On narrowly avoiding ye yocal floods
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Wow! Glad you got lucky. That's a close one. Prayers for all affected by this disaster. ❤🙏😮
Absolutely, a lot of people have got some tough times ahead, it can take up to two years to be back into a property after flooding.
That photo of the bridge really gives us perspective of the situation. I briefly saw and heard on Serbian news about the floods and they mentioned a place that starts with H but I'm not sure if it was Hereford and a scene of cars "swimming" in the water on the streets, where you can only see a little bit of car's roofs.
In 2014 one part of south Serbia was heavily flooded and I remember also thinking how lucky we, at the north, are. Glad you checked the flood map before buying a house and managed to avoid it. I hope the situation will get better soon.
Hey cheers,
It probably was Hereford on the news!
It's awful for anyone who gets flooded for sure!
Chickens in the bath. Lol. Sounds bout right. Like that down here in Somerset as well atm. We’ve been hammered, rivers have burst their banks, villages are cut off. We talk about the weather all the time but aren’t ever really prepared when it gets rough. Good post.
There was a bloke on the radio today talking about dredging, and how since that's stopped there's more flooding.
I'm sure he's right, but I've also got this dim memory of dredging being terrible for river ecosystems!
Mind you I'm sure the reason the dredging stopped was purely financial.
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This is not looking good...
I had wondered whether you had been affected, Hereford seemed to be on the news alot. One of the other comment mentions flood defences: in Leicester these had been abandoned until a few years ago when whole streets were getting flooded during heavy downpours. It turns out there's an extensive system of drains and reservoirs and flood gates built throughout the city, these are now being cleared of debris and maintained. Aldi (or Lidl, one of them) wanted to build on a field at the end of the City "so people wouldn't have to travel" four miles to their nearest existing store - this is in an area with three major supermarkets within a mile of each other and numerous convenience stores. However, Oadby and Wigston Council to the rescue - as well as part of the flood defences, the field forms part of a green corridor across the south east boundary of Leicester and no-one will be building on it.
Another 60 years sounds right - if you're lucky :)
That's lucky, I guess more concrete would have just meant more run off.
I think we're pretty well sorted for flooding around here, it's just historically unprecedented so even the flood plain areas filled up and overflowed!
Good to hear 😎