Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

Doozergirl

purch wrote: »

Sam Notaro.

I hope he didn't get his own firm of "cowboys" to build his house :eek:

The rest of that story, if you please!

PasturesNew

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Mine couldn't have put any type of shelf up if he tried ...

"Couldn't" isn't something that stops a bodger

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

When you drive down the M5 across Somerset the rivers you're crossing over have signs you can read. The River Parrot (one of those flooding) has always amused me. Along the M5 these rivers are just 6' wide, more like fat streams.

Levels, as a word, is used a lot in flat areas. It's all about when the land was drained and the water pumped into channels. There are the Bedford Levels in East Anglia, just north of Ely.

These are all over the Fens: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens

As a "side find", read this, it's fascinating - used to help prove the world isn't flat - Bedford Level: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Level_experiment

Now that's what confuses me about this country. Why aren't the Bedford levels in Bedford? Why isn't Leeds Castle in Yorkshire? Blooming use of place names twice.

Still, that's nowt so weird as leaving Hertfordshire and living near St Albans, then moving to Vic, Aus and still living near St Albans.

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Did I miss a "do not quote, will delete"?
PM appreciated if anybody's got the time.

PM sent on this topic so don't delete it without reading like you do with the rest of my messages.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

PM sent on this topic .

Read it - and signed to say it's OK for the police monitoring records

purch

Doozergirl wrote: »

The rest of that story, if you please!

Hearsay and gossip not worthy of a NP

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

There was a farmer on countryfile last night, his family had farmed there for 150 years. I think he said that 95% of his land is under water. He's got mostly cows now .... after the programme they said he'd had to get the cows out/abandon the farm.

For 150 years it was all OK, but now it seems it's every year for the last few years only. So there's been a lot of farming going on for a long time there.... and the cost of a farm > the cost of a house.

So, for him, it wouldn't be about giving up his house, but a whole farm, 150 years of family history and memories. Loss of income, loss of a business, couldn't start again, I wonder what the cost to buy his business would have been on the open market.

Pre this? A lot more that 150k. The propertes ex and I were looking a were more than that years ago. But....

The nature of value is that things go up and down. Life's a !!!!. Sadly. . Its not that I without sympathy. I literally cry for here people. I feel the same about dh's Jewish family and the war, but feel those on Germany should do national service now and go on as equals.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I literally cry for here people.

For a lot of those people it's their first flood.

It'd be tough for anybody, let's look at you - imagine if you had a knock at the door at 3am after you'd sandbagged your door the other night .... and it was the police telling you to evacuate - and you had to get the horses out, dogs out, cats out, sort the chickens, pack your belongings, put as much as you could upstairs ... all in the dark, with the sound of rain beating against the windows .... and then leave... knowing that now all your hard work of the last 2-3 years was 2' under water filled with poo and animal poo from flooded cesspits and sewage works.

Awful for anybody with more than a standard house to live with.

Many people newly flooded must have bought in the last 2 years I'd guess. I looked on RM last night - house for sale in Moorland anybody?
rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40056622.html (link removed to prevent server stats leading to here)

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

For a lot of those people it's their first flood.

It'd be tough for anybody, let's look at you - imagine if you had a knock at the door at 3am after you'd sandbagged your door the other night .... and it was the police telling you to evacuate - and you had to get the horses out, dogs out, cats out, sort the chickens, pack your belongings, put as much as you could upstairs ... all in the dark, with the sound of rain beating against the windows .... and then leave... knowing that now all your hard work of the last 2-3 years was 2' under water filled with poo and animal poo from flooded cesspits and sewage works.

Awful for anybody with more than a standard house to live with.

Many people newly flooded must have bought in the last 2 years I'd guess. I looked on RM last night - house for sale in Moorland anybody?
rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-40056622.html (link removed to prevent server stats leading to here)

The levels have ALWAYS been a risk. Not just now, but over centuries. They are just above and in some areas below sea level.

I agree with purchase, the more dramatic story here is the infrstrusture with roads ...rail lines. And I was saying a few weeks ago I'd ver heard of flooding closing a303 before this year when it closed at the junction with a36 I think.

I have thought of it as if it were me, I've cried thinking about it. I lived in a flood zone as a student and the apartment below ours did flood , we helped them bail out (we were fine thank god).

I am NOT under rating the human aspect. I'm saying that without belittling the impact of that one has to realise that there is little the various politicians can do in the now.

Incidentally, the new build underway in town near (which I think are a great thing but wrongly places) have flooded during build. I stopped while out to chat and they said they have huge drainage systems and it ones 'into the water course...) I asked where that goes, and they didn't know,.,....my guess is next flood zone down the line.

purch

How did you guess my name :eek: