Always live on a hill

[EddieM]

Always knew my theory was sound!! Feel a bit for the folk that are flooded though, esp as their house value has just halved!!

 

[joe-90]

I know someone on a hill that gets flooded in heavy rain - through the back door and out through the front. Runs down the hill like a river.

 

[Diane2]

I know someone on a hill that gets flooded in heavy rain - through the back door and out through the front. Runs down the hill like a river.

good point well made.....surely water off the hills must come down....it can't go up....any houses on the hill will get flooded..

 

[Deleted member 174758]

I know someone on a hill that gets flooded in heavy rain - through the back door and out through the front. Runs down the hill like a river.

There were some houses like that in Hebden Bridge this year - got on the TV news.

 

[EddieM]

Certainly could happen, but much less likely. I have a stream at the bottom of the garden, but I reckon that's unlikely to cause a problem as the house is about 20 feet above it.

 

[joinerjohn]

I worked on a house refurb some years ago (this was on a bit of a slope) after a week of extremely heavy rain, we noticed the floorboards seemed to be very wet. Upon lifting one, we found the void underneath, full of water. Turned out the air bricks at the lower end of the slope the building was on, were blocked with leaves.

 

[^woody^]

Feel a bit for the folk that are flooded though, esp as their house value has just halved!!

F*** em.

They chose to live there. Take the rough with the smooth.

A good percentage of my council tax was siphoned off over the years, to pay for flood defence work to high spending councils around the country.

We'll hear a lot of whinging and whining, but what are those affected home and business owners going to do about it in terms of their local decision makers and agencies? Jack all normally

 

[EddieM]

Feel a bit for the folk that are flooded though, esp as their house value has just halved!!

F*** em.

They chose to live there. Take the rough with the smooth.

A good percentage of my council tax was siphoned off over the years, to pay for flood defence work to high spending councils around the country.

We'll hear a lot of whinging and whining, but what are those affected home and business owners going to do about it in terms of their local decision makers and agencies? Jack all normally

yeah I agree.... I think!!

 

[Diane2]

it p*sses it it down a lot in this country......yet we are always shocked when it does......cleaning the drains, grids, and gutters would be a start......

its pelting it down in Blackpool right now...

 

[^woody^]

It annoys me when people moan about overflowing drains, or rivers bursting their banks or new developments causing over capacity to drainage infrastructure, and more surface water run-off.

All of these have a technical solution, or have been directly caused by the local council allowing development without investment ... and charging their local ratepayers for the work necessary.

These people want to live in those locations, but don't want to pay high community charges for the necessary work

There is also the issue of accountability. People will vote for councillors that support poxy schemes, but not bother about sorting out what matters

 

[Diane2]

we have a lot of water in Blackpool

 

[conny]

we have a lot of water in Blackpool

Yeah, pools of the stuff and its all black.
Hence the name.

 

[Deleted member 174758]

we have a lot of water in Blackpool

Yes, dear, but that's the sea!

 

[conny]

we have a lot of water in Blackpool

Yes, dear, but that's the sea!

Or maybe she's thinking of the rides like the log flume?

 

[pred]

It annoys me when people moan about overflowing drains, or rivers bursting their banks or new developments causing over capacity to drainage infrastructure, and more surface water run-off.

All of these have a technical solution, or have been directly caused by the local council allowing development without investment ... and charging their local ratepayers for the work necessary.

These people want to live in those locations, but don't want to pay high community charges for the necessary work

There is also the issue of accountability. People will vote for councillors that support poxy schemes, but not bother about sorting out what matters

If it's a new development as you say, people will be unaware of the risk, if i were to buy such a house then i would think surely the necessary checks had been carried out..