Floods

[solo]

Not a sight of one. Bone dry and the sun is shining. BUT, I bet my insurance premiums increase to help pay for the vastly inflated claims of all those people stupid enough to live near a river that is likely to over flow the moment a few extra overweight ducks decide to alight on it's surface. Make them rebuild the properties on stilts is what I say.

 

[ColJack]

and for those who live nowhere near a river but who are flooded anyway due to drainage systems being massively overwhelmed from the freak weather we're having?

every new house should be 3 storeys... the ground floor being garaging and non essential rooms only ( drying room, kids play room, pool room etc.. )

 

[Softus]

Why so resentful solo?

Most of the things we pay for are costed in such a way that the resources of the many pay for the needs of the few, and it's not a bad system IMHO.

 

[solo]

I was bored. Just trying to get a rise. I'll go now. Apologies to all who were flooded.

 

[pjholybloke]

Why so resentful solo?

Most of the things we pay for are costed in such a way that the resources of the many pay for the needs of the few, and it's not a bad system IMHO.

Now that's a turn up! I had you down for a plebeian Softus, turns out you have an aristocratic bent - or have I been sucked in by a particularly sardonic Softus post - you mischevious f****r.

 

[oilman]

Now that's a turn up! I had you down for a plebeian Softus, turns out you have an aristocratic bent - .............

Hardly aristocratic, if so, in what way. Seems more like a socialist view to me, and noting to do with these toffs who call themselves Socialist.

To get back to the floods, though, it must be historically common for there to be floods around the Worcestershire/Gloucestershire area. After all most of us will have heard, if not learnt:

Doctor Foster went to Gloucester,
In a shower of rain,
He stepped in a puddle,
Right up to his middle,
And never went there again.

Perhaps there's some truth in what we were taught.