Flood victims want guarantees!
Discussion
singlecoil said:
Just on the BBC lunchtimes news, the quote above.
Well, I'll give them a guarantee........
It's going to happen again!
Maybe not tomorrow (although maybe it will) but sometime, probably sooner than they would like.
F*ck them. What steps have any of these idiots taken to ensure they've waterproofed their houses? Jack sh*t! Well, I'll give them a guarantee........
It's going to happen again!
Maybe not tomorrow (although maybe it will) but sometime, probably sooner than they would like.
There's plenty of proprietory products out there to see to it that water stays out of their houses but they're too thick, idle or dumb to do anything about it. Meanwhile, my insurance premiums go up each year to pay for these stupid tw@ts.
Andy Zarse said:
singlecoil said:
Just on the BBC lunchtimes news, the quote above.
Well, I'll give them a guarantee........
It's going to happen again!
Maybe not tomorrow (although maybe it will) but sometime, probably sooner than they would like.
F*ck them. What steps have any of these idiots taken to ensure they've waterproofed their houses? Jack sh*t! Well, I'll give them a guarantee........
It's going to happen again!
Maybe not tomorrow (although maybe it will) but sometime, probably sooner than they would like.
There's plenty of proprietory products out there to see to it that water stays out of their houses but they're too thick, idle or dumb to do anything about it. Meanwhile, my insurance premiums go up each year to pay for these stupid tw@ts.
These people wont be insurable or able to afford the hiked premiums... so dont worry Jack your premiums wont be affected !!
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tsinglecoil said:
anonymous said:
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No, this was BBC1, so much more middle class victim-wiseIt pisses me off to be honest when others simply flood and then trot out the line:
"someone should pay for this!"
Why FFS, I pay... Can't sell my house and am f
ked due to the flood issues. It beggars belief when I hear some of ths stories whereby people whinge on and bought a cheap house on a flood plain and then didnt insure the bloody thing. 
Edited by Slaav on Tuesday 9th September 01:00
Before you all get up on your high horses, flood proofing a house is not as easy as you might think (houses are intrinsically leaky) and quickly gets very very expensive (that nice patio window can easily cost a few grand to protect), and the flood zones are much larger than they used to be due to poor management of drainage and large scale flood defense systems.
People who bought houses on hills are finding their toilets overflowing - not quite the 'lowest house in the village with the doors open' stuff there.
That said:
1) I do wish people would just learn to accept that sometimes sh*t happens, and sometimes there isn't someone you can blame or claim off.
2) The builders who used their legal teams to get permission to build estates on flood risk areas should also be prosecuted.
3) The loons who drive their cars through feet deep floods expecting everything to be ok get no sympathy whatsoever.
People who bought houses on hills are finding their toilets overflowing - not quite the 'lowest house in the village with the doors open' stuff there.
That said:
1) I do wish people would just learn to accept that sometimes sh*t happens, and sometimes there isn't someone you can blame or claim off.
2) The builders who used their legal teams to get permission to build estates on flood risk areas should also be prosecuted.
3) The loons who drive their cars through feet deep floods expecting everything to be ok get no sympathy whatsoever.
Slaav, I'm genuinely curious whether you knew or checked the flood-potential when you bought your house. It seems as though you take your own responsibilities seriously which is heartening, but as has been commented upon, so many people buy in ignorance then blame everyone else.
I bought my first house largely in ignorance, but struck lucky. I bought next to a small brook but one which didn't threaten my house. However, one year we witnessed a fair bit of our county submerged which raised our general consciousness about flooding. When we bought our current house the lack of any potential for flooding was high on our agenda. We're now near to the top of a hill. If we got flooded-out, London would have disappeared completely (sparking some really entertaining thoughts/wishes).
I bought my first house largely in ignorance, but struck lucky. I bought next to a small brook but one which didn't threaten my house. However, one year we witnessed a fair bit of our county submerged which raised our general consciousness about flooding. When we bought our current house the lack of any potential for flooding was high on our agenda. We're now near to the top of a hill. If we got flooded-out, London would have disappeared completely (sparking some really entertaining thoughts/wishes).
