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Cumbria flooding
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I'm in Bury, and this news makes me feel much better. No, wait - I feel better because the flooding is nowhere near me. I can't help wondering whether he would have moved from meetings to action if the flooding was in Surrey.
Highest current water levels
(by percentage above normal high)
River Ouse, Cardington: 5,964.69%
https://www.riverlevels.uk/river-ouse-bedford-cardington#.Vn8H1JOLTMU
Eek!
(by percentage above normal high)
River Ouse, Cardington: 5,964.69%
https://www.riverlevels.uk/river-ouse-bedford-cardington#.Vn8H1JOLTMU
Eek!
Thats definitely a broken recorder...
I didn't think I would see some of the nonsense comments I've seen popping up all day on facebook about Cameron..... like he allowed it to rain for so long and he allowed places to flood, and like ANYONE can do anything about it right now....... I know, I will drive along and take a pump and the water will be gone!
A lot of the places that are flooded in Yorkshire right now didn't stand a chance. No amount of flood protection would have stopped it, no amount of dredging etc.
Yes we need more dredging, yes we need more flood defence, but this sort of stuff doesn't happen overnight.
Blaming any one individual is almost as bad as the MP who blamed previous floods on the legalisation of gay marriage.
A lot of the places that are flooded in Yorkshire right now didn't stand a chance. No amount of flood protection would have stopped it, no amount of dredging etc.
Yes we need more dredging, yes we need more flood defence, but this sort of stuff doesn't happen overnight.
Blaming any one individual is almost as bad as the MP who blamed previous floods on the legalisation of gay marriage.
22+m above normal I suspect it is broken - 0.9m previous high so 2m would be quite an event never mind 22 heh.
I live near one of the places that flooded badly in Somerset in 2014 - the attitudes of some people are quite bizarre - quite surprising how many were trying to go about their lives as normal with an outlook along the lines of "the government won't let it happen" while others were moving all their valuables to the top floor.
I live near one of the places that flooded badly in Somerset in 2014 - the attitudes of some people are quite bizarre - quite surprising how many were trying to go about their lives as normal with an outlook along the lines of "the government won't let it happen" while others were moving all their valuables to the top floor.
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That video is set to private, would be wrong of me to share it about..
Sorry was away from keyboard, you sorted.
People always say that but when the Somerset levels (drained marsh) flooded and 80 houses were flooded there was hardly any news reports about the hundreds of houses flooded along Thames near Henley and London.
Stop pretending the SE gets preferential treatment in stuff like this.
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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Excellent, I hope he's brought his magic Prime Minister's stick which will solve the issue immediately! I hear he can actually control the weather and mother nature with it!
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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I was just going to mention this. There was loads of flooding in the SE that year, I was working in Leatherhead at the time which was half under water!
I lived in Dorking and we couldn't get out of the town. The pub at the bottom of Box Hill was closed for almost a year.
The wind took down loads of trees too which caused loads of damage. A work collegue had both his cars destroyed
.I've seen litterallly zero investment in improving defences here. If it happens again, we will be equally screwed.
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