Eric Pickles.

[robin]

My house is 100m above sea level.

About 300m away and 20m down is a river (it is about 80m above sea level).

The sea is about 3km away.

How much rain do we need to make my house flood?

Cheers,
Robin

[campbell]

Potentially not much given the topology of your basement area.

A few blocked drains and you could be on the bucket chain like half the southeast I imagine...

[Gareth]

The weather down South is terrible and it's all Alex Salmonds fault.
He and God got together. If he can't get Independance by diplomatic means....he's gonna drown the southern feckers out Noah and the Ark Stylie!

[robin]

Potentially not much given the topology of your basement area.

The main street drain is large enough to walk in and below the level of my basement

[campbell]

Independance

Independence.

Just want to be clear

[Noops]

Stop building houses on flood plains for a start.

They were talking to one resident that had recently bought his house, knowing that it was flooded last year. What sort of sense does that make?

tut

I have to disagree Tut ! Why not build on a flood plain , just when you apply to build you specify that regs allow to build on stilts ie higher than the water flow.................. I work in a garden next to a mill house its been there for over 300 years the garden floods 2/3 times a year yet the house is still dry, I don't wonder why that is

[sendmyusername]

Independance

Independence.

Just want to be clear

Maybe he was just combining the words independence and dance to throw some levity on the situation ?
It's not just the floodplanes that are the problem now.
Up river, they have concreted the lamdscapes and old floodplanes, and in some cases put in proper defences, however, this means that the water that would normally collect here now goes stright to the river and downstream. The more towns it passes through the more amplified it gets. The end result is areas that have never had any flooding problems in their history are now in the firing line.
They also have no hope of pinning the blame on a town/city fifeteen miles upriver.
There has been no national strategy when it comes to river/flooding and that is going to continually bit them in the ass.

[Fluoxetine]

The weather down South is terrible and it's all Alex Salmonds fault.
He and God got together. If he can't get Independance by diplomatic means....he's gonna drown the southern feckers out Noah and the Ark Stylie!

[campbell]

Love it

[Lazydonkey]

Just to update this thread as i spent 30 mins talking to the guy as he's back in the office now.

He has 100% damp in the walls for the first 1.2 meters.....although it's not longer pooling in his living room he still has pools of water under his floor....most of the water is mixed with sewerage so he's actually been off for the past few weeks due to an infection he caught when he was trying rip floors and carpets up. He was advised not to go in until it was sanitised but he can't get a company to do that for months. Can't get dehumidifiers in yet as the water is still receding.

Best case is he'll be back in his house in Oct and the bill looks like it's going to be north of £35k for the repairs. He lining up to fight the insurance company and claim it's one incident but so far they are playing hard ball. All the good trades have been swallowed up by the insurance repair work meaning he either has to pick a company he doesn't know and cross his fingers or wait to get his work done. He gets cold called every day by people promising to fix his issues for an upfront fee etc etc. The guy is broken.

You see it on the news and you feel detached, someone shows you a video of their house on their mobile with tears in his eyes and it's a totally different experience. The only saving grace is that my bosses have been really supportive and we are trying our best to give him all the time he needs so that he doesn't have to worry about his job on top of everything else.

really sobering stuff.

[Shug]

Oof. You have to feel for the guy - really horrible.

[j2 lot]