I found this a little amusing too. It's pretty symptomatic of the "there must be somebody else I can blame" attitude we see in this country. Sorry, sounded a bit Daily Mail there, but you get my meaning...
I've been back home in the Westcountry over the weekend in an area that got a lot of rain. There weren't any problems because it's all old houses and the rivers have always shown a tendancy to flood at certain points and you don't build there. The flood plains looked like lakes and some of the low lying roads required a bit of wading (no problem for a Land Rover!) but the houses were all high and dry.
I've been back home in the Westcountry over the weekend in an area that got a lot of rain. There weren't any problems because it's all old houses and the rivers have always shown a tendancy to flood at certain points and you don't build there. The flood plains looked like lakes and some of the low lying roads required a bit of wading (no problem for a Land Rover!) but the houses were all high and dry.
We're right on the edge of a flood plain and sat watching the flood reports on TV looking around thinking what we'd take upstairs first (my motoring books), which stuff we'd put up on the tables (electrical items), what low-value items didn't matter (stuff in the kitchen cupboards) and so on.
When a TV reporter shows soggy photo albums and talks of 'family memories gone forever' I wonder if any effort was made to rescue them. I'm damned if I'll let my home get ruined without trying to do something to save my most precious belongings.
When a TV reporter shows soggy photo albums and talks of 'family memories gone forever' I wonder if any effort was made to rescue them. I'm damned if I'll let my home get ruined without trying to do something to save my most precious belongings.
Puff Puff said:
We're right on the edge of a flood plain and sat watching the flood reports on TV looking around thinking what we'd take upstairs first (my motoring books), which stuff we'd put up on the tables (electrical items), what low-value items didn't matter (stuff in the kitchen cupboards) and so on.
When a TV reporter shows soggy photo albums and talks of 'family memories gone forever' I wonder if any effort was made to rescue them. I'm damned if I'll let my home get ruined without trying to do something to save my most precious belongings.
When a TV reporter shows soggy photo albums and talks of 'family memories gone forever' I wonder if any effort was made to rescue them. I'm damned if I'll let my home get ruined without trying to do something to save my most precious belongings.
My old Aunt used to live in a house that flooded every few years, every winter she shifted all her most precious things upstairs, took up the carpet, and put the furniture on bricks. She did this as a matter of course.
It's what people used to do before the nation became a population of infantilised morons who sit around watching their own house flood and waiting for someone else to "do something about it"
In short I blame Tony Blair. ( and Brown, and Prescott ).
Andy Zarse said:
singlecoil said:
Just on the BBC lunchtimes news, the quote above.
Well, I'll give them a guarantee........
It's going to happen again!
Maybe not tomorrow (although maybe it will) but sometime, probably sooner than they would like.
F*ck them. What steps have any of these idiots taken to ensure they've waterproofed their houses? Jack sh*t! Well, I'll give them a guarantee........
It's going to happen again!
Maybe not tomorrow (although maybe it will) but sometime, probably sooner than they would like.
There's plenty of proprietory products out there to see to it that water stays out of their houses but they're too thick, idle or dumb to do anything about it. Meanwhile, my insurance premiums go up each year to pay for these stupid tw@ts.
There are some really nice houses alonsige a small river here (I think the flow through the river is actively managed), with almost no difference in height between river and river bank. I've often wondered if you could actually build in reliable flood defences in these houses and gardens, external steel roller shutters on doors and windows for example, or stronger glass in double glazing etc.
BOR said:
There are some really nice houses alonsige a small river here (I think the flow through the river is actively managed), with almost no difference in height between river and river bank. I've often wondered if you could actually build in reliable flood defences in these houses and gardens, external steel roller shutters on doors and windows for example, or stronger glass in double glazing etc.
A friend of mine lives an an old thatched cottage that has minor flood risks - he's installed a moat-like gutter system round the house to divert water around it. Not sure if it's been fully tested yet though.
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