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

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

The winds this afternoon were scary, even though I am warm dry and well above ground. My sister is 50 miles west of here and lost power this afternoon.

108 miles an hour they just said on the news :eek:

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Dunno. I don't know how badly the levels, for example, were impacted by 87.

I was used to hurricanes but was here in 87 and the damage here was sort of worse in a way because the house wasn't designed for it and people don't prep simply. ( I don't mean dopesters dog style, ...oh I do miss him and hope life is treating him well...I just mean simple day of measures)

Brits love a panic.

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So, I feel the pervading force of water, and the impact of changing water patterns ( inc building on flood plains, our usage of water and water courses ) is a fundamental issue.

Water is seriously damaging over time. I mean......look at how its shaped the world . Its more impactful than the occasional hurricane really.


I think how we prep for changing weather plus look at theproblems of infrastructure and really address how we move forward are quite big issues. Sadly, people are squealing pithy political stupidities and squealing about rain. The issues are far wider.

I really believe we ignore water at our peril...too much, too little...its a dangerous thing and godly.

edit : I don't remember the flooding seven years ago at all. Not even the tiniest bit ATM. . Can some one jog my memory please?

Mega rain. People were on the M5 overnight, Tewkesbury became an island and had no clean drinking water.

I was driving round hysterical through flash flood after flash flood in the rural bit with no phone reception, networks jammed, stuck between home and school. DS was driven out from school in the village on a tractor, hours late. None of the parents could get in.

I saw a woman weeping, knee deep in water at the door of the house we're working on now. I Had to abandon the car and hitched a lift in a Land Rover. DS was six, and wide eyed.

No flash flooding here with this, but the river is higher than 2007. New flood defences are helping.

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

Mega rain. People were on the M5 overnight, Tewkesbury became an island and had no clean drinking water.

I was driving round hysterical through flash flood after flash flood in the rural bit with no phone reception, networks jammed, stuck between home and school. DS was driven out from school in the village on a tractor, hours late. None of the parents could get in.

I saw a woman weeping, knee deep in water at the door of the house we're working on now. Had to abandon the car and hitched a lift in a Land Rover.

Well, I can certainly picture Tewkesbury flooded. I've seen smaller places near there made islands years before.


The house you are working on now? For same woman? Is the site flooding again now?

SingleSue

ladeeda wrote: »

My doctors surgery left me a message saying similar late one Friday afternoon. By the time I got the message it was too late to contact them so I spent the entire weekend in major panic mode. Had another smear done the following week which was normal. Hope your panic is resolved as easily.

Oh it was years ago now, it was resolved after a hysterectomy (which followed several colposcopies and laser treatment)

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Before an op there is often a test like a scan confirming what is being dealt with. Some cases bloods will be run concurrent to ops to see if a cause is biochemical for example.....

What lir said!

lostinrates wrote: »

Dunno. I don't know how badly the levels, for example, were impacted by 87.

I was used to hurricanes but was here in 87 and the damage here was sort of worse in a way because the house wasn't designed for it and people don't prep simply. ( I don't mean dopesters dog style, ...oh I do miss him and hope life is treating him well...I just mean simple day of measures)

Brits love a panic.

A
So, I feel the pervading force of water, and the impact of changing water patterns ( inc building on flood plains, our usage of water and water courses ) is a fundamental issue.

Water is seriously damaging over time. I mean......look at how its shaped the world . Its more impactful than the occasional hurricane really.


I think how we prep for changing weather plus look at theproblems of infrastructure and really address how we move forward are quite big issues. Sadly, people are squealing pithy political stupidities and squealing about rain. The issues are far wider.

I really believe we ignore water at our peril...too much, too little...its a dangerous thing and godly.

Reminded me of a very atmospheric sf book I read yonks ago. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Drowned-World-J-G-Ballard/dp/0007221835/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1392246027&sr=1-1&keywords=drowned+world

Looks a bit more prophetic now.

lostinrates

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You'd almost think I was an old hand at this sort of thing, eh.....lol.

Fingers crossed its just that relatively routine condition and mildly expressed and easily controlled. I think it sounds like 'good news' though might be hard to read like that at first.

Doozergirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Well, I can certainly picture Tewkesbury flooded. I've seen smaller places near there made islands years before.


The house you are working on now? For same woman? Is the site flooding again now?

Yes. No. No. I think it's a flash flooder. We're rendering the internal walls, it makes sense. If it were mine, I'd like to build a wall around it and buy a floodgate for that. A line of defence to keep it away from the house.

vivatifosi

One thing I've discovered while looking over the past few days is that there is a dearth of practical advice on how to prepare for a flood on the net... ie quality advice from reliable sources rather than snake oil salesmen.

For example, look up measures on the Env Agy website and there's great advice on how to spend £6k on building in measures, but none of the 'a disaster is coming prep quick' advice of the kind that you get in Aus or the USA. I know when I'm in the US, that I can look in the front of the phone directory for advice.

I know that people with proper flood barriers and devices can protect their house better than someone with a roll of duct tape, plastic sheeting and some old pillowcases; but equally someone with a few rudimental bits and bobs can protect their house better than someone with nothing, particularly as in a lot of cases they are protecting against inches rather than feet of water. Yet this is second nature in Aus and Fl.

Doozergirl

Yes, vica, it does seem an avoidable shame in some circumstances when flood water doesn't nearly reach the top of someone's wellies.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

One thing I've discovered while looking over the past few days is that there is a dearth of practical advice on how to prepare for a flood on the net... ie quality advice from reliable sources rather than snake oil salesmen.

For example, look up measures on the Env Agy website and there's great advice on how to spend £6k on building in measures, but none of the 'a disaster is coming prep quick' advice of the kind that you get in Aus or the USA. I know when I'm in the US, that I can look in the front of the phone directory for advice.

I know that people with proper flood barriers and devices can protect their house better than someone with a roll of duct tape, plastic sheeting and some old pillowcases; but equally someone with a few rudimental bits and bobs can protect their house better than someone with nothing, particularly as in a lot of cases they are protecting against inches rather than feet of water. Yet this is second nature in Aus and Fl.

Yep, I find that things I find 'natural' people here think I'm barking for.