Cumbria flooding

Amp34 said:
If you want to blame anyone blame the farmers who are stopping the EA planting more trees in upland areas and creating flooding areas to slow down and contain water before it hits towns.

Dredging is a reactive measure, unfortunately the proactive measures are being stopped by hill farmers and others stopping rewilding in watershed areas.

And all flood defences do is move the problem down river (See Somerset levels as a good example of what upstream flood defences can do). Many of today's problems can also be attributed to river straightening, meaning water gets downstream even faster after a rain. Well that was a clever idea...

Much of the work being done today is to slow rain water down (reforesting upland areas, creating natural flooding pools, recreating meanders in rivers, allowing old overbank areas to flood again), all of which are designed to slow the flow of water after a major rain and reducing peak flow in the rivers. Spread the flow over a longer period (like it naturally would be) and rivers are less likely to overflow their banks, dredging is less needed (both because there is more capacity and because the sediment is deposited upstream in overbank areas) and man made flood defences are needed only in a few specific spots. Many flood defences on the other hand are designed to get the water downstream and away from the defended area as quickly as possible.
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What you say is right except the opening bit about blaming the farmers, the trees were cleared by the government so that they could create more grazing areas for sheep. It was the farmers who said it would be a bad idea and the government just said well we want more money. The farmers were paid by the government to remove the trees and increase the sheep count.

Like I say though, everything else is right and a bit refreshing to read something from someone who actually knows what's going on. Most people will ignore it though.
 
Werewolf said:
Am I the only one that when they hear the PM is in a Cobra meeting gets all excited about the thought that a bunch of politicians are likely to get bitten by venomous snakes, then remember that we're not that lucky?
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When I hear it, it always summons up mental images of a bunch of kids in a tree house having high level talks about whose house to egg.
 
Has anyone here been affected, in terms of damaged PC?

I've been umming and arrring about talking to OCUK about doing a 'PC kit donation' post - donating various bits to anyone who may want to rebuild/repair their computers.

I have a few cases, X99 motherboards and disks going spare.
 
OracIe said:
Has anyone here been affected, in terms of damaged PC?

I've been umming and arrring about talking to OCUK about doing a 'PC kit donation' post - donating various bits to anyone who may want to rebuild/repair their computers.

I have a few cases, X99 motherboards and disks going spare.
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I am not sure those who find their homes flooded will have building a PC top of things to do list. :D

The sentiment is right though. :D
 
OracIe said:
Has anyone here been affected, in terms of damaged PC?

I've been umming and arrring about talking to OCUK about doing a 'PC kit donation' post - donating various bits to anyone who may want to rebuild/repair their computers.

I have a few cases, X99 motherboards and disks going spare.
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Apparently there is a computer store that are offering free picture/file retrieval for people whos laptops etc have been damaged by water. Thought that was pretty nice of them, although the cynic in me thinks its also pretty good exposure for them.
 
Mark A said:
Apparently there is a computer store that are offering free picture/file retrieval for people whos laptops etc have been damaged by water. Thought that was pretty nice of them, although the cynic in me thinks its also pretty good exposure for them.
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You're going to think there is an ulterior motive for any good gesture if you continue to think like that.
 
amigafan2003 said:
It's the North - why would Cameron and chums care about the North?
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Because he and his friends have enabled developers to bubuild cardboard rip off housing in our beautiful areas. Yesterday some of the planned sites were under water...

Gotta assure people buying on a freak flood plain will be fine! Haha.
 
It's a good job that they cut the Environment Agency's budget to basically nothing, oh wait...

Glad i live in Wales as the budget for Natural Resources Wales is controlled by the Welsh Government. Was also able to secure a lot of EU funding to protect vulnerable areas, they spent £6m on new protection for my village alone and the village hasn't flooded since. Both roads out were under water but crucially the village didn't flooded at all.
 
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