stormy (UK extreme weather thread)

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Was on my way home last night just before midnight and it started raining, it hasn’t really stopped all day.

A lot of our roads are flooded, the A420 near to my house has come to a stand still as the roundabout is flooded. The roundabout is fed by 4 busy roads. Well i got through on a moped! Pussy car drivers :laugh_at:

Well having to work out how my gf can get to mine avoiding closed roads and the floods :crazy:

Apparently there is more to come.

Shocking though how our country grinds to a halt because of heavy rain. :you_crazy

[6 General Lighting @general-lighting Moderator Staff]

starlaugh wrote:

Shocking though how our country grinds to a halt because of heavy rain. :you_crazy

is the disruption really that bad?

OK traffic is slower and its harsh for the people who get flooded out and those missing out on Glade after spending that money – but its not like what is happening in many countries where thousands of people lose their homes or drown…

At least we’ve still got our electric and our fixed and mobile telecoms…

20-30 years ago in an emergency situation BT or the Post Office might have just shut down your telephones so the lines would be free for the Emergency Services, and the only situation updates available to citizens would be be via the broadcast radio or (illegally) via monitoring the emergency service radio channels with a scanner…

I do think there have been too many developments built on flood plains though and the Glade site is probably also a low lying land so this was always a risk.. (the owners are one of the richest landowning families in SE England, they are not going to sacrifice decent agricultural land for a bunch of messers to stomp over!)

also I think people whinge more and expect the council/emergency services/utility companies to fix things straight away even when its physically impossible whilst a few years ago they would have dealt with more stuff themselves / as a community…

[1 Playground Politics @playground-politics Member]

700 ppl are without electricity, ppl have lost there cars, its not as bad as the north where ppl died, some ppl have been without water or phone lines, vodaphone is dieing a death, etcetc, i mean ur right its just that engand makes the weather a big thing, so when its really big its huuugggeee, and with glade, its troublesome, im finally mooving and getting on my ass to go at seven, wish me hope

[1 Playground Politics @playground-politics Member]

btw i meant that was in newbury and surrounding areas, soz

[1 imported_rach @imported_rach Member]

yeh our train station has water right up to the platform apparently and the hotel that my friend works at has had a floor cave in to the staff room below… i really feel for the people at glade, hope the weather picks up for them, was a scorcher last year, you can really tell extreme weather is increasing….

[1 MisterDuck @misterduck Member]

it’ll get attention from politicians now it’s happened to the south 😉

[1 globalloon @globalloon Member]

General Lighting wrote:

is the disruption really that bad?

radio reports i listened to said 1000s have been evacuated from their homes, which are flooded

[6 General Lighting @general-lighting Moderator Staff]

globalloon wrote:

radio reports i listened to said 1000s have been evacuated from their homes, which are flooded

does that include the West/SW England? This area does appear to have been hit fairly suddenly earlier today.

Its remarkably dry in the East at the moment, although there are chances of rain tomorrow.

Not too worried about Suffolk as its actually quite a hilly area (particularly Ipswich), and many areas have been shored up against both inland and coastal flooding. The worst that could happen here (and has happened) is localised flooding due to blocked storm drains, although it seemed that on Friday the Councils and Anglian Water were busy trying to unblock as much as they could.

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