floods again

[naturelover]

Anyone see the weather for tonight, dosnt look very good,those poor familys that got flooded last time have got it again,the rivers are bursting their banks while i am wrighting this,they also said the south east,and anglia could cop it this time,thats me.
When ever is it going to stop,makes you think about a certan film i remember watching,WATER WORLD spooky,has any one watched it that could be us soon if this rain dosnt pack it up.

[big bill]

You people have my deepest sympathy down in England with the floods when will the builders and goverment get it into there heads to stop building on the flood plains,money over peoples lives as normal no concern for the general public.
They cannot sell and in most cases I think will be unable to insure again after being flooded out already no justice

[paulchandler6]

The Thames here is slowly rising still and there are flood warnings in place along the river from north of Oxford to down my way.
I'm OK as I am quite high up above the flood area. Lets hope its not as bad as the summer floods of last year.

Paul

[Kayleigh]

There are far too many people on this Island..We are sinking

[Fourwings]

I feel for the poor folk that suffer flooding, I fear its a problem that may only get worse as a result of our rapidly changing climate.
It certainly makes me glad that I live on a hill, if we get floods where I live then the rest of Leicestershire would have to develop gills

[Brocker]

Originally Posted by paulchandler6

The Thames here is slowly rising still and there are flood warnings in place along the river from north of Oxford to down my way.
I'm OK as I am quite high up above the flood area. Lets hope its not as bad as the summer floods of last year.

Paul

I am the other end of the Thames and thankfully, no flood warnings in place here. Severe gale warnings though. I will have to watch the fences tonight

[honeybee]

We are bracing ourselves. We were without tap water in the summer but were not ourselves flooded although I know a lot of people who were. My grandmother lives near Tewkesbury and although she's high up enough not to get flooded, we couldn't get to see her because she was cut off. There are huge on going building developments going on in Gloucester and Tewkesbury on meadows and flood plains. They might not always get flooded but they put a huge demand on sewarage and drainage and really old houses are being flooded for the first time and there's decreasing land for the water to drain, just tarmac and concrete. I could moan on about loads of issues to do with the floods but I wont. I just feel sorry for all the poor people still living in caravans whos property's are just starting to dry out who may have to go through it all again.

[JeffH]

Originally Posted by big bill

... when will the builders and goverment get it into there heads to stop building on the flood plains...

Your right Bill - we're quite low lying here in our part of East Anglia (just a few feet above sea level) and parts of our village have suffered quite serious flooding twice in recent years, though fortunately we escaped it.

Despite that, right now one of the parts that was worst hit last time is having several hundred new houses built on it with very little sign of any significant drainage improvements and no flood protection what so ever - madness

Jeff

[agrumpycow]

I'm not particularly clued up on all this type of thing so hopefully someone can explain it to me:

I was under the impression that a lot of the floods we had in this area (Berkshire) last July were caused by the sheer amount of rain that fell in a short period of time so the drains couldn't cope.
Certainly areas here which got flooded were well above sea level and away from the usual flood plains along the Thames valley.

So this type of flooding is different from the type when rivers overflow due to persistent rain and, therefore, it makes no difference whether the land was on a flood plain or not.

Hope this makes sense, and I hope someone can clarify because I'm getting myself confused just thinking about it!

[naturelover]

Hi clair i have been told that the fens is below sea level,but touch wood we havnt had much flooding here,we are very flat as you no dought know so if our rivers burst their banks it shouldnt get that deep we hope,the thing is they have made so many flood ditches all around the fens so it seems to hold its own.