Happy Christmas everyone.
Sweety if you're off to Cumbria I hope you have a snorkel fitted to ya truck, not looking good up there. Poor people effected by the flooding.
I feel so sorry for the people up there, generations of families often living in the same village for all those years, and never having any floods, then bang, flood after flood.
One flood, I guess as a hundred year event, might increase your home insurance, as would any claim, but several so close together, makes these houses and possibly the region uninsurable from the flooding point of view.
Some times flood control measures can actually make things worse, nature built flood plains on rivers, so any excess water would spread out over a huge region, maybe only increasing the river level a few feet, but as soon as you build barriers, all the water has to go down stream, thus moving the problem elsewhere.
I think building on flood plains should be banned, and whoever signed off the approval, should compensate the home owners. They should then allow the floods plains to do what they would do naturally.
There is a bit of a clue in the name of the area... "The lake district" and it does normally rain a lot up there, but on the last few occassions, they got a lot more rain than normal. This will happen again and again.
