On 07/07/2012 01:53 PM, David Hill wrote:
On 07/07/2012 12:37, Martin wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 12:11:09 +0100, "shazzbat"
wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2012 22:17:37 +0100, "Ophelia"
wrote:

Hubby wrote this for a group on a different forum system and I
thought it
might be useful he

Floods
big snip

Very good.

The Ouse floods every year, even in the 1940s when I was kid.
Most of the area that flooded then had no housing on it. Today it has.
--

Isn't it about time a hovercraft or two was used in floods? There are
many
in the country, military, sport and commercial, yet when there's
flooding,
not one to be seen.

A good suggestion.



Well I'd have thought that a lot of the timber decking should just rest
on supports and have flotation of some sort built under it so that it
could serve as a raft if needed in floods.
I remember seeing; on one of the house building programmes; a house
close to the river being built in a large raft of polystyrene and with
posts at each corner so it could rise up with the rising water.
David @ the wet end of Swansea bay where it's trying to rain yet again.


Don't they build houses on concrete pontoons in the Netherlands? I
remember reading an article about it some years ago, the whole thing is
anchored by chain to the ground so it will ride above but not float away.