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Blue sky and hail
"Martin" wrote in message
news On Wed, 8 Jan 2014 00:43:08 +0000, sacha wrote: On 2014-01-07 18:28:15 +0000, David Hill said: On 07/01/2014 12:22, Sacha wrote: On 2014-01-07 11:33:51 +0000, Martin said: On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 10:59:58 +0000, Sacha wrote: This weather is *weird*! We've just had a big downpour of hail, there's a large patch of blue sky, some cloud and a large patch of black sky. Early this morning there was a thunderstorm and a power cut. I am so sorry for those poor people who are flooded and can see no end to all this. Even worse are the people who are flooded every year and politicians doing nothing about it except talking. I think they have to hand over money and autonomy to local authorities who will dredge, dig culverts or do whatever has to be done but with local knowledge. I don't think this sort of disaster aversion can be controlled from Whitehall. I don't actually know how it's managed now, other than by a lot of jaw action, as you say. But 'give us the tools and we'll do the job' does seem to be the only sensible management. But above all, it should be made illegal to build on, or close to, flood plains. Driving to Bridgwater last week we saw acres upon acre of lakes that should have been fields and we heard this morning that the train line is flooded again near Taunton, I think. So no trains into the further reaches of the peninsula! I cannot begin to imagine what it would be like to be on a train near Dawlish now anyway, if the trains from this side are running! I can't see giving the "Locals" the money to carry out flood prevention would be of any great advantage. It's these people who have given planning permission in the first place to build on flood plains. I remember seeing a house on one of the Property progs that was build by the river but on a raft of something like 4ft of polystyrene so when the ground flooded the house floated, held in place by strong posts at the corners. This is another idea along these lines. http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...-welsh-2731149 That house build stirs a memory with me. I was suggesting handing money to the locals in the hope that allhad now learned that building on flood plains and concreting over the land, is not an entirely desirable solution. I don't pretend to have a solution and I don't think there's an easy one. But I don't think some MP/Minister from Yorkshire can truly know the problems around e.g. Taunton or Salcombe, Lynmouth, Boscastle or Looe. Yorkshire also has flooding and cliff erosion problems. It seems that such problems get far more publicity from the media, when they happen in the south of England. In December the sea went over the sea defences in Scarborough flooding all the buildings on the seafront including the lifeboat building. The small RNLI lifeboat had to be rescued to stop it being washed out to sea. The large lifeboat parked on a trailer was unusable. Fishermen had to jump into their boats to stop them being wrecked on the breakwater, which was covered by the tidal surge. I've only seen this mentioned in a local newspaper. -- Martin in Zuid Holland ================================================== ========== 110% correct, but even the South looks to the South. Little story for you to show just how correct you are. The Isle of Wight is in the main a Tourist Area, so of course we have a Tourist Board. And this Tourist Board advertises the Isle of Wight as a place to visit. Where did they do a big campaign? Dorset and Hampshire. I kid you not. Industrial Midlands? Scotland? Home Counties? Wales? North East? 'There's nothing North of The Watford Gap' Mike --------------------------------------------------------------- www.friendsofshanklintheatre.co.uk www.hmscollingwoodassociation.com www.rneba.org.uk www.nsrafa.org |
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