Floods

[Champ]

Its fucking awful. Spoke to a fella from Dunfermline today who said main roads have been closed to cars and can only be used by buses. The forth bridge is closed so traffics fucked anyway. Then this evening a housing officer from cockermouth in cumbria (that name still cracks me up) who said it is beyond comparison how bad it is there. 

 

I told them both it was blue skies on the south coast today. 

 

Never heard of no flooding in Dunfermline. And roads closed to cars but not buses. Sounds a bit fishy to me

[Guest Pistonbroke]

The weather is certainly playing up again, we had 16°C over here yesterday and it was 24°C in the Sun. Back to shitty rain and 6°C today. 

[Strontium]

The biggest factor in flooding in Cumbria is sheep farming. If left to nature, that whole area would be forested. That in itself would probably be enough to slow the flow of water and prevent floods. But that's not going to happen any time soon.

[Rico1304]

I've just swerved being part of our Emergency Response Team, to be fair the people of Cumbria have been through enough without me trying to 'help'.

[Bjornebye]

The biggest factor in flooding in Cumbria is sheep farming. If left to nature, that whole area would be forested. That in itself would probably be enough to slow the flow of water and prevent floods. But that's not going to happen any time soon.

 

Are you laying blame again?

[magicrat]

The biggest factor in flooding in Cumbria is sheep farming. If left to nature, that whole area would be forested. That in itself would probably be enough to slow the flow of water and prevent floods. But that's not going to happen any time soon.

 

Jesus those bastards back in the 18th Century have a lot to answer for.

[Bobby Hundreds]

The biggest factor in flooding in Cumbria is sheep farming. If left to nature, that whole area would be forested. That in itself would probably be enough to slow the flow of water and prevent floods. But that's not going to happen any time soon.

 

Bring back wolves I say. I wanna see ramblers really ramble.

[Kloppite]

Don't see why people are so surprised or shocked it is the fucking Lake District after all. A few more lakes and as per usual shit loads of rain in the wettest county in the country. Probably have a hose pipe ban next year.

[VladimirIlyich]

Fucking Desmond is causing a real mare. 

 

Was planning to travel up to Edinburgh on Friday and I'm waiting to see if there's any way National Rail will be able to fix any of the lines via Carlisle or via Newcastle before then. Looks like I may have to take the car and head up the east coast. 

 

Oh, and it's dead shit that half of the country has turned into the fucking sea. 

 

Desmond is a cunt. 

Why are you blaming me?

 

 

[Stouffer]

 

There's not many sheep in the centre of Carlisle.

[cloggypop]

You'd think sheep would help soak it up.

[Anubis]

You'd think sheep would help soak it up.

If you pack them together tightly enough you can build an emergency flood barrier.

[Elite]

The biggest cause of flooding is water.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

There's not many sheep in the centre of Carlisle.

Not now they're all drownded.

[stringvest]

There's not many sheep in the centre of Carlisle.

 

the locals now have to drive to those out-of-town shagging centres.

[chris71]

Mate of mine had his house flooded in 2009 got it all fixed up , raised the the floor and had barriers installed to stop a repeat and last weekend flooded again.

Not sure what the poor bastard will do now. No one would insure the place after the last one and he can't sell it. It must be soul destroying to know if you fix it up it's just a matter of time before being hit again.

[Bjornebye]

Just watching the news, is anyone affected by these? Looks awful. 

[Remmie]

5 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Just watching the news, is anyone affected by these? Looks awful. 

My shoes got a bit muddy from some puddle splash.

[cloggypop]

It's fucking raining in the pub in Leiden here. 

[Evelyn Tentions]

Some horrible floods in Australia. All the ashes of the incinerated plants and animals are now washing into the rivers  and killing the fish.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/15/last-population-macquarie-perch-nsw-river-carnage-bushfire-ash-fish-species

[ZonkoVille77]

"I love the smell of extinction in the morning "

[Stickman]

As Johnny Rotten famously said "ever get the feeling you've been cheated "

 

Although with a name like Vic Haddock I would have thought he'd be happy with a bit of flooding

 

 

 

[Dougie Do'ins]

1 hour ago, Stickman said:

As Johnny Rotten famously said "ever get the feeling you've been cheated "

 

Although with a name like Vic Haddock I would have thought he'd be happy with a bit of flooding

 

 

 

Seen him on the news yesterday saying he'd done his bit by voting Tory. Now he'd like to see his mate Boris pay a visit and do his bit and he'd buy him a pint.

 

A £100bn + has just been earmarked for a railway that wont be much better than what we already have now while peanuts are given to flood victims. And this prick wants to buy him a pint. 

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

6 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Seen him on the news yesterday saying he'd done his bit by voting Tory. Now he'd like to see his mate Boris pay a visit and do his bit and he'd buy him a pint.

 

A £100bn + has just been earmarked for a railway that wont be much better than what we already have now while peanuts are given to flood victims. And this prick wants to buy him a pint. 

 

 

He's getting exactly what he voted for. Shouldn't he be looking after himself like Tories are always espousing? Build a boat if you are stuck and show that entrepreneurial spirit.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Imagine being affected by the floods and you had to listen to that cunt.