Originally by: Carbis

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Edited by: Carbis on 20/07/2007 16:22:51
Not to sound sarcy but the American Midwest is suffering from some horrendous flooding... much more disastrous than just some canceled trains and closed roads.

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Originally by: Miss Anthropy

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Originally by: Azirapheal

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the funny thing is... they still build ******* houses on ******* floodplains

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Gordon Brown was questioned about it today (actually yesterday now, Sunday) on whether he still planned to build houses on flood plains and he said yes. So clearly no change of government policy. Also, David Cameron said that the Government last year made cut backs in funding for flood defences. That's why, even though the councils had a week's foreknowledge that this would happen, they were unable to cope.

OK, there ain't much the Government can do about the rain; but there's a lot they can do in order to be better prepared for something like this.

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Originally by: Guvnor RBM

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I'm going to the Bulldog bash in a few weeks with most of my Corp, does any one live near

SHAKESPEARE COUNTY RACEWAY,
LONG MARSTON AIRFIELD,
LONG MARSTON,
Nr STRATFORD ON AVON,

They say its all good, but I get the feeling they would say that when there selling ticket :)

The news looks like that area is underwater :(

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Originally by: Cmdr Sy

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For future reference, you can get sandbags from builders' merchants, but it's too late for that now, and the emergency services will quickly have the lot anyway. Best thing to do is to always have some around if you own a house on a floodplain.

Gloucester area infrastructure is going to take weeks to fully repair. The difference between best and worst case scenarios is whether the custom 1970s electronics that runs those places survives or doesn't. Good luck with that.

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