The floods

[Questions]

Now I can appreciate having your house flooded is a pretty traumatic time for anyone.

But......................................... The way the tv stations have reported it.


''A disaster on an unprecented scale'' I heard today.

Tsunamis and earthquakes are disasters.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

It pushes up the ratings.

I imagine we have had more airwave hours than the crisis in Darfur...

 

[Questions]

It pushes up the ratings.

I imagine we have had more airwave hours than the crisis in Darfur...

There was one elderly man who had refused to be airlifted out of his upstairs window by the air and sea rescue helocopter ( on sky I think ) only to walk out of his front door ten minutes later with a puzzled look on his face when confronted by rows of cameramen on the dry ground opposite.

Made me larf.

 

[hitony]

My 26 year old son had to be rescued by the fire brigade and the police about 2 weeks ago in sheffield, we worried for his life at the time, thank god he is ok, i had to ring my sister yesterday morning at 6.30am as she lives in a village near oxford, the village is flooded but thank god she and her family are ok.


If things are a bit more close to home you might appreciate things a bit more

 

[Gully]

If anyone doubts the scale of what has been reported on the TV then they are welcome to come to Gloucester and I will give them a guided tour for free...I have the week off work anyway, the place where I work has been closed down until the power and water are restored, maybe next week...or maybe not!

 

[goldstone]

Answer me this.

Why do people choose to live by rivers or in flood plains? There are plenty of houses to choose from. Why allow even the faintest possibility that you may get flooded? Have to say I cannot sympathise too much with folks whose houses are flooded when it's bloody obvious it's going to happen.

DON'T LIVE THERE. IDIOT!

 

[Questions]

The floods in the north a few weeks ago were long overdue. It finally gave a chance to all those folk who won a speedboat on Bulleye with Jim Bowen all those years ago an opportunity to test them out.

 

[Questions]

If anyone doubts the scale of what has been reported on the TV then they are welcome to come to Gloucester and I will give them a guided tour for free...I have the week off work anyway, the place where I work has been closed down until the power and water are restored, maybe next week...or maybe not!

Paid holiday ?

 

[hitony]

Paid holiday ?

Gynacologist

 

[Gully]

Answer me this.

Why do people choose to live by rivers or in flood plains? There are plenty of houses to choose from. Why allow even the faintest possibility that you may get flooded? Have to say I cannot sympathise too much with folks whose houses are flooded when it's bloody obvious it's going to happen.

DON'T LIVE THERE. IDIOT!

Because anytime you try and build something on a nice hilly area there is someone like LDC who will oppose it.

 

[Gully]

Paid holiday ?

Technically it is free time as, fortunately, I get paid an annual salary...but take it from me that considering the circumstances I would rather be at work.

 

[Timbo]

There was a woman on the telly yesterday in floods of tears saying that the three pans of water she had were going to have to last her for 3 weeks! Get a f***ing grip woman of course it isn't!! Nobodies going to let you sit there and die. You're not in Africa!

Then there was another bit about a bloke getting a firemans lift out of his house yet the water barely covered the sole of the firemans wellies.

Some of these whinging, over dramatic fuckers need to take a good look at whats happening around the world. Treat yourself to a couple of weeks in Somalia. A bit of water in your living room following a couple of wet weeks in Tewkesbury would soon be the last of your worries.

 

[the right footed denilson]

Answer me this.

Why do people choose to live by rivers or in flood plains? There are plenty of houses to choose from. Why allow even the faintest possibility that you may get flooded? Have to say I cannot sympathise too much with folks whose houses are flooded when it's bloody obvious it's going to happen.

DON'T LIVE THERE. IDIOT!

Because it's our HOME you arrogant ****. This wasn't 'obvious'- it's the worst floods to hit the area in history.

There is a possibility the coast might be hit by a Tsunami- are you stupid for living there?!

 

[Dr Q]

Answer me this.

Why do people choose to live by rivers or in flood plains? There are plenty of houses to choose from. Why allow even the faintest possibility that you may get flooded? Have to say I cannot sympathise too much with folks whose houses are flooded when it's bloody obvious it's going to happen.

DON'T LIVE THERE. IDIOT!

duh ...Coz historically rivers were sites of communication, trade and sources of ..... guess what ... er water! Most major towns and cities in Uk .. maybe the world .. are on rivers!

next time a fuckin big storm surge wipes a couple of miles of south coast coastal plain it might not be so funny for some people!

 

[tip top]

There was a woman on the telly yesterday in floods of tears saying that the three pans of water she had were going to have to last her for 3 weeks! Get a f***ing grip woman of course it isn't!! Nobodies going to let you sit there and die. You're not in Africa!

Then there was another bit about a bloke getting a firemans lift out of his house yet the water barely covered the sole of the firemans wellies.

Some of these whinging, over dramatic fuckers need to take a good look at whats happening around the world. Treat yourself to a couple of weeks in Somalia. A bit of water in your living room following a couple of wet weeks in Tewkesbury would soon be the last of your worries.

Word mate.

I know how bad it gets as my parents lived in Uckfield when the floods happened a few years back, but this media coverage and the dramatic locals are way over the top.

f*** me, how are people going to cope when something REALLY SERIOUS happens.

 

[Gully]

I would regard the threat of being made homeless or losing your livelehood as being "Really Serious", but hell, what do I know...I only live in Gloucester and have friends and colleagues who have had this happen to them.

 

[nail-Z]

There was one woman featured on the "ITV West News" tonight who went back to her home for the first time and took along the local news cameras + crew. She burst into tears when she saw there was still 2ft of water in her home and asked how the 'authorities' could let this happen.

I suppose she wants them to put a roof over the county?

 

[Cian]

Solution: Live on hills. The estates either side of me flood every two-three years, but I'm 6 foot higher up. I'll at least get enough time to move everything upstairs, probably take the carpets up, turn off the power, move the cars to another town, etc, etc before it comes...

 

[Gully]

MYOB, I grew up on a hill in West Sussex, the village we were in flooded on a fairly regular basis (as anyone else who has lived in or around Storrington will testify)...that was no guarantee against having your home flooded. A family living over the road from us were flooded several times when the rainwater flowed down the hill, veered to the right, through their house and out the other side.

I think it is a little simplistic, and unreasonable, to say to people that they should only build on hilly ground or away from rivers or other large expanses of water, in case of flooding. Most of East Anglia is barely above sea level but people live and work there, partly because it is some of the most fertile land our country has and there have to be people there to farm it.

 

[Cian]

Make that the top of a hill, then...

As goes the estates surrounding mine, one has a motorway drain in to it and the other is on the flood plain of a river that runs right through it - its only a stream in dry weather, but it sure as hell asserts its river-ness when it rains. Normal height is about 8 foot down from the floor height of the houses.