Flooding in the North of England

[DanP]

Watching the footage on BBC and it's horrifying. Really hope no one on here is affected by it!

Dan

 

[Alpha1]

Yes it is awful. We need to start building evolutionary flood defences now the weather is f**ked.

 

[Mr20to5]

Living up in Carlisle it has been a wee bit damp over the last month.

Thankfully, not personally affected having bought a house on a hill, following the first massive flood in 2005. However there are literally hundreds and hundreds that are, Driving to work through some of the affected streets show the extent of the devastation and it will be literally months and months, sometimes over a year before they all get back to normality.

I think Martin is going to need to invest in a boat to get my cab up to me!!

 

[Alpha1]

Man that sounds terrible :'(

 

[gunblade]

they need to drill massive bore holes in areas that have issues,they can then use them as reservoirs in times of drought

 

[bbz149]

Well I cant moan down SE, heating has not been on all Christmas and I've just been out cutting the Lawn

Just a shame it's at the expense of the shat weather up North!

 

[Russ J]

If anyone knows Leeds at all,there is a very large area of 'Kirkstall Road' thats completly flooded...I've lived in Leeds all my life (45 years) and never known of that type of flooding around there...Apparently the river Aire banks burst which runs parallel to the Leeds and Liverpool canel...

The whole area thats flooded is a large leisure complex with a Vue Cinema,Frankie & Bennys restaurent,Harvester restaurent,Hollywood Bowl etc...the whole of that complex is flooded,and the worse thing is that there's one of the new Starwars Battlepod cabs in the Hollywood bowl as well

 

[ben76]

No flooding here. Usually heavy rain makes our road flood and apparently our house flooded before we moved into it... In council fashion they just concreted the floor after ripping up the floor boards so when we moved in they had to raise the damp proof course... Tbh (to fate things!) it's been ok recently and I feel so sorry for anyone affected by the current crap going on

- Ben

 

[Body pop]

Sounds and looks horrific.
Shows how vulnerable we actually are .
Hopefully the worst is behind those affected

 

[abaxas]

Living up in Carlisle it has been a wee bit damp over the last month.

Thankfully, not personally affected having bought a house on a hill, following the first massive flood in 2005. However there are literally hundreds and hundreds that are, Driving to work through some of the affected streets show the extent of the devastation and it will be literally months and months, sometimes over a year before they all get back to normality.

I think Martin is going to need to invest in a boat to get my cab up to me!!

As another Cumbria (Alston) it was amazing to see what you were about to get. It was proper ark building weather with sadly more to come tomorrow

 

[lesdawsonslovechild]

Several factors at work here: Increased building on floodplains means that more people now live in vulnerable places, tory cuts to flood defences under the guise of 'austerity' (to save a few million the estimated cost of the flooding is now over 5 billion!) & flood defence strategies that havent taken climate change into account.