Nismo
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How come now its hit the Thames the military are called in straight away and its classed as a disaster, been in somerset for 5 weeks before the military arrived 
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Tomnova16
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It's because we are very important 
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Robin
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Nobody cares about cider and cheese.
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Gary
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Bored of hearing about it. All these people with fix their houses and then complain again in a few years when it floods again. No sympathy.
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Nic Barnes
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Will insurance prices go up for us normal people because of these morons that live on flood plains, where it has flooded?
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John
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Undoubtedly.
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Tomnova16
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That's what I thought. If you live on a flood plain then you will probably get flooded
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John
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Might as well blame everyone else and take no responsibility, as with everything in life.
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RichR
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My best friend lives in an old mill with a canal above him and a river below; it floods every year without fail so he's designed the house to flood-he's raised the sockets, had a stone floor which extends 500mm up the walls and everything is on shelves and plinths. The things he has on the ground floor which are mounted on the floor like sofas etc. are all on tall legs which elevate them anyway but also make it easier to bang a few blocks under each corner to get them higher. He's also got two emergency paddling looks which he can inflate and throw bits into so they float if he ever needs to on top of which he's made a watertight hatch that drops into slots fitted in each of the doors at risk. My point being, he lives on a flood plain but he's designed his house to resist flooding and when it inevitable does flood, it doesn't take any more than a good clean and steam to get it straight again.
It really pisses me off when you see people complaining that they've only just redecorated or had new carpets etc. after they were last flooded-if it's flooded once, why would you not learn from it and develop your house so it wasn't as bad next time round?!?
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Tomnova16
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Exactly that. Build it higher up
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gazza808
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Exactly lee has said tbh,
They don't help themselves,
I went on a trip to Galveston, tx a few days ago, and as you go across the flood plain/marsh land, all the houses are built on stilts one story high, why haven't we learnt yet?
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Ben G
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No one cares about the people who shag their sisters.
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Tiger
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We're still officially coming out of the last ice age, shit's gonna flood eventually and only get much, much worse.
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John
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What exactly is still to thaw that will cause worse flooding in the UK?
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Jambo
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Used to live on a flood plain, in a house that was built on 2ft stilts. Never had a problem, that house was built in the late 1800's!
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Nic Barnes
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Ice occupys more space than water so surely the water level will go down if everything melts.
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Tomnova16
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quote:
Originally posted by Jambo
Used to live on a flood plain, in a house that was built on 2ft stilts. Never had a problem, that house was built in the late 1800's!
exactly
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Jason x
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Snowing here
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Cavey
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Why don't they build a moat?
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Robbo
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Because London.
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Cavey
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In fairness, the news covered it pretty well yesterday, unfortunately it's all done in a business way.
Cost to reward, Population Density, Amount of poor folk. - The flooded areas so far all fail on that compared to the almighty London
[Edited on 11-02-2014 by Cavey]
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Nismo
How come now its hit the Thames the military are called in straight away....
Have they? Articles (Telegraph, BBC, Guardian etc) i've read state the local councils are trying to get the military involved rather than the military has got involved 
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Originally posted by Robbo
Because London.
Sarcastic comment? As the worst affected areas on the Thames are outside London.
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Robbo
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Yes ofc
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sc0ott
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Sunny in edinburgh.
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p
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I do love it when random people get all high and mighty and think they can have a free shot at random MPs! The media love it!
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