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Will More Extreme Weather Conditions Influence Where You Choose to Live?
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It all depends on what part of Cumbria. Bear in mind that the main flooding locations are where there are large rivers fed off the high fells, some of which have received over a foot of rain in 24 hours landing on already well sodden ground.
There are plenty of parts which are not at risk of that sort of inundation. Where I'm buying, in the South Lakes, is fine - albeit a tad tricky to get to/from at present due to all the main roads being flooded in places.
The same perception happened a few years ago in relation to Somerset. Seeing the Levels under water led some people to believe that the majority of Somerset was flat! :rotfl:
There has been a serious effect for those who bought in some villages, however. Their houses are not worth as much as they were, and it was always a cheaper area.
The Levels was a place where we might naturally have moved to in 2009, but our perception was that a government strapped for cash might not maintain sea and flood defences so we stayed well clear.0 -
Better add a large area of the Thames region to that too!
Haha.....yes, perhaps a little rowing boat moored nearby would be very useful! A cunning plan, Baldrick? Whatever it was, it's got to be better than pretending to be mad; after all, who'd notice another mad person around here?.......Edmund Blackadder.0 -
The same perception happened a few years ago in relation to Somerset. Seeing the Levels under water led some people to believe that the majority of Somerset was flat! :rotfl:
There has been a serious effect for those who bought in some villages, however. Their houses are not worth as much as they were, and it was always a cheaper area.
The Levels was a place where we might naturally have moved to in 2009, but our perception was that a government strapped for cash might not maintain sea and flood defences so we stayed well clear.
Ah yes, Dave, that reminded me; we stayed with the caravan on a lovely farm near Wells and they had floods which came right up to their land ( not actually on it, thankfully!)
A cunning plan, Baldrick? Whatever it was, it's got to be better than pretending to be mad; after all, who'd notice another mad person around here?.......Edmund Blackadder.0 -
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance" - Confucius0
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Staying put - driest county in England......0
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Missus_Hyde wrote: »Haha.....yes, perhaps a little rowing boat moored nearby would be very useful!
You'd do well to manage that in Kensington!
Yes flooding etc would influence my decisions,mainly because i've seen first hand countless people that have been affected by it. Emotionally,financially and even mentally.
When we turn up to provide a flood alleviation scheme you've never seen people so happy.
Interestingly, quite often the construction work to provide this is actually not where the people flooding live, it can be roads away.I have been gobsmacked by the attitude of some people.
"But i don't flood"
"Yes but your neighbour down the road does"
"That's not my problem,how long you going to be here inconveniencing me?"
"9 months in all"
An hour later my phone will ring and it'll be the customer complaint team...
I always reserve a special place in my heart for these people and hope their "I'm alright Jack" attitude comes back to bite them in later years...0 -
Interestingly, quite often the construction work to provide this is actually not where the people flooding live, it can be roads away.I have been gobsmacked by the attitude of some people.
"But i don't flood"
"Yes but your neighbour down the road does"
"That's not my problem,how long you going to be here inconveniencing me?"
"9 months in all"
An hour later my phone will ring and it'll be the customer complaint team...
I always reserve a special place in my heart for these people and hope their "I'm alright Jack" attitude comes back to bite them in later years...
I don't think that fluid dynamics is one of the more common skills 0 -
I don't think that fluid dynamics is one of the more common skills
Agreed. But even after extensive and extremely polite PR and explanation the attitude doesn't change.
I've long concluded that some people are just plain selfish/ignorant.Or both.And you can increase that tenfold in central London.0 -
I think if a 7m rise happened, we'd all be long gone anyway!
Just a few cm is all it takes when the right conditions come together.
I was in Dawlish Station on a night there was a huge storm surge in November 2004. The tracks were inundated and trains were trapped under nearby cliffs. It was obvious then that what happened 10 years later could happen at any time.0
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