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Topic History of: The flooding in Somerset
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In The Know (as always) |
honey!oh sugar sugar. wrote:
I don't think it needs to be reported as a major disaster. There was a woman featured on the news who was crying and wailing that her children were having to stay with grandparents! And she seemed quite angry.
They are alive and safe and she should be thankful.
They ALL seemed to make it to the pub last night !
see video - news.sky.com/story/1208498/somerset-floo...autiously-optimistic |
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andrew |
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2554324...-crisis-deepens.html
If this happened abroad tax money and aid will be sent within hours, I was told charity begins at home clearly that is bullshit. |
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honey!oh sugar sugar. |
I don't think it needs to be reported as a major disaster. There was a woman featured on the news who was crying and wailing that her children were having to stay with grandparents! And she seemed quite angry.
They are alive and safe and she should be thankful. |
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In The Know |
Pru wrote:
The reporters really are taking the pee with their mock indignation. Not one of them, as far as I know, predicted such a situation and broadcast any reports warning of it and denouncing politicians for not doing enough, yet now their only shouted question is 'Why didn't you do more months ago?' Because they were probably as clueless as you lot, you hypocritical idiots! Blame their civil servants if you must blame anyone.
And (until someone alters science and water flows uphill !) what are they to do?
Dredging rivers will have little effect (at enormous cost - for a handful of people).
Pumping water elsewhere ditto ... it will STILL find the lowest level !
They all claims that it has never happened before. Really?
"Well, it's not unusual for the area to flood. The latest widespread flooding of the Levels is just one in a long record of flood events.
Records show more than a third of the area (70,000 acres or 28,000 ha) was submerged in 1919. In the 2014 flood, it is estimated about 6,500 ha (16,000 acres), or about 10% of the Levels, are under water".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-26080597
So - the truth is - the current flooding is only about one sixth of the last major event ! |
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andrew |
Sadly it's going to get worse with thousands of more houses being built.
Lot's of empty homes that could be refurbished. |
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