The Lake District Is One Big Lake

bluethrunthru said:
saw I think it was Corbridge on the news earlier and the "new" flood defences were breached. It seems after the last flooding they put time effort and money in building a big concrete wall - looked about 4ft high - and as dark fell this was just being overtopped. Nice for the residents - going tits up just after lights out. Now this is the first time these have been tested since the last flooding they had there it said so my question is.... which dickhead did the calculations and built a wall too fucking small !!??? Another 6 inches and they would be sound. Absolute fucking joke this country and how it prepares for an deals with anything outside the norm when it comes to weather. We bleat on about climate change all the time and can't seem to do anything to prepare ourselves for it FFS !!!
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The problem as I see it is that for years we have been building flood defences "up river" so people can have nice fancy houses with a riverside view, this means that previous flood plains are no longer there so more flows down to overwhelm what used to be sufficient defences
 
Stuuuuuu said:
The town centre is flooded, I heard yesterday.
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My mate was in Cockermouth for weeks about 3 years ago dealing with insurance claims coz of flooding. Since then hishe said employers have made the 3 colleagues who were there with him redundant- a sort of "peace dividend" because the weather has been so quiet since it was felt they weren't needed !! How can they do that? Surely it stands to reason that the weather will turn and they will need people to respond to their (paying) customers needs?
 
I live in Kendal, since around lunchtime yesterday the town has been effectively cut off. All yesterday evening I could see the flood water creeping closer to our house, then the power went off at about 8pm, when it came back on around 10pm the water was at the edge of our garden so me and the Mrs grabbed a few things, got in the car and parked up on a hill overlooking our house. We had the local radio on, the guy on there said the rain would ease off at about 1am, which it did. I decided to go and have a look to see what damage there was. The garden was flooded but luckily nothing had got into the house. I reckon if it had rained for another half hour then our house would have been flooded. A very lucky escape for us, but nearly all the houses round us weren't so fortunate.
 
bluethrunthru said:
My mate was in Cockermouth for weeks about 3 years ago dealing with insurance claims coz of flooding. Since then hishe said employers have made the 3 colleagues who were there with him redundant- a sort of "peace dividend" because the weather has been so quiet since it was felt they weren't needed !! How can they do that? Surely it stands to reason that the weather will turn and they will need people to respond to their (paying) customers needs?
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Loss Assessors? Earning a living at City now perhaps.
 
Has any of the clergy turned up yet to blame homosexuals?
 
1961_vintage said:
Loss Assessors? Earning a living at City now perhaps.
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Had a pint with him earlier - my mistake - loss ADJUSTERS - not assessors,. They are it seems two different things - assessors are the ones that represent the claimant and then take a %age of their award.

No not at all - most have left the insurance world and are doing something else. Not sure where you get the idea of them working in the City from these people live - and lived - all over the country covering local areas. Hardly likely to migrate to the City even if they could.

He was saying that insurance companies have sacked loads of people to improve balance sheets because income from investments is down. It seems there will be a shortage of people in the offices where people will ring tomorrow to report their claim and then a shortage of these local guys to come out, inspect the damage and arrange the repairs. He doubts there will be enough people still employed by the companies that do the drying out too. Having seen some of the poor fuckers on the news tonight I pity them - Christmas is unlikely to be in their own homes.
 
Nothing on the news about all the firefighters having to be drafted in from around the country to help out, yet they are cutting us to the bone, fast forward two years there will be no back up to help, government needs to have a serious look at what they are doing.
 
Blue Maverick said:
Nothing on the news about all the firefighters having to be drafted in from around the country to help out, yet they are cutting us to the bone, fast forward two years there will be no back up to help, government needs to have a serious look at what they are doing.
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Sort of thing Dave kicks into the long grass mate - why should he give a fuck in 2 years there may not be flooding and he probably won't be PM - it will be for Osborne to deal with. Its all about saving money - you will probably be saved if they can get enough people to pay for a private Fire and Rescue Service - you'll be working for G4S with only four of you to a pump but a spread sheet will show you remain cost effective.........
 
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