UK people!

[oggbashan]

After the 2000 floods, our local council worked with the Environment Agency and others to produce a flood risk assessment. It was comprehensive, long and had input from Parish Councils, landowners, local history societies etc.

By 2007 I had to remind Councillors that it existed and needed to be updated to take account of new building.

I had to remind them again in 2009, 2011, 2013...

But the Council opposed some new housing schemes because of the evidence in that 2000 assessment. The Environment Agency didn't support the Council's objections and as the EA is the "responsible authority", not the Council, the schemes had to be passed, some after an appeal.

Guess which new housing schemes flooded?

But now we have new maps produced by the Environment Agency which show areas at risk of flooding that have to have flood mitigation measures applied before any development.

And those new maps show the now-built housing schemes - too late.

 

[trysail]

UK Flood Prevention


(found on "Bishop Hill" website)

"Bishop Hill" is the pen name of Andrew W. Montford, author of the justly celebrated The Hockey Stick Illusion.







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[oggbashan]

UK Flood Prevention


(found on "Bishop Hill" website)

"Bishop Hill" is the pen name of Andrew W. Montford, author of the justly celebrated The Hockey Stick Illusion.


​

Some of that information is wrong or out of date. For example: Recent regulations do not allow non-porous paving for car standings or patios. I have off-road parking for two cars built to the new standards. Unless the rain is so heavy that it is running off my aerated grass and flower beds as well, all the water soaks through the car standing surfaces.

However, in UK urban areas the amount of existing non-porous hard standing created before the new rules is NOT negligible. It amounts to thousands of acres of land.

The recent flooding in Northern England and Scotland has been caused by unusually high rainfall in a short space of time. In some parts of Scotland the average rainfall for the month of January had been exceeded by the 5th of the month.

The projections for flooding didn't allow for so much rain so quickly. Some of my friends in Lancashire have had more rain in three weeks than I get in a whole year.

 

[Wrong Element]

Tess, anyone who doubts Donald Trump's intelligence is making a big mistake. He may be an arrogant, opinionated asshole, but he's far from stupid. He's actually highly intelligent, and very shrewd. Don't doubt me on this.

And yet, he believes Obama wasn't born in the United States.

There may be "highly intelligent" people who have that belief, in the same way that there may be cocker spaniels who can carry on conversations about the Civil War. I've just never come across an example of either one.

 

[trysail]

Some of that information is wrong or out of date. For example: Recent regulations do not allow non-porous paving for car standings or patios. I have off-road parking for two cars built to the new standards. Unless the rain is so heavy that it is running off my aerated grass and flower beds as well, all the water soaks through the car standing surfaces.

However, in UK urban areas the amount of existing non-porous hard standing created before the new rules is NOT negligible. It amounts to thousands of acres of land.

The recent flooding in Northern England and Scotland has been caused by unusually high rainfall in a short space of time. In some parts of Scotland the average rainfall for the month of January had been exceeded by the 5th of the month.

The projections for flooding didn't allow for so much rain so quickly. Some of my friends in Lancashire have had more rain in three weeks than I get in a whole year.

Flood Prevention Society website



http://www.floodpreventionsociety.org.uk/



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[toubab]

And yet, he believes Obama wasn't born in the United States.

There may be "highly intelligent" people who have that belief, in the same way that there may be cocker spaniels who can carry on conversations about the Civil War. I've just never come across an example of either one.

As I recall Trump has said he doesn't know where Obama was born.

 

[oggbashan]

Flood Prevention Society website



http://www.floodpreventionsociety.org.uk/



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Yes. It is a campaign group that advocates more spending on Flood Prevention but is not unbiased. No amount of spending would satisfy them.

The reality is that no one can prevent ALL flooding. There are some things that can be done, and some that cannot.

IF the government would back local authorities who are trying to stop new building on flood plains that would be a start, but too many houses are already there. Locals won't buy them because they know the risk.

WTF, for example, were houses allowed to be built on places named "Noah's Ark" (the existing farmhouse was on an artificial mound that became an island in some years); Stillwaters; Watery Lane...?

 

[putzpotus]

by all means

let THESE in

keep TRUMP out


ISIS Urges UK Jihadis To Pretend To Be Christians By Cutting Their Beards, Shun Mosques & Wear Crosses…

ISIS-632806

Extreme interfaith outreach?

Via Express:

WOULD-BE jihadis eager to carry out a Paris-style attack in the UK have been handed a chilling step-by-step guide by Islamic State (ISIS) thugs.

The booklet, called Safety and Security Guidelines for Lone Wolf Mujahideen, offers a chilling insight into the levels of preparation expected of those wishing to cause carnage in Europe.

The 58-page terror manual, which has burning western-style buildings on the front cover, gushes about the importance of surprise when launching an attack to cause maximum impact