things it just wasn't practical
 
JBuk said:
There was plenty of warnings but I guess quite a lot of people didn't receive them and some of those that did were unable to move everything or just didn't heed the warning until too late

We moved everything valuable that was possible to move but for some things it just wasn't practical
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Aye, because of my parents location they get flood warnings, both the generic ones and the full opt in because they're registered for the full flood alert service.

However most of the alerts are false alarms, even the high risk ones (their garden gets waterlogged at worst), and the neighbours who don't have gardens that go down as low as theirs get them and have basically taken to ignoring them completely.

I think if you register with the flood warning service you can get them sent to you via email/sms and mobile as well as the generic area code ones that don't require registration.
However I suspect a lot of people might register and never update their details so early/mobile phone alerts are probably going to dead numbers at times.
 
So the government are offering 5k per affected property to help with future flood prevention.
Doesn't quite seem enough really...
 
Uther said:
So the government are offering 5k per affected property to help with future flood prevention.
Doesn't quite seem enough really...
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It's a ****ing joke, that's what it is. If these floods had happened in rural Pakistan, or any other dirtbox 3rd world ****hole, they'd be shovelling money in faster than they could print it.
 
Malevolence said:
It's a ****ing joke, that's what it is. If these floods had happened in rural Pakistan, or any other dirtbox 3rd world ****hole, they'd be shovelling money in faster than they could print it.
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If they'd have happened in somewhere like Pakistan the governments money would likely be the same but help a lot more people, and have a far bigger impact on the emergency response/aftercare.

£5k help per household in a lot of countries would allow the rebuilding of properties on stilts, and the household would end up with a better dwelling than they had before.
 
SPG said:
Well all that melted ice has to go somewhere, oh wait its not melting its a myth.
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RIP Cumbria if current forecast for the weekend holds - atleast another 120mm late Saturday/early hours of Sunday predicted.
 
Nelly said:
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And what happens when its rainwater with, y'know, stuff in?

Or a carpark with leaf debris in the water

Or floodwater with a high content of mud and other solids

Or any natural water other than clean tapwater with 0% debris.

While its an excellent selling point, it'll probably last a couple of years at best and is thus completely impractical over what we have now.
 
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