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Flooding - A National Emergency.
Time for the government to step up and if necessary increase taxes to help the poor victims of flooding.
I would happily pay more, would you?
I would happily pay more, would you?
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How many times can you happily pay more for all the different pay more areas in life?
Where I do think flood defences should be better it is impossible to protect everyone. That’s a simple fact of life.
We forget we are not omnipotent. We are just people and we cannot make the tide stop as King Canute tried to do.
For the most part we forget that we are at the mercy of the eliments. We put on a coat when it gets a bit chilly, up goes the umbrella when it rains, the fire switches on when its cold. But the eliments are a cruel master that we thought we were master of.
The extinction rebellion lot will say this is all about climate change, and it might be, but we have had bouts of treacherous and excessive weather before and we’ll have it again.
I haven’t an answer other than look at the flood planes and live accordingly.
Where I do think flood defences should be better it is impossible to protect everyone. That’s a simple fact of life.
We forget we are not omnipotent. We are just people and we cannot make the tide stop as King Canute tried to do.
For the most part we forget that we are at the mercy of the eliments. We put on a coat when it gets a bit chilly, up goes the umbrella when it rains, the fire switches on when its cold. But the eliments are a cruel master that we thought we were master of.
The extinction rebellion lot will say this is all about climate change, and it might be, but we have had bouts of treacherous and excessive weather before and we’ll have it again.
I haven’t an answer other than look at the flood planes and live accordingly.
Dredge waterways and estuaries, stop spivs building on flood-prone land, bin vanity projects that drain the lifeblood from the country, put 'save the vole' type stuff on the back burner and so on and so on until equilibrium is restored.
I'm sure all this is actually in hand under the banner 'working inCREDibly hard' though so we can look forward to a brighter future with dry feet and a rosy future.
I'm sure all this is actually in hand under the banner 'working inCREDibly hard' though so we can look forward to a brighter future with dry feet and a rosy future.
There are many appeals set up to which we can donate if wished, some are local but a search such find them.
Here's just one.
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Here's just one.
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Individual donations -fine. No, I wouldn't increase taxes. Better management is needed. I lived in the Calder valley for a short while (Mytholmroyd, but up the hill above) and there are lots of contributing factors. Far too many for ne to go into here, but can I start with telling you that all the old pack-horse trails and the places they had as centres (e.g. Heptonstall - up the hill above Hebden Bridge) were on the tops of the hills? The valleys were even then classed as too dangerous). The old, Victorian, clay land-drains on the hills have been let go … that's just the start.... sweeling (burning controlled heather-breaks) needs to continue to stimulate the heather ground-cover with its roots (weirdos said it should be stopped) etc., etc.. Mismanagement most of the way and that's down to councils.
How do I know? My first husband was a drainage engineer in Calderdale for many years. He left me in no
doubt about the ineptitude and parsimony of the council at the time. It may be different now, of course.
How do I know? My first husband was a drainage engineer in Calderdale for many years. He left me in no
doubt about the ineptitude and parsimony of the council at the time. It may be different now, of course.
Absolutely no need to increase taxes to sort this out. We somehow manage to give away an astonishing 14 BILLION pounds in foreign aid every year, come what may, much of it to crackpot, corrupt regimes. I would half that and spend it on our own infrastucture: flood defences, fixing potholes, improving provincial train services, particularly in the north, maybe even a non-PFI hospital or two.... And so on.
There's no reason we should be obliged to give away 0.7% of GDP, just because someone somewhere came up with that figure, and someone somewhere said we should sign up to it.
There's no reason we should be obliged to give away 0.7% of GDP, just because someone somewhere came up with that figure, and someone somewhere said we should sign up to it.
We should not use taxpayers money to compensate people whose houses get flooded.
But we should a fund to sue builders and developers.
They often build on flood plains (or flat areas with a history of flooding). Previous instances of the plot being flooded (old photographs or contemporaneous old stories) are ignored and planning permission getting granted, on sites that have a history of flooding.
A fund to sue those responsible would deter developers from building on cheap (but dangerous land).
But we should a fund to sue builders and developers.
They often build on flood plains (or flat areas with a history of flooding). Previous instances of the plot being flooded (old photographs or contemporaneous old stories) are ignored and planning permission getting granted, on sites that have a history of flooding.
A fund to sue those responsible would deter developers from building on cheap (but dangerous land).
it appears many homeowners thought they were covered by government-backed insurance, ony to find they aren't
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Even for those that cannot (rather than will not) buy insurance, there's plenty of affordable domestic flood protection products available.
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