Comments on: Good news for all you folks in Sheffield, Hull and Glouester

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:56:37 +0000

Well, in that case, there is no problem, according to the Environment Agency flood maps, the Tower is not at risk of flooding.

This is not going to be a one off cost, the east coast is sinking slowly and there is a general rise in sea levels. William The Conquerer was smart enough to place his critical military infrastructure above the flood plain.

If fools build places like Linx where they are at risk, then let the fools pay for protecting them. Canvey Island flooded in 1791, 1881, 1897 and (in spite of improved sea defences) in 1953, so why build an oil refinery there?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:49:46 +0000

Possibly?

It just strikes me that the cost of letting central London flood would still be enormous. I think it would be quite sad to see places like the Tower of London swept away, compared with The Deep.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 21:12:57 +0000

Wouldn’t it be better to relocate all the critical infrastructure (e.g. Linx) somewhere which isn’t on flood plain and once that is done, take a cool look at what is really necessary?

By: Chris (portico)

Chris (portico) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:40:17 +0000

Reading wasn’t flooded as far a I could tell!!!!

But to be honest if I had £20bn to spend protecting London or Sheffield/Hull/Gloucester it would be London every single time for many, many reasons. None of this investment is to protect homes, it is to protect business and the economy and I would suggest that London has a bigger economic impact than Hull.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:11:18 +0000

How quickly indeed, Clare. When Mum (Reading) was telling me (Sheffield) about the floods she’d experienced, the used the phase “you’ve never seen anything like it!” On pointing out that actually… she dismissed my claims as if due to a bit of rain in Sheffield I didn’t quite appreciate the extent to which Reading had been ‘really’ flooded. This was from my own mother.

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:05:56 +0000

We had the river level lowered here specially for the Festival!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:46:28 +0000

You just wait until those Londoners stop the water from draining down the Thames and make it spill over higher up river.

By: Alison

Alison — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:25:53 +0000

You provincial types have got such chips on your shoulders

By: emma

emma — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 12:58:21 +0000

roflmao

*wipes a tear*

Oh yes, that’s a vast improvement to the London streets.

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:50:26 +0000

How quickly things get forgotten! When we were on holiday during the first week of the Gloucestershire ’situation’ we managed to know what was happening from the news for only 3 days…then it went quiet and I had to phone friends to know what was going on.