Widespread flooding throughout England

[louise000]

If you are reading this and you have been affected by the widespread flooding across much of England, please accept my sympathies. The worst of the rain seems to have missed us here in the far south, but those elsewhere that have been flooded out are in my thoughts.
With many major rivers having burst their banks many counties are experiencing the worst floods since records began in this country. Many people have been forced to leave their homes and have lost their possessions. Damage is likely to amount to many millions of pounds.
Louise

[Jay]

Thank fully I'am not knee deep in water aswell, however if I was then most people should get a little worried as I live on top of a hill. Thank fully in Norfolk where I live hasn't been flooded for nearly 10 years!

My sympathy goes out to everyone who is knee deep in water!

[LostInTime]

Well wishes to all. We went through something similar a number of years ago and they had to go and update all of their 100 year flood plains plans. Now it is very, very dry.

[RebeccaFog]

I hope everything works out.

[Aeyra]

I didn't think England could flood like that. 

[louise000]

I didn't think England could flood like that. 

Yes, it took many people by surprise. There was a whole months rain in one 24 hours on none occasion, but it's been a  month of wet weather here - not at all like summer. Thankfully river levels are falling right now, but it's going to take alot to clean up the mess and count the cost. Some "experts" are saying it's down to global warming and climate change - whatever.
Louise

[jonjon]

Thank fully I'am not knee deep in water aswell, however if I was then most people should get a little worried as I live on top of a hill. Thank fully in Norfolk where I live hasn't been flooded for nearly 10 years!

My sympathy goes out to everyone who is knee deep in water!

Me too dude! *kisses hill*

Yeah, but it's all my fault :-/ i wished for summer to go away and now it has and we are blessed with way too much rain... and it's all my fault. I bid you all good luck in hitting me ^.^

[louise000]

Thank fully I'am not knee deep in water aswell, however if I was then most people should get a little worried as I live on top of a hill. Thank fully in Norfolk where I live hasn't been flooded for nearly 10 years!

My sympathy goes out to everyone who is knee deep in water!

Hi Jaston, I've just re-read your post - you say you live on top of a hill - in Norfolk?!! When I visited Norfolk with the school many years ago we didn't see a hill for days, except in Norwich! Everywhere seemed flat.
Hope you continue to be free of floods.
Best wishes, Louise

[LostInTime]

catastrophic floods from a long time ago

[louise000]

catastrophic floods from a long time ago

What a fascinating link. Perhaps it's just an ongoing process. Only last year the environmental doom and gloom merchants were telling us the planet was warming up and we should expect much hotter. much drier summers from now on. We should replant our gardens with plants which would withstand drought conditions. What a lot of tosh that turned out to be.....weather comes in cycles and has done so since time immemorial. Now they're on about carbon footprints........I ask you!
Louise

[Pica Pica]

In york there is a pub by the river that marks where floods have reached for the past hundred years (maybe more). It is known as 'that pub that floods' and if it is only a little flood (like ankles) it carries on trading.

I am in Coventry, and we have got wet, but no floods.

[Rachael]

im in sheffield, the low parts got soggy, but i didnt (win)

The doom and gloom merchants are scaremongers, as a geography student with a personal interest in global climate. trust me, this is not out of the ordinery for the planet. its simly exisiting, we just choose to build more houses in flood plains and tempt fate...

[RebeccaFog]

In the 1970's (afore half of ye was borned) they told us that there'd be an ice age in 20 years.



Well,



I'm waitinggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.     <--- shhh. don't tell him.  He reminds me of one of the muppets.

[Rachael]

thats because in the 70s there was a global cooling event, dispite the carbon levels being at peak output. it was partly due to volcanic activity and the earths natural fluctuation...