Floods :(

i don't ******* believe it. i've just been watching news24 and they say it may take 2 weeks to restore water supplies.... :eek:

i can see people's tempers wearing very thin by then especially when you see the behaviour of some people at these water collection points..... :mad:

i didn't even bother go out looking for water today as i thought it would be a few days, not a few weeks...... and my bog is stinking. i'm sure you all wanted to know that...... :D
 
mks2005 said:
Man, I need a shower.
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My wife works at the Ramada in Matson and they've still got water. You could always join the gym up there and use their showers.

They were getting complaints from guests yesterday as some bright spark had decided to clean their windows...
 
i had a solution last night holding the water. Cut some MDF to the size of your door, half height would do (unlikely to go higher), and put it on the outside and then silicon seal all the gaps. Then jump through a window to get back in or something.

The underside of the house have a damp proof course, bricks are permeable so eventually some damp will get through if the water don't subside in a couple of days. But at least you would stop the majority of the water flooding in and limit the damage as much as possible.
 
Drove from My house (Wales) -> Nottingham to see Steve Vai on Sunday and the main route included the M5 past Worcester was chaos.

Have to say you could see the river Avon under the bridge crossing the M5.. scary to think it could cross the motorway if it'd gotten any higher!! Saw some pubs in the distance flooded!! :eek:

Raymond Lin said:
i had a solution last night holding the water. Cut some MDF to the size of your door, half height would do (unlikely to go higher), and put it on the outside and then silicon seal all the gaps. Then jump through a window to get back in or something.

The underside of the house have a damp proof course, bricks are permeable so eventually some damp will get through if the water don't subside in a couple of days. But at least you would stop the majority of the water flooding in and limit the damage as much as possible.
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Very good, but Silicon won't stick unless it's completely dry when you applying it.. something the flood victims may have no control over.
 
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DJLOREY said:
Drove from My house (Wales) -> Nottingham to see Steve Vai on Sunday and the main route included the M5 past Worcester was chaos.

Have to say you could see the river Avon under the bridge crossing the M5.. scary to think it could cross the motorway if it'd gotten any higher!! Saw some pubs in the distance flooded!! :eek:


Very good, but Silicon won't stick unless it's completely dry when you applying it.. something the flood victims may have no control over.
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Some part of the country had a day or even 3 days notice that the water from up the river from wales is coming so that's plenty of time to do something about it. Obviously for those that where the water level rises 1 foot per hour would be lots more difficult. I suppose if i were living in a flood area, from now i would have some wood cut to size ready with a silicon gel gun.
 
eXor said:
All around me, restaurants and bars are closed and people are without water. Somehow, I still have water... at full pressure. :D

Long may it last.
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I thought the lack of water in some places was down to contamination aswell as the pumping stations being without electricity.
 
Raymond Lin said:
Some part of the country had a day or even 3 days notice that the water from up the river from wales is coming so that's plenty of time to do something about it. Obviously for those that where the water level rises 1 foot per hour would be lots more difficult. I suppose if i were living in a flood area, from now i would have some wood cut to size ready with a silicon gel gun.
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Aye, it's a good plan but it's one you'd have to pre-meditate to implement successfully :)

MDF on standby!
 
Raymond Lin said:
i had a solution last night holding the water. Cut some MDF to the size of your door, half height would do (unlikely to go higher), and put it on the outside and then silicon seal all the gaps. Then jump through a window to get back in or something.

The underside of the house have a damp proof course, bricks are permeable so eventually some damp will get through if the water don't subside in a couple of days. But at least you would stop the majority of the water flooding in and limit the damage as much as possible.
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Not sure about your house but mine has a load of vents around at ground level which go under the floor, so the water would simply flood up through those instead of through the door. A sandbag or two infront of said vents would help matters though :)
 
Raymond Lin said:
i had a solution last night holding the water. Cut some MDF to the size of your door, half height would do (unlikely to go higher), and put it on the outside and then silicon seal all the gaps. Then jump through a window to get back in or something.
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Here's a good solution if you live in an area that could be flooded - http://www.floodguards.com/floodguards/case_studies.html
 
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Amoeba said:
Not sure about your house but mine has a load of vents around at ground level which go under the floor, so the water would simply flood up through those instead of through the door. A sandbag or two infront of said vents would help matters though :)
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The site I quoted also does them for air bricks too :).
 
Amoeba said:
Not sure about your house but mine has a load of vents around at ground level which go under the floor, so the water would simply flood up through those instead of through the door. A sandbag or two infront of said vents would help matters though :)
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Thats because you have a suspended floor, the vents at the bottom is there because its likely that you have a Radon barrier underneath, and the vents are for cross ventilation so the radon gas can escape. But above the gap of the house and under your ground floor there is STILL a damp proof course.
 
[TW]Fox said:
A 21st Century Catastrophe?

What about the numerous times it happened last century? And the times before that?
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Perhaps a

20th Century Catastrophe

19th Century Catastrophe

etc

[TW]Fox said:
And? I've watched TV and checked websites without electricity.
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How did you manage that? Could you do it after your house has, by chance, been flash flooded? At night? All night for updates?
 
Edward78 said:
I heard that the UK got a months worth of rain in 24 hours... Does the UK get The Weather Channel?
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Somewhere near 160mm fell at Brize Norton which is a huge amount, more like 3months rain (summer anyway) and no we dont have a weather channel unfortunatly :(
 
The average amount of rain over the whole country in June - the wettest June ever, still isn't very much compared to typical winter rainfalls. The amount of water is not the problem - it's the intensity (in how short a period of time it falls) and concentration (over how large an area).
 
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