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Rob 210
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Looks like the far east has been lucky compared to you guys.
Just stay safe
Just stay safe
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
aye ..... reckon we took a good 70-80% of what came in off the Atlantic this time .... the wind is a PITA on high ground ... but yer feet stay dry --- ishLooks like the far east has been lucky compared to you guys.
Just stay safe
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fred
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what a weekend.
We have been flooded twice, first in 07 then in November last year. Albeit only a few inches last year just enough to bugger everything.
The way the house sits there is a natural slope to the rear where the water comes up, I've built a wall all round and pump out what comes up through the ground. My 2 electric and 1 honda 2" pump all failed in November (power went and the honda got clogged) so wanted to be better prepared this time.
Bought a JCB 6" trash pump that runs off a beaver pack or mini digger. It will take upto 75mm debris and is centrifugal so no priming. It shifts over a cube a minute. Got a good deal on an electric start diesel beaver pack to power it.
As it happened we were very very lucky and the forecast deluge just missed us, all the heavy s**t was just south of us. Taking the price hit and moving this year as had enough. Getting too old for it.
We have been flooded twice, first in 07 then in November last year. Albeit only a few inches last year just enough to bugger everything.
The way the house sits there is a natural slope to the rear where the water comes up, I've built a wall all round and pump out what comes up through the ground. My 2 electric and 1 honda 2" pump all failed in November (power went and the honda got clogged) so wanted to be better prepared this time.
Bought a JCB 6" trash pump that runs off a beaver pack or mini digger. It will take upto 75mm debris and is centrifugal so no priming. It shifts over a cube a minute. Got a good deal on an electric start diesel beaver pack to power it.
As it happened we were very very lucky and the forecast deluge just missed us, all the heavy s**t was just south of us. Taking the price hit and moving this year as had enough. Getting too old for it.
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
that is some pump Fred ... can't beat being prepared, fairplay to you ....... glad to hear you didn't quite need it.
My heart goes out to all those folks who got inundated ..... absolute 'kin nightmare ....
scrap the multi billion pound debacle that is HS2 and spend it all on dealing with what appears to be / going to be, the norm, going forward ... 30 minute savings on journey times just do not equate to the months of misery this sort of weather is going to bring to hundreds of thousands of people, to say nothing of the ongoing costs it leaves in its wake
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Rob 210
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if money was spent on dredgeing rivers,streams,ditches and other water ways including roadside groups and drains so the bloody water could get away would be a start,Also over here in the far east the conservation groups buy/rent all the available marsh land,dam every water course and flood a everything,so in the case of a heavy rain the natural flood plain is full to bursting anyway,but we do have 9 pairs of bitterns and 6 marsh harriers,so who gives a toss if your house floods,because we have bitterns
just my opinion,but because i haven't got a degree in ecology i know nothing.
BUT I DO HAVE COMMON SENSE,not that it counts for F#*k all these days
just my opinion,but because i haven't got a degree in ecology i know nothing.
BUT I DO HAVE COMMON SENSE,not that it counts for F#*k all these days
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Smiffy
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if money was spent on dredgeing rivers,streams,ditches and other water ways including roadside groups and drains so the bloody water could get away would be a start,Also over here in the far east the conservation groups buy/rent all the available marsh land,dam every water course and flood a everything,so in the case of a heavy rain the natural flood plain is full to bursting anyway,but we do have 9 pairs of bitterns and 6 marsh harriers,so who gives a toss if your house floods,because we have bitterns
just my opinion,but because i haven't got a degree in ecology i know nothing.
BUT I DO HAVE COMMON SENSE,not that it counts for F#*k all these days
What a lot of these ecologists dont realise is that humans have been managing the land for so many years that the ecosystems actually rely on human intervention that and have adapted to it so us suddenly stopping all our management doesn't actually make everything better correct management actually leads to good ecosystems
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Rob 210
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Just look at Holland,are their dykes full of reed,sedge and watercress
JD450A
Feral as Fk 🐾
if money was spent on dredgeing rivers,streams,ditches and other water ways including roadside groups and drains so the bloody water could get away would be a start,Also over here in the far east the conservation groups buy/rent all the available marsh land,dam every water course and flood a everything,so in the case of a heavy rain the natural flood plain is full to bursting anyway,but we do have 9 pairs of bitterns and 6 marsh harriers,so who gives a toss if your house floods,because we have bitterns
just my opinion,but because i haven't got a degree in ecology i know nothing.
BUT I DO HAVE COMMON SENSE,not that it counts for F#*k all these days
You will find conversation management and reserves rarely interfere with the main watercourses. Flood plains are over rated IMHO, get the channels flowing out to sea. As mentioned clear the main channels and get the water gone!
Same with the moorland crap.... I can see the advantages, no wait I can't when it comes to flooding.
GazCro
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Thing that gets me is the cheapest thing is to clear out the watercourses and get the water away out to see. If that alone isn't enough then start pi**ing about trying to store it upstream etc. Doesn't help that a lot of houses are built on flood plains. Then they blame climate change and more rainfall because they didn't listen to the older generation when they said "don't build there it floods". I know that may not be the case everywhere but up in Cumbria there's a lot of places flooded in the last 15 years which used to flood regular up until about the 60s but that seems to have been forgotten.
pettsy
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A site in Matlock near me being cleared for houses that supposedly “only flooded twice in 75 years” at the planning meeting. This is second time in last 6 months!
GazCro
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You're not putting you're name down for one then
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
Planning should be revoked or ground raised by at least 2m +
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Rob 210
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so this area is known to have flooded twice in 75 years so by my calcs thats every 32.5 years it has flooded which equates to a 32% of flooding in 100 years.
The odds are too high for me to live there
The odds are too high for me to live there
Bucket on wheels
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I've given up on the Poxy Weather I keep myself warm and cozy right here 
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Rob 210
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Thats one brave cat
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Monkeybusiness
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I can’t believe you eat cats - don’t let Druid see that!I've given up on the Poxy Weather I keep myself warm and cozy right here
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Rob 210
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Cat on the Bbq!strange looking implements on the wall.Is witchcraft amongst us here
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
so that's why the cats gave Frank a wide berth, when he was here
"FFS don't let him eat me dad"
got some vid.s some where of Frank playing with the Drema and VA-r (tilty)
V8Druid
do it as well as you can,but learn to do it better
TBF to Frank ... he'd never sat in her before, never op.ed it, or me VA-r and had been years since he'd run a button/pedal set up .. plus it wasn't his usual long toe-ed grader ............... and was about -2C so he felt right at home specially when it snowed the next day
Dunno as he's ever seen these
............... and was about -2C so he felt right at home specially when it snowed the next day Dunno as he's ever seen these
TiltyShaun
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One close to me
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