Snowing on here?

[Bluefish]

Shouldn't that be rain, with a fair bit of flooding going on, my works will have got flooded again, Tis in Whalley Lancs, as it was a couple of weeks ago, no doubt worse than last time though, some serious shit going on right now?

[nanotm]

Bluefish

yeah and now they realised the flood barriers are useless because the buildings didn't get maintained for years just like the rivers didn't get dredged its getting worse, I hope people are safe in those areas, its never nice to get cut off in the floods although I used to enjoy fields that got flooded then froze in my youth I cant help but feel sorry for those getting washed out at this time of year.

[Bluefish]

And the story where they had to remove the flood defences and allow areas to be flooded, that's a serious WTF?

[nanotm]

well it happens a lot in the past where the danger is that the defences will be overwhelmed and become inoperable they lift the barriers, the real problem is that the barrier was down at all when it was clearly never going to be of any use, had it remained open the entire time there would of been no sudden tidal wave surging through greatly increasing the dangers and damage the area would have just gently flooded, and likely to a much lesser extent.

the EA has spent since 98 telling the country that the waterways are self scouring or its too expensive to dredge, yet they spanked hundreds of millions on ineffective flood defences and have caused the majority of the problems by allowing building on flood plains diverting watercourses and creating new flood zones where none had previously existed, then they did away with all the old pump houses (the things used to flood farmland rather than houses) and petitioned the EU to pass laws banning dredging all the while increasing their running costs day to day and grabbing more public funds to do nothing but harm homes with.....

I remember the EA spent 20 million building a tidal barrier on a river back in the late 80's to prevent tidal surges laying waste to homes and business's, 18 years later they pulled it down as it hadn't been needed (at a cost of another 20 million) and 6 months later the area flooded, the tidal surge destroyed 200 buildings and wiped out 30 businesses, the answer was to replace the old tidal barrier with a new bigger one at a cost of another 60 million, all that had been needed was a motor replacing at a cost of £50k ...... had they bothered to have dredged the rivers in the area the barrier probably wouldn't of ben needed either way ....

they have done the same thing in the north of the country, wasted hundreds of millions doing nothing good instead of doing what everyone knows is necessary and doing it routinely to protect the nation, the only way this event could of been ok would be if all the flooding had centred on bradistan /

[Bobsbeer]

I like the snow on here. Looks a lot better than the pissing rain out of the window. Having said that, today has been lovely and sunny. Makes a nice change.

[Greg]

Bradistan

[Perpetua]

Dec 27, 2015 11:53:25 GMT Bluefish said:

Shouldn't that be rain, with a fair bit of flooding going on, my works will have got flooded again, Tis in Whalley Lancs, as it was a couple of weeks ago, no doubt worse than last time though, some serious shit going on right now?

Isn't there just . . . . and any of us that aren't affected can really only be thankful.

The news coverage of what these poor devils are having to contend with is just too awful.

[Chrissie]

It's been raining on & off here (more on than off) for days

My heart goes out to all those that have been affected by the floods.

[-V-]

At last it's stopped snowing, I can read the Forum now lol

[jim750]

The floods have been bad in my village Croston some houses were under nearly a meter. My house got hit luckily I got most of the valuables upstairs and the Mrs and baby to her mum's