Boxing day floods, show us your pictures....:-(

Crouchinho said:
Holy shite that's a lot of flooding. I remember my hometown being flooded a few years back but not like this. Anyway this can be prevented in the future? I'm thinking that would cost millions and millions to improve the sewage system and redirection and it still wouldn't be enough
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There has been a reasonable amount of money spent on flood prevention in the Upper Calder Valley, but it never seems to do any good. Implementation and execution have come under a lot of scrutiny.The kind of infrastructure necessary to handle a month's worth of rain falling in a day onto saturated hills above a narrow valley would unfortunately prove far too expensive for a string of small towns in the North of England. Obviously if this were the Chilterns we were talking about then it would be a different matter. Remember a few years ago when Sheffield and Hull got absolutely inundated and all that was on the national news was bloody Tewkesbury?
 
Can't believe the footage on the news this morning, unreal

Hope anyone on here who is effected gets the support they need
 
As GMC Fire service has its budget slashed by £17 million these things highlight why you need a decent rescue service, even though we have no statutory obligation to do floods. i.e we are not funded to do this, we still carry on doing it, in 18 months time we will have 400 less firefighters it doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out if this happens again we won't be able to cover its. The lads are out there now in just normal kit as well, but call me Dave will be happy because Oxfordshire is safe.
 
My other half works on the ambulances and while I was at the game had to go wading through floodwaters to help people yesterday (in bloody Salford too). All without special training or kit, just an ambulance crew and 1 bobby to get people out and help someone who fell in the water and was still there.

She said I was absolutely mad, no help as everyone was so under resourced (all the services) that the best help eventually was the mountain rescue teams.

Hope everyone affected is ok and all the teams helping stay safe as I've seen nothing like this in my 45 years.
 
Going to the match yesterday, which I thought I'd make by HT, I ventured down Smithy Bridge in Littleborough. Those familiar will know that UU spent years, yes years, building summat in a field by the side of the River Roch, and the road was awash adjacent to their previous building site. However, on my return, the water, a foot deep and 30 yards long across both carriageways, had receded!

Note to the BBC: It is pronounced Roach, not Rotch! Get it right!
 
FSD said:
My other half works on the ambulances and while I was at the game had to go wading through floodwaters to help people yesterday (in bloody Salford too). All without special training or kit, just an ambulance crew and 1 bobby to get people out and help someone who fell in the water and was still there.

She said I was absolutely mad, no help as everyone was so under resourced (all the services) that the best help eventually was the mountain rescue teams.

Hope everyone affected is ok and all the teams helping stay safe as I've seen nothing like this in my 45 years.
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And the mountain rescue are all volunteers and do a great job, just hope it all calms down now and people can get back to their homes.
 
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