Re the young lad who had just brought his first house.
Fortunately, unless he has spun a dodgy deal or was unable to get flood cover (unlikely since I don't think it was a well known flood area), mortgage companies wont hand over the cash until you've got what they consider adequate insurance in place. Something we've just been through as we had to send the policy paperwork over to our solicitor before they could complete the sale.
I just hope that in order to save some cash he didn't then cancel it once he got the keys.
ahhh, just got in to find my plastic greenhouse, which was tied to the fence and had heavy items propped against it, on the floor with my tiny seedlings thrown out of their seed trays. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Sorry needed that. I will just have to start again.
As far as I'm aware there has never been a case of so many storms following each other so quickly and on top of an already wet winter that has saturated the ground so it can absorb no more water.
A hydrology expert on the news today said that no amount of dredging would have saved the Somerset Levels from flooding in these conditions and the current climate trend is for wetter, stormier winters. As for the Severn and Thames basins, a lot of the problem is from what is happening higher up nearer the source and the inability of the ground to absorb water. Springs bubbling up through floors and gatdens are not about river management but soil saturation.
I think that councils could and should have called in the army earlier to help with pumping and sandbags but I also think that any building along rivers and flood plains and catchment areas should be required to have flood defence in mind and raise ground floor levels. The Dutch manage to do it so the technology is there.
I also think that there needs to be joined up thinking in land management from farming techiques and crops grown to industrial and housing developments using porous materials in landscaping and for parking.
I feel desperately sorry for all the people who have been flooded, their businesses and jobs, their pets and livestock and the wildlife. I hope they get all the help they need to recover when the rain does finally stop and they can dry out and repair their homes and lives.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Thanks Dove and MrsG, I've tried to save a few, but if they don't survive, Then I shall try again, you are right there is plenty of time . I live on the south coast and the wind has been so strong. Every night we can here things banging over in everyone's gardens, and we now share our garden with four of our neighbours, because so many panels are down.
But we are not under water, so we a lucky! Hopefully this weather will change soon.
Magical Meerkat when all these storms have passed maybe you and your neighbours could consider planting hedges between your properties, this would be a great opportunity to link your gardens, they are cheaper than fencing and won't blow down. Even cheaper if you bulk buy.
Yes, Obelixx, that is a reasoned and reasonable argument. As with so many things we need to have more planning and less reacting when things get too bad.
State of the roads, public transport, anyone?
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Re the young lad who had just brought his first house.
Fortunately, unless he has spun a dodgy deal or was unable to get flood cover (unlikely since I don't think it was a well known flood area), mortgage companies wont hand over the cash until you've got what they consider adequate insurance in place. Something we've just been through as we had to send the policy paperwork over to our solicitor before they could complete the sale.
I just hope that in order to save some cash he didn't then cancel it once he got the keys.
ahhh, just got in to find my plastic greenhouse, which was tied to the fence and had heavy items propped against it, on the floor with my tiny seedlings thrown out of their seed trays. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Sorry needed that. I will just have to start again.
Oh dear MMeerkat - sympathies - rotten storm - never mind, plenty of time yet to start again - when the weather improves
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
ah so sorry magicalM, scream away, cry a little then get gardening all over again.
As far as I'm aware there has never been a case of so many storms following each other so quickly and on top of an already wet winter that has saturated the ground so it can absorb no more water.
A hydrology expert on the news today said that no amount of dredging would have saved the Somerset Levels from flooding in these conditions and the current climate trend is for wetter, stormier winters. As for the Severn and Thames basins, a lot of the problem is from what is happening higher up nearer the source and the inability of the ground to absorb water. Springs bubbling up through floors and gatdens are not about river management but soil saturation.
I think that councils could and should have called in the army earlier to help with pumping and sandbags but I also think that any building along rivers and flood plains and catchment areas should be required to have flood defence in mind and raise ground floor levels. The Dutch manage to do it so the technology is there.
I also think that there needs to be joined up thinking in land management from farming techiques and crops grown to industrial and housing developments using porous materials in landscaping and for parking.
I feel desperately sorry for all the people who have been flooded, their businesses and jobs, their pets and livestock and the wildlife. I hope they get all the help they need to recover when the rain does finally stop and they can dry out and repair their homes and lives.
Thanks Dove and MrsG, I've tried to save a few, but if they don't survive, Then I shall try again, you are right there is plenty of time
. I live on the south coast and the wind has been so strong. Every night we can here things banging over in everyone's gardens, and we now share our garden with four of our neighbours, because so many panels are down.
But we are not under water, so we a lucky! Hopefully this weather will change soon.
Well said obelixx.
Magical Meerkat when all these storms have passed maybe you and your neighbours could consider planting hedges between your properties, this would be a great opportunity to link your gardens, they are cheaper than fencing and won't blow down. Even cheaper if you bulk buy.
Yes, Obelixx, that is a reasoned and reasonable argument. As with so many things we need to have more planning and less reacting when things get too bad.
State of the roads, public transport, anyone?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Well thank goodness we have this thread. We'd have no new members if this was on all the other threads.
Hope all are enjoying a rant. Bet it goes quiet as soon as Spring is here.
Yes because we'll all be in the garden!