Just wondering how all your UKers are doing with all the flooding going on over there. Treading water yet? Do you think your gov't can cope with this disaster? I'm surprised NONE of you are talking about it that I can see... They say the Thames may flood London next... http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1276465,00.html This is the biggest floods in 60 years! That's gotta be a lot of water for such a normally wet place.
*gets to work building the ark* Dr foster went to gloucesteshire... in a shower of rain... he stepped in a puddle, right up to his middle... and never went there again.... Poor buggers, luckily i'm oop north.... it don't look much fun for the southerners atta mo'
Well I hope you're all safe & dry! Good time to visit the states. We've got lots of drought here. Bring along some of that extra water with you!
Im in Cheltenham. The last few days have been a nightmare. Water was waist deep around the house. Now our waters switched off, cant even floosh me bog! Ooer!
Actually, I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned too. I didn't notice until you said that, Skip, but I've not see a thread about flooding here for ages...not since the Glastonbury threads. It's not bad here since my hometown is on a hill, but just around 15 miles away there's a town called Tollbar that's been flooded. There's even been accusations by people in Tollbar that the town was "set up" for flooding to save Doncaster. Oh, and some fucking joker went around stealing these rings they use on the water pump pipes, so the salvage operation in Tollbar was severely hampered. Bastards, I hope they catch them and...well...yeah. Castleford was hit hard by the waters too, but I think they're alright now. I got a hell of a shock going home from college a week or so back, crossing the bridge over the Aire and seeing half a field full of river.
no water our way... i'm sort of east(ish) of London. though i love rain wouldn't want the flooding. however if it did come i'm in a first floor flat so it'd be the downstairs neighbour that would have the serious problem. was funny today driving around though as someone had this really huge yacht in their driveway .. we were wondering if they were preparing for the flood or if their name happened to be 'Noah'.
My town is okish but a few of my friends' houses are flooded and they've had to move out for a while which would suck, everything will be ruined. What's it like in Wiltshire? Got womad in a few days.
the nearest flooding to us is parts of cheshire and some parts of wales " also heard birmingham got it pretty bad .
Hope everyone's ok. It's not really a disaster, just a bit damp in a few places. These floods are within natural variability and happen about every 50 years or so. What it shows is that some minor flooding can bring parts of the country to a standstill because there is no infrastructure designed to cope with it. When the real floods start to happen as a consequence of climate change in the coming decades and centuries we will really have a problem unless we start preparing for it now...
Aye, all's well up north. Well, Newcastle-way north. I know Yorkshire had some problems. Saw on the news this morning that Southern Europe is having a drought aswell as the States. Fair few forest fires raging away. Canny messed up when you consider just how close it is. I know these floods aren't at the disaster level or anything. But it's still sad when you see people on the news talking about the irreplaceable things that have been destroyed. 30 years worth of family photos and treasured belongings and the like.
The Thames Barrier is useless against any surge of water (caused by floods upstream) rushing toward the sea. My solution is inspired by Holland. Okey, with regard to housing shortages, we should reclaim land from the sea and build massive dykes like that in Holland. Not just from reclaimed land but in flood plains. Drainage or channels like that in LA. Concrete channels to direct flood water away from Towns and citys, villages affected. Floating housings, we would all be better off building state of the art houses of the future. The house of the future is one that can raise off its foundations in the event of a flood. Of course they would be anchored to a stake. I believe that we will be getting more floods due to hotter summers that trigger massive storms.
California is on the verge of the longest drought in its history. It seems the Earth's weather patterns have changed due to global warming. Scientists predicted this change years ago, and as the Gulf Stream warms, and more glaciers melt, you can expect even more rain in the UK. In fact I think the radical changes happening to Greenland might be a big influence on the weather in Northern Europe from now on. I think as the ice melts and the land heats up more moisture gets in the air, resulting in more rain. But the changes are going to progress a certain way. Cause once the glaciers melt and are gone, there will be LESS water in the atmosphere, and things will start drying out more. These kinds of changes normally take tens of thousands of years, but we are seeing these things happen over the course of just a few decades! So what you see today, might not be the case a few years down the road.
Last night the power station was ment to sink!!! they stopped it for now but tomorrow the rain is ment to be back and it will blow all the electricity around here!!!! Could be fun
Got a fuckin' river running by my house... one that isn't there normally. Living on a flat flood plain in a flat county sucks.
Nothing to write about in Cornwall apart from the odd large puddle. It must be horrible to endure but tbh when compared to catastrophies worldwide it does seem on the small side. Loads of people calling for more defences, perhaps we should just make rivers illegal that'll stop the floods.
Exactly, well said. Our house got flooded out, and a lot of things got trashed, but theyre just things and we can replace them. Our water hasnt been switched on for days but were getting by. There are people who will NEVER have enough water Its is annoying me how some people in this area (Gloucestershire) are claiming its like being in a third world country, and going way over the top with it. Someone on the Glos news site even said it IS a third world country, and said the people of Africa should do more to ehlp themselves but were "decent" people who dont deserve it! Jeez! Who cares about their damn 3 cars each, or my stupid sofa? Its a bit of water, lots of the rest of the world gets it a lot worse I feel better now
WTF?? oh well here goes ! Nah were really doing ok - me and a couple of mates drove down from birmingham to near cheltenham and unhooked the speedboat, donned our wetsuits and did a bit of waterskiing around the flooded homes . Yeah it was great then it was off to the city centre of worcester where we used a few vehicles as ski ramps - all through glousestishire people wer giving us the finger and everything but we thought it was fuckin hilarious - theres actually no law against it and we thought it would take peoples minds off the fact that they will probably never get a normal life back together for about 5 years and that the insurance companies are gonna dick everyone up the ass what do you mean how are we coping - the -people who are flooded out are fuckin miserable and now that a big enough body of water to ski in is available on our doorstep we're lovin it !!
