Originally Posted by ukbobboy01

Hi Mags

No water threats for me 'coz I live in London and we have the flood barriers, so no problems here apart from the miserable summer.

Mind you, those people that have been flooded out tend to live besides rivers and/or in known floodplains. So there is no real surprise when in some years that "beautiful sparkling river" you bought your house next to becomes a huge torrant of dirty water, mud and debris.

But saying all that, the government has been promising better flood defences for years but still they did nothing, now the floods have damaged thousands of homes. I guess our government better get its act together or there will be a political backlash.


UK Bob