The floods

[Marc]

It pushes up the ratings.

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

nail.on.the.mother.f***ing.head



News TV can f*** off for all I care

 

[Dover]

I know someone whose house flodded last Friday in Brighton, and I worried for an hour of so when the water lapped around my back door last Friday.

This can happen to anyone. The drains, flood plains, and aquafers must be full to brimming. anyone in Britan is liable to flooding at present.

 

[ditchy]

Alot les flooding would happen if we spent just a tad more money on maintanance of drains etc.... check not blocked with leaves rubbish etc so that a decent flow can happen .. Gone are the days when the street cleaner would come down street and actually pump the drains and clear them ... havent seen that in many a year . .. Im not saying that would stop the flooding but could prevent alot of it .

 

[goldstone]

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?!

My point still the same. If your home is next to a river or on a flood plain you will probably get flooded at some stage. So don't complain. Prepare for it. If you don't want to run the risk of getting flooded don't live in such a location.

I have never had my home flooded. Probably never will. I will never ever live on low lying land.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Well bully for you Mr Goldstone. To say 'why live there, there are plenty of other houses' is a ridiculous nonsense. Did you not know that there is a huge national housing shortage?

There are not 'plenty of other houses' at all. I agree its not the huge disaster some of the TV channels are making it out to be, but on a personal level for these people it must be pretty f***ing devastating. Why make light of it?

 

[goldstone]

Well bully for you Mr Goldstone. To say 'why live there, there are plenty of other houses' is a ridiculous nonsense. Did you not know that there is a huge national housing shortage?

There are not 'plenty of other houses' at all. I agree its not the huge disaster some of the TV channels are making it out to be, but on a personal level for these people it must be pretty f***ing devastating. Why make light of it?

I'm not making light of it. But if they had been smarter they would have lived on a hill. If no one bought houses near rivers or on flood plains then they'd stop building them there.

When people come to choose a house to buy or rent there's always choice. So why the hell choose the one next to the river or on the flood plain. Do your research and avoid them like the plague. Worth the effort I think.

 

[the right footed denilson]

I'm not making light of it. But if they had been smarter they would have lived on a hill. If no one bought houses near rivers or on flood plains then they'd stop building them there.

When people come to choose a house to buy or rent there's always choice. So why the hell choose the one next to the river or on the flood plain. Do your research and avoid them like the plague. Worth the effort I think.

Are you really that stupid?!

Dozens of towns and cities are built on rivers and floodplains, even our capital city. That is where communties are built. Both Gloucester and Tewkesbury are ancient dwellings whose economies and growth were driven by their location. We can't simply 'up sticks'. Furthermore, Gloucestershire is in a valley, the towns are in the basin. There is no alternative. Or we could all move to Brighton and force all you locals out by hiking up house prices even further?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I'm not making light of it. But if they had been smarter they would have lived on a hill. If no one bought houses near rivers or on flood plains then they'd stop building them there.

When people come to choose a house to buy or rent there's always choice. So why the hell choose the one next to the river or on the flood plain. Do your research and avoid them like the plague. Worth the effort I think.

Do you think that the hundreds of households on council estates flooded out in Sheffield and Hull had a choice, too?

"No, we don't want that council flat thanks, we want one on a hill"

And as for not building on any particular type of site - the developers will build where they can find space and get permission. There is a massive shortage of available building land on our overpopulated island. Did you not notice that finding a site for a stadium was 'quite hard'?

Also, these water levels are unpecedented in many areas. There's 4-500 year old cottages flooded out. Those pesky 16th century builders should have 'done their research' eh?

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

People want to live near water. It is as simple as that. For London they put in the Thames Barrier - but for which parts of London would be regularly under water. London got the investment.

 

[ditchy]

People want to live near water. It is as simple as that. For London they put in the Thames Barrier - but for which parts of London would be regularly under water. London got the investment.

Thames barrier was built to protect the city of london !

 

[goldstone]

And another thing, why build an electricity sub-station adjacent to a river that floods and then battle for hours to prevent it being inundated and cutting electricity supplies to thousands of people?

Half a brain would suggest locating such a facility in a place that doesn't flood. The authorities that make these decisions must have no brains. Where's their common sense?

 

[Gully]

They now have use of that incredible thing, hindsight, I suspect that we will see either a major improvement in anti-flood measures around electricity sub-stations/waterworks or their relocation to higher ground.

 

[the right footed denilson]

And another thing, why build an electricity sub-station adjacent to a river that floods and then battle for hours to prevent it being inundated and cutting electricity supplies to thousands of people?

Half a brain would suggest locating such a facility in a place that doesn't flood. The authorities that make these decisions must have no brains. Where's their common sense?

Hahahah

You're a prize cock.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Do you think 'Goldstone' is actually that old woman on the news? "How could the authorities allow this to happen?"

 

[bhaexpress]

You have to bear in mind that the recent rainfall is of near unprecedented proportions and thus most of the flooding has been totally unexpected. I just wonder how many people here would like to try going without power for a weeks let along running water.

I did both earlier this year but I was in another country. Believe me it wasn't much fun but at least I knew it would happen and what's more I wasn't looking after children.

 

[Gully]

Floodblog - Day 8

Still no running water in Gloucester, almost a week after the taps ran dry, fortunately everyone now has power. Have to say that life is settling into a routine, this involves a daily trip to the bowser round the corner to collect water for cooking and washing (we can get bottled water for drinking), at least we don't have to walk miles to collect it like in many parts of the World.

I have placed a dustbin under a leaky gutter, this collects enough water to fill the toilet cistern and water the plants in my greenhouse, I am starting to come round to the idea that we should make more use of "grey water" than we do already. How about every new house having some means of collecting rain water for use where purity is not an issue, maybe the Government should give grants or tax breaks to construction companies who do this.

We all take it for granted that there will be fresh running water whenever we turn on the tap, it is only at times when nothing comes out that you rethink how much water you really need to use and what you do with it. Hopefully we will have our water restored by next weekend, which will be nice, I really miss my shower in the morning.

 

[Buzzer]

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.

oh do belt up. Yes, it's all relative but for the people concerned who have seen their possessions all ruined it's a f***ing disaster.

Tell you what mate, next time you or a friend breaks a limb and expects treatment, pop over to the Killing Fields of Cambodia to see paraplegics on glorified skateboards.

A broken bone or 2 will be the least of your worries.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

Some people on here have been pretty harsh, and heartless. You cannot always compare misery in simplistic ways that a flooded family is Gloucester is not suffering as much as a flooded family in Bangladesh, they both still bring misery.

I know a couple of people in Apperley (Glos) & Tewkesbury. I don't know them very well but enough to wonder how they are getting on and enough to put a 'personal' slant on things.

And then there's Gully, who I only know from here, but again, it gives a personal insight.

When the media circus has gone, these people will need many months just to repair the physical damage. Some of them will be left with mental scars too & there's always the threat it may happen again.

All this may have a profound effect on house prices and house proces govern so much in this economy.

Then, as the waters subside, the bodies are discovered. now three, as far as I know. Are those deaths less tragic just because they are in the UK?