Cornwall isolated by storm

BenBurch said:
You lot got through the Blitz, you'll get through anything. :)
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That was three generations ago, now we're enfeebled by the socialist welfare state and our inability to own firearms for self defence ;).

I think I will be *very* busy collecting firewood over the next few days if I'm not weeping over the wreckage of my house and garage.
 
Professor Yaffle said:
Is the lack of dredging an actual contributor to the floods, or is it just a convenient thing to blame?
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It's very much just a convenient thing to blame. "I bought land in a flood plain, but it's definitely someone else's fault that it's now flooded."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-26135015
Giles Strother of the Berks, Bucks & Oxford Wildlife Trust, said: "Once the flood plain is full of water, it doesn't really make a difference whether you dredge or if you make space for the water, it fills up.
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Soapy Sam said:
Is it economically justifiable to keep dredging or does it make sense to move everyone out of the area? Coastal erosion and coastal flooding are realities that must be addressed and the answer may be to give up some territory.
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Already happening in some places.

anglolawyer said:
We should chuck our hand in and ask the Dutch to take over.
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Way ahead of you:
Elsewhere the first of a number of high capacity water pumps brought in from the Netherlands are due to be turned on in Somerset for the first time on Thursday.
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The Don said:
That was three generations ago, now we're enfeebled by the socialist welfare state and our inability to own firearms for self defence ;).

I think I will be *very* busy collecting firewood over the next few days if I'm not weeping over the wreckage of my house and garage.
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Consider driving some stakes upslope of the tree and cabling the tree to them.
 
BenBurch said:
Consider driving some stakes upslope of the tree and cabling the tree to them.
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I think the hurricane now blowing where the Don is may hamper this exercise. Plus, the average Brit is not equipped with stakes and chains nor the means of pile driving them into the ground. Plus you probably need planning permission or some such bull ****.
 
anglolawyer said:
I think the hurricane now blowing where the Don is may hamper this exercise. Plus, the average Brit is not equipped with stakes and chains nor the means of pile driving them into the ground. Plus you probably need planning permission or some such bull ****.
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I'd certainly need permission from the landowner to go onto his land and do this. Previous experience show that this will not be forthcoming. The previous houseowner wanted the landowner to trim this same which overhung the property. The guy who owned the land (and hence the tree) wanted the homeowner to pay for the work and to pay an access charge to the land of a couple of hundred pounds.
 
BenBurch said:
You lot got through the Blitz, you'll get through anything. :)
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I rather suspect the storms of the last two months have released many times the energy of all the bombs dropped during the Blitz.

And more on the way...
 
If you Brits are getting too much rain,please ship some over to California. We can use it........
 
The Don said:
I'd certainly need permission from the landowner to go onto his land and do this. Previous experience show that this will not be forthcoming. The previous houseowner wanted the landowner to trim this same which overhung the property. The guy who owned the land (and hence the tree) wanted the homeowner to pay for the work and to pay an access charge to the land of a couple of hundred pounds.
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This is Britain. In another 20-30 years we are led to believe there will be 5-10 million more of us squished up together on what's left of the place after the Atlantic hurricanes have chipped most of it away. For now we live cheek by jowl with our neighbours' trees looming over our properties, on the brink of crushing something. Americans simply cannot imagine the cramped conditions.

I trust that tree does not do its worst and that you and Mrs Don emerge unscathed this time.
 
On the other hand, some of us have suffered serious population loss and could do with a few more useful people. And we're having quite mild, tranquil weather right now too.
I see Winchester is in trouble. It was Chichester when I lived there. They need to talk to the Dutch.

Rolfe.
 
The Don said:
One of the proposals is to deliberately flood apparently less valuable land upstream. While I can see this making sense from a hydro-engineering point of view I can also see how it will play in the media with poor people accusing the government of deliberately flooding their land to protect richer people downstream.
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Already being done:

Giant sandbags have been placed in the River Itchen by the Environment Agency to slow its flow into Winchester and prevent flooding to 100 properties.

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The agency said it would cause about 300 acres of land to flood up to 4ft (1.2m) deep in water.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-26150006
 
Rolfe said:
On the other hand, some of us have suffered serious population loss and could do with a few more useful people.
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Population of Scotland currently appears to be at its highest level ever.

And we're having quite mild, tranquil weather right now too.
I see Winchester is in trouble. It was Chichester when I lived there. They need to talk to the Dutch.
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Both have canals that could be restored for drainage purposes (The Itchen Navigation and the Chichester canal). That said in the case of Chichester they instead made changes to the River Lavant.
 
I`ll try and keep up to date with this by listening to North Norfolk Digital...Mid Morning Matters I believe it is?
 
geni said:
Population of Scotland currently appears to be at its highest level ever.
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Indeed, it has started to recover, after a period of loss and stagnation while just about everywhere else was growing. Had about 20-odd % of the population of the union in 1707, only 8.4% now.

We need more people.

geni said:
Both have canals that could be restored for drainage purposes (The Itchen Navigation and the Chichester canal). That said in the case of Chichester they instead made changes to the River Lavant.
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The drains in Chichester are literally Roman, aren't they?

Rolfe.
 
Now it seems that the job cuts in the Environment Agency will be put on hold for 6 months.

The cynic in me thinks that 6 months is exactly the right amount of time after this year's floods and before next year's.
 
What are the odds there will still be a hosepipe ban in parts of England in August?
 
GlennB said:
What are the odds there will still be a hosepipe ban in parts of England in August?
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Even money. Thank goodness they can blame the incompetence and wrangling on climate change. If the Dutch pished around as much as we do they would all have drowned long ago.
 
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