|
Forums65
Topics76,553
Posts1,034,397
Members15,044
| |
Most Online244,501
May 17th, 2026
|
|
|
9 members (2 invisible),
130,383
guests, and
1,415
robots. |
|
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
M |
T |
W |
T |
F |
S |
S |
|
|
|
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
|
5
|
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
|
12
|
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
|
19
|
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
|
26
|
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 3,056 Likes: 2
Forum Master
|
OP
Forum Master
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 3,056 Likes: 2 |
Just watching news and really feel for these poor people getting flooded out year after year. It seems a regular occurrence now so I think they will really have to think about building on stilts well some kind if rubber pillars to take you upwards in these areas, don’t think they can stop it happening...
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,034
Forum Guide
|
|
Forum Guide
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,034 |
I have a friend in Bewdley; some new town houses were built a while ago close to the river Severn. The ground floor was just covered parking for car, and bin store. Accommodation was on 1st and 2nd floors. When a flood warning came, it was just a case of driving the car up to the car park at the top of the hill and tying up the bins. Can't speak for drains, but living spaces were safe from immersion. Doesn't solve the problem for older properties, but newbuilds should be designed to deal with it. The land where that new estate by Fender Farm was built was mounded up a good few feet before building started.
Last edited by Greenwood; 1st Aug 2019 6:36pm.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 3,056 Likes: 2
Forum Master
|
|
OP
Forum Master
Joined: Aug 2013
Posts: 3,056 Likes: 2 |
That sounds sensible Greenwood, that’s the way to go.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,582 Likes: 39
Wiki Master
|
|
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,582 Likes: 39 |
£800m a year spent on flood defence and yet the damage each year still tops £2bn, I guess they spend most of it on meetings and presentations!
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,034
Forum Guide
|
|
Forum Guide
Joined: May 2011
Posts: 1,034 |
Glad I'm not anywhere near Whaley Bridge tonight... now THAT'S flooding in a big way - possibly, but hopefully not. Obviously I hope fervently that the dam holds, but if it's breached that's going to put things into a whole different league - very scary indeed.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,044
Forum Guardian
|
|
Forum Guardian
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 4,044 |
The Govt and EA pulled a blinder putting the dam under the Canal and River Trust ownership.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,582 Likes: 39
Wiki Master
|
|
Wiki Master
Joined: Jul 2008
Posts: 14,582 Likes: 39 |
And local council putting the community centre and school straight beneath it! The Govt and EA pulled a blinder putting the dam under the Canal and River Trust ownership. Even cleverer than that, its a charity, that means they get money from the lottery and donations from the public. Does this Government actually spend any of the money it gets, British Waterways used to be wholly owned by the Government.
There's a real danger that the left will drag Britain back to the 1970s, with secure well-paid jobs, ample housing, properly-funded NHS and social care, free tuition, student grants, final salary pensions, affordable rail fares and fabulous films and music. David Osland 2025 We don't do charity in Germany, we pay taxes. Charity is a failure of governments' responsibilities - Henning Wehn https://ddue.uk
|
|
|
Click to View Topic.
|
|
|
Posts: 2,371
Joined: April 2009
|
|
|
There are no members with birthdays on this day. |
|
|
|
