01-06-2018, 09:11 PM
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Re: I live on a hill...
Originally Posted by Pesta
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Good grief Nicol, that's awful! I really don't know how you or anyone else suffering flooding, copes. It's happening too often now isn't it? I wonder why?I know I wouldn't be able to handle it. I'm not even insured for flooding
01-06-2018, 09:12 PM
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Re: I live on a hill...
It was pretty crap, really stressful, not helped by cowboy builders and the whole industry that grew up around flood victims.
The reasons for the flooding were mostly down to the council not clearing out the drains and culverts and not emptying the "ponds". Plus the fire brigade pumped out the water pumping station at the top of the hill and chucked all the water down the road.
It had been raining for weeks before hand and the ground was saturated to the point of not being able to absorb any more water, then 3 months rain in 1 day put the tin lid on it.
01-06-2018, 09:13 PM
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Re: I live on a hill...
Originally Posted by Pesta
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Good grief Nicol, that's awful! I really don't know how you or anyone else suffering flooding, copes. It's happening too often now isn't it? I wonder why?I know I wouldn't be able to handle it. I'm not even insured for flooding
01-06-2018, 09:18 PM
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Re: I live on a hill...
Originally Posted by Nicol
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A lot of it is down to too much building leaving nowhere for surface water to go.
It's so sad how folk lose their possessions, especially irreplaceable ones.
01-06-2018, 09:20 PM
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Re: I live on a hill...
Originally Posted by Nicol
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Yes, still live with that in my head all the time It was pretty crap, really stressful, not helped by cowboy builders and the whole industry that grew up around flood victims.
The reasons for the flooding were mostly down to the council not clearing out the drains and culverts and not emptying the "ponds". Plus the fire brigade pumped out the water pumping station at the top of the hill and chucked all the water down the road.
It had been raining for weeks before hand and the ground was saturated to the point of not being able to absorb any more water, then 3 months rain in 1 day put the tin lid on it.
I really do feel for you
Have the council pilled their finger out and sorted things since so it doesn't happen again?
01-06-2018, 09:27 PM
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Re: I live on a hill...
Originally Posted by Pesta
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Is that what it is? I do remember reading too about the fashion for concreting drives adding to the problem of flood water.It's so sad how folk lose their possessions, especially irreplaceable ones.
Originally Posted by Missy
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I really do feel for youHave the council pilled their finger out and sorted things since so it doesn't happen again?
I live at the bottom of the hill
It all ends up here.
02-06-2018, 02:22 AM
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HiShrewsbury on Saturday.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/...s-town-centre/
We had loads of thunder but only 10 minutes or so of the downpour, less than a mile away the crops were flattened and the roads shut.
Our drainage systems are very old and no matter how often they are cleaned out, they are just not big enough to cope.
Decades of under investment since the Water Companies where privatised and Council's powers to link new development to bigger drainage systems severely curtailed.
02-06-2018, 08:27 AM
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We had torrential rain yesterday, but we live at a the top of a rise, so weren't worried about it. I am so glad we don't live in our previous property, which was in a valley and yards from a small river. It had never been known to flood the property but came too close for comfort in 2000.
02-06-2018, 09:09 AM
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Re: I live on a hill...
Originally Posted by Nicol
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Yes, still live with that in my head all the time It was pretty crap, really stressful, not helped by cowboy builders and the whole industry that grew up around flood victims.
The reasons for the flooding were mostly down to the council not clearing out the drains and culverts and not emptying the "ponds". Plus the fire brigade pumped out the water pumping station at the top of the hill and chucked all the water down the road.
It had been raining for weeks before hand and the ground was saturated to the point of not being able to absorb any more water, then 3 months rain in 1 day put the tin lid on it.
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