Ahoghill Flooded

ltwf1964

wife's uncle lives off the waringstown road in Lurgan,and it's knee deep down the bottom of their street-downstairs is ruined

sleepymy

booklover wrote: »

Hi everyone

the weather is so depressing isn't it?

Sleepy I live in south Belfast too, and lucky enough we haven't been flooded but a few minutes down the road its really bad I believe....

Is it ok with you ?

I just ventured to Forestside today and it was half empty this afternoon....

Here's hoping tomorrow is somewhat better.

Hey booklover, it's fine where we are (we're near the new Tesco). Luckily our estate is on a bit of a slope so we don't have much trouble with flooding here. This weather would depress a donkey, I'm going to try to sit out in the garden for a wee while while the suns out today.

The BBC weather site is giving for a bit of better weather this week so hopefully it'll help dry things out. It's terrible for anyone who's house is flooded.

Sigur_2

So what happened with the underpass? Did they forget to put in a drainage system?

Old_Git

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7566049.stm

picture 5 is stunning

leftieM

Sigur wrote: »

So what happened with the underpass? Did they forget to put in a drainage system?

The water table is unusually high so it probably can't drain off in these conditions.

Sigur_2

leftieM wrote: »

The water table is unusually high so it probably can't drain off in these conditions.

Do other countries road systems share the same fate? It just seems strange that there wouldn't be a drainage system in place that has a greater capacity, especially considering our climate.

Old_Git

Sigur wrote: »

Do other countries road systems share the same fate? It just seems strange that there wouldn't be a drainage system in place that has a greater capacity, especially considering our climate.

too much water at once and the system cant cope .

It seems anyone affected by flooding WILL be getting money from The Executive .

Pretani

Week government departments with no cohesion are to blame. The housing executive, building contractors and roads service seem to get away with whatever they want. Where I live there was a new housing estate built and all their pipe work was connected into the existing drains which were already working at full capacity. The contractor who built the estate should have been made to upgrade the existing drainage system as well. Now the whole road is flooded because of the new houses.

Another thing that makes flooding worse is asphalt. Instead of spending more on brick paving which will alleviate the run-off, the DOE are allowed to lay the worst possible material for water absorption.

ih8stress

I have a relative who lives in Whiteabbey, Belfast. Can anyone tell me if that area has been affected please?

Sigur_2

I'm sure it was. Jerusalem never fairs well.