We are getting flooded again!
Some places are supposed to be worse that July!!
Road are turning into rivers.
Luckily our house is ok, but less that a mile away some people are already bailing the water out of their houses!!
This time also sleet and snow and blizzards and very cold. Temperatures are dropping and there could be really bad frost and ice on roads, adn the gritters havent been able to get out!!
They are already starting to close the motorway
To think I have been moaning because we have rain today. Just hope things do not get any worse and people manage to stay safe.
Best wishes to anyone who may be affected.
Lorna
I am in a bad flood area in Kent - not flooded yet but the rivers are right up to the tops and so are the ditches, another days rain and it could well flood. Are we having a high tide? I know where I live the water can come up as the tide rises, yet I am a good 30 miles from the sea.
I hope the rains stop and as few houses as possible get flooded for a second time. It must be truly soul destroying to see your home washed away all over again.
Good Luck XXXX
EAK!!
Whats the risk to your homes, do you need to start moving things?
Drove along the sea front (Southend) this afternoon and remarked to daughter 1 that it was an extremley high tide-waves crashing on to the pavement :o Glad I live up the road a bit.
My heart goes out to the folk under threat, the flooding is bad enough without the cold.
I am listening to the radio, lots of people are stranded in the snow on Crickley Hill on the edge of the cotswolds!
My son was delayed coming home from school as they got stuck in blizzards and floods.
And now a few places in GLoucestershire have had power cuts.
We will be ok. But I feel for anyone around here that has been flooded again! A lot of people recently moved back into their houses that were flooded in July! And its happened again!
Big issue at the moment is building new houses 50,000+, planning to build on floodplains!! How many times do we need this to happen before they see sense.
Hopefully noone will be flooded out this time - hopes are with you.
R U Sure your not going to be affected???
I would be making up a flask of hot water and a flask of hot soup just in case and moving a couple of things upstairs :(
When people come to renew their insurance it will crucify their bank account. I live in a flood area, and even though my house has never flooded or have never claimed, because I am in that area - my insurance has gone through the roof.
Someone said about the 50,000 houses - about a mile away from here it is notorious for really deep flooding over a large area - THE COUNCIL WANT TO BUILD 700 HOUSES THERE - does this ever make sense?
I hope the rain stops for these poor people.
It amazes me to see these building firms are still building on flood plains, are they 'brain dead' or what.
Vony.
Its not only the building on the flood plains its building everywhere that is covering the green sites with tarmac and causing the water to run off in all directions because it cant soak away and head of under ground . I hope your all still dry ;)
Quote from: ugly gourd on January 12, 2008, 07:57:28
Its not only the building on the flood plains its building everywhere that is covering the green sites with tarmac and causing the water to run off in all directions because it cant soak away and head of under ground . I hope your all still dry ;)
Add to that the results of long term chemical fertilisation of agricultural crops. If there are no bulky organics added to the soil, it's water holding capacity is seriously diminished, and if the land can't hold the water then it runs straight off. A return to organic principles would make a great difference, I feel.
I thought I was going to get caught out again last night trying to drive home to Gloucester but I managed although there was a lot of flooding on the A and B roads.
It wasn't as bad as the flooding back in the summer but it was an awful feeling wondering if it would be and praying that it would stop raining, we were lucky in the summer, when the floods came our house was just out of the worst hit areas about 1/2 mile down the road.
I hope no one was badly hit last night.
:-\
Quote from: Vony on January 12, 2008, 07:25:03
It amazes me to see these building firms are still building on flood plains, are they 'brain dead' or what.
Vony.
No mate, just greedy. >:(
It appears the The forest of dean and south glos got the worst of the rain, and the cotswolds the snow,
So we were lucky.
The problem is that when they build on areas likely to flood they import thousands of tonnes of fill to raise the ground level for the new site by many metres. This makes sure that the new houses do not flood but they do not consider the existing surrounding houses that suddenly become low lying and subject to flooding.
I agree morton but they only worry about their new builds the other properties are out of sight out of mind
I can't understand why they've not mentioned it on the news last night, hope everyone's okay.. :)
we live in South Glos ,luckily on high ground but had to cross a flooded bridge on our way home yesterday! it didn,t stop all day (decided lotty was out )and there was a lot of water on the roads. Yate is one of the places they want to build thousands of new houses!! there are a lot of natural springs around the area used to have a lot of mines and quarries and it has been known for big holes to appear in gardens
what we need is less people not more houses ( lets shoot the planners first)
marg
There is another weather warning been issued for gales and heavy rain and there are 9 flood warnings.
Fingers crossed that your all going to be ok :)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7187628.stm
:( our lotties are under water again, our rivers are high, and our local paper reports 650 new homes to be built on a flood plain.... madness
Sorry to hear that AS, have you lost much?
Please take a huge cyber hug from me for all of you under threat or even water itself, I broke down when I read this,surely no one has to go through this again. We are not on the watch for this time around but I still feel for you all out there that are. Most folks here in Hull are not back in their homeseven now and our school is still closed for another 6 weeks . Reading this is just too much, for all of you who may be in the way of this latest deluge,I am thinking of you sincerely and wish you good luck.XX Jeannine
looks like wales has ben badly hit, any updates from anywhere else?
It sad to think about but as many of us sit in our home watching T.V. I tend to look at the walls and wonder what it would be like with two or three feet of water swilling around.
My thoughts certainly go out to these poor folk and hope they have home insurance - if they can get it?
Vony.
A couple of the villages around Hull are in danger, the water is creeping up to the door of our head teachers house(still not back in from last time) her builders have been sandbagging today,the scoop is if it continues to rain she could well be flooded XX Jeannine
oh Jeannine that's awful, lets hope it doesn't flood, it really is incredible that it could happen twice in one year.
Just seen on the news that homes and businesses have been flooded in Leeds and Huddersfield
Is everyone ok?
I believe small scale evacuations have already started in some areas, and the water is only meant to peak tomorrow. Hopefully this will not be as bad as before and damage will be kept to a minimum.
Once the immediate danger is over I do hope the affected communities will band together and start lobbying for more effective flood defences and a commonsense approach to new building projects (which seem to be the worst affected whenever it floods).