State of Emergency declared in Hull

[Dave the OAP]

Rain has flooded out large areas......


one man dead trapped in a drain.

This is dreadful....Yorkshire and lancashire areas put on high alert

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

I bet its Forster.... Sake.

 

[Woodchip]

I hope Forster is save.

Seriously... YIKES! That's shocking.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

I bet its Forster.... Sake.

I was going to say the same thing!

In all seriousness, we have these built up areas with poor drainage (covered in concrete and tarmac) and face these floods every year, but what do the authorities do about it?

 

[BensGrandad]

Rain has flooded out large areas......


one man dead trapped in a drain.

This is dreadful....Yorkshire and lancashire areas put on high alert

Glad I live in England then


Joking aside that is a terrible situation but one would have thought with modern day technology and knowledge etc situations like that could be avoided or preperations made to minimise the effect.

 

[HampshireSeagulls]

Cue the email asking for voluntary donation to the disaster fund, and making fun of how poor they are "oop North". Anyone got a copy so we can pre-empt it? You know, the one which says that certain parts of <insert name of town here> have been improved, and that 50p will buy a necklace from Elizabeth Duke, etc, etc.

 

[hitony]

My 26 year old son lives in Sheffield, he rang us from his mobile a little while ago, he cant get home and is stuck in the car................obviously we are quite a bit worried

 

[Yorkie]

Our niece is having great difficulties in Sheffield. It is quite grim up there.

 

[Springal]

Our niece is having great difficulties in Sheffield. It is quite grim up there.

I thought it was always like that up there

 

[Yorkie]

I thought it was always like that up there

It's worse at the moment. We've been talking to our brother in law tonight.

 

[hitony]

It's worse at the moment. We've been talking to our brother in law tonight.

My sons battery has now run out on his mobile phone, his Girlfriend has rung us in tears as shes really worried, they actually live high up so she is fine, I hope to god he is ok

 

[ali jenkins]

Did anyone else watch casualty on saturday?

Spooky coincidence!

 

[hitony]

Still not heard from him, really worried now, its terrible there, its been on sky news alot

 

[Bry Nylon]

Still not heard from him, really worried now, its terrible there, its been on sky news alot

He'll be fine Tony. Maybe a bit cold and pissed off, but he'll be fine.

 

[Yorkie]

Still not heard from him, really worried now, its terrible there, its been on sky news alot

Where abouts is he?

 

[bristolseagull]

pics?

 

[hitony]

He'll be fine Tony. Maybe a bit cold and pissed off, but he'll be fine.

Thanks Bry, as it happens we have just had a text from his girlfriend saying he has finally got home, very wet and tired, but safe.

Yorkie, he was stuck in the area near Brightside, but all seems well now (not so sure i can say the same for his car though), thank god

 

[Yorkie]

pics?

That is Brightside Lane

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/6239782.stm

 

[Starry]

if the dam bursts it'll hit the m1 and within 15 minute flood that whole residential area.
our niece had the to spend the night at work in sheffield. she couldn't get out the building, savile street and the roads all around were flooded so no chance for anyone to pick her up or aything.

they are cold, hungry and miserable. a helicopter and rescue people on boats were rescuing people but they are young, fit and able so were not a priority. not sure if she is still stuck.

 

[Gully]

I think that they said on the news last night that this month has been the wettest ever on record and it isn't finished yet! I had to drive through floods to get to work yesterday, but nothing near as serious as what has been on the TV, seems like we were lucky here.