Poor People On The Levels

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26446645

My heart goes out to these poor people. I can't imagine coming home and find my house in the appalling mess that these people have. All that mud and raw sewerage ! A life changing experience no doubt.

[ummmm]

Looks horrendous. Poor people :-(

[rockyracoon]

Jeez, where would you even begin with that clear up :(

[jno]

side issue really, but how did it get a name like Moorland? I thought moors were usually upland areas?

[boxtops]

I have every sympathy for them, but what did they expect to find? IMO the whole country could see the water damage and the floating sewage. It must be devastating.

[rockyracoon]

I dare say they were expecting it but actually confronting it must be dreadful, imagine the smell?

[mushroom25]

//side issue really, but how did it get a name like Moorland?//

the "levels" are the marine clay based coastal areas; the inland areas and mainly peat based and are therefore more correctly called "moors".

[askyourgran]

I feel sorry for them too. Knowing that your home has been defiled in that way, the cost of replacement and the thought that no-one would want to buy it would make me ill. Drastic measures will have to be taken to stop it happening again. Where is all the aid for them?

[ToraToraTora]

"Where is all the aid for them?" - the governement gave it to foriegn countries.

[jno]

thanks, mushroom

[Canary42]

////"Where is all the aid for them?" - the Government gave it to foreign countries.////

For two reasons. Firstly they are unlikely to be Tory voters (unlike the Surrey Suburbia sufferers). Secondly foreign aid returns as trade (Profits before people is the Tory Mantra after all).

[mushroom25]

yes, Canary - i'm willing to bet it was no co-incidence that notwithstanding the weeks of flooding endured by Somerset, it wasn't until Mrs Miggins of Datchet lost her fluffy carpets that Mr Cameron finally declared "money no object".

[New Judge]

"Firstly they are unlikely to be Tory voters"

Bridgewater and West Somerset returned a Tory MP with a 9,200 majority over the LibDems.

Wells returned a LibDem MP with a slim majority of 800 over the Tories.

“Secondly foreign aid returns as trade “

Thirdly salmon live in trees and eat pencils for lunch.

[viv38]

If I lived there, I'd be terrified it would happen again next winter and the winter after ....... Poor souls.