Flooding

[RonnieTodger]

I’ve just seen Great Glen. Looks horrendous.

[CosbehFox]

Amazingly somehow Littlethorpe/Narborough station hasn't flooded this morning - does make you wonder how much is down to the drainage as they had extensive repairs after the last flood and it appears to have worked. 

 

Alas Cosby is as good as an island and saw flooding in Sharnford I'd never seen before

 

 

Edited 6 January by CosbehFox

[Fox92]

39 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

I am right in saying you are Sheffield based? Seems familiar form what you may have previously said…

I'm Chesterfield based. Think the peak district takes most of the hit but we often have spells of snow and the occasional flood.

[Footballwipe]

Nasty combo of record rainfalls over recent months, snow and then the massive rain last night (certainly in my area anyway).

 

I know it's easy to blame the drains and new homes, but when the ground is completely sodden the water has nowhere to go. The sheer breadth of the issue highlights that it's not just going to just be the drains (though I'm not sitting here saying that drains aren't to blame today, just that it's definitely not the sole cause of what we're seeing today.)

 

Besides, as has been said in the past, even if every drain was clear and clean, the sheer quantity of water in some areas mean they wouldn't be able to cope anyway.

 

Unfortunately Facebook groups will continue to blame everything but climate change, which is a huge driver of this.

[grobyfox1990]

How long until areas become uninsurable, Gov have to step in and be the insurer of last resort and costs spiral to actual infinity. At least there will be enough case studies of this happening in the US first to do the modelling off of. Should be criminal convictions for policymakers who said achieving net zero will be too expensive and burdensome, when it does happen 

[VLC86]

58 minutes ago, CosbehFox said:

Amazingly somehow Littlethorpe/Narborough station hasn't flooded this morning - does make you wonder how much is down to the drainage as they had extensive repairs after the last flood and it appears to have worked. 

 

Alas Cosby is as good as an island and saw flooding in Sharnford I'd never seen before

 

 

The train crossing at Narborough usually floods, wouldn’t shock me if that kicks in later  on.

 

Re blockages, not sure how true it is but I heard that Farmers used to be paid to help keep them inblocked and they no longer do.

 

It’s genuinely horrendous around this way all the time now. Crow Mills floods whenever there is mild rain.

[LFEFox23]

Whetstone and Cosby is under water, avoid if you can!

[Lako42]

At least the outlook is dry or we would be in a world of pain

[Daggers]

39 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

How long until areas become uninsurable, Gov have to step in and be the insurer of last resort and costs spiral to actual infinity. At least there will be enough case studies of this happening in the US first to do the modelling off of. Should be criminal convictions for policymakers who said achieving net zero will be too expensive and burdensome, when it does happen 

Or, homeowners could actually take responsibility for their decisions to buy a house liable to flooding by installing proper defences?

[VLC86]

3 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Or, homeowners could actually take responsibility for their decisions to buy a house liable to flooding by installing proper defences?

Houses that are flooding in my area have never flooded until this time last year so it’s really not as easy as saying that.

[urban.spaceman]

Lived in Rearsby for more than 25 years and this is the worst I've ever seen it.

[Trav Le Bleu]

My bro-in-law is a maintenance guy for a group of nurseries. There's a brook run near one and because a nearby house building an extension chucked their waste in there, the brook has flooded into the nursery. 

[Vowels]

57 minutes ago, grobyfox1990 said:

How long until areas become uninsurable, Gov have to step in and be the insurer of last resort and costs spiral to actual infinity. At least there will be enough case studies of this happening in the US first to do the modelling off of. Should be criminal convictions for policymakers who said achieving net zero will be too expensive and burdensome, when it does happen 

This actually exists for residential risks / consumer business. Flood re.

 

 

[Tuna]

Play close in Melton is like a boating lake.

 

A1 closed north and south of where I am near Grantham as well.

 

Not nice!

[Bellend Sebastian]

I'm going to glue myself to one of the roads that are still open

[urban.spaceman]

Rearsby.

 

I literally drove that road in the foreground at 11 last night; the brook was quite low, almost a metre lower I'd say.

 

[grobyfox1990]

34 minutes ago, Daggers said:

Or, homeowners could actually take responsibility for their decisions to buy a house liable to flooding by installing proper defences?

That's not going to happen. The taxpayer pays for people to switch the heating on amongst vast amounts of other consumer assistance benefits. 

[grobyfox1990]

20 minutes ago, Vowels said:

This actually exists for residential risks / consumer business. Flood re.

 

 

Don't really know what Flood re is. are they aren't an insurer of last resort? As in when you cannot get a policy from anyone else in the market

[Izzy]

It's the golfers who's courses are shut because of the floods that I feel sorry for.

[The Syrup]

56 minutes ago, Tuna said:

Play close in Melton is like a boating lake.

 

A1 closed north and south of where I am near Grantham as well.

 

Not nice!

A tractor and trailer full of sheep has tipped over on the Leicester St / Wilton Rd junction in Melton now. Ironically it crashed next to the old sheep wash slope into the river next to play close. That's Melton ground to a halt now and live sheep roaming about the town

[reporterpenguin]

Horrendous here near Market Bosworth.

 

This is what the river/stream usually looks like.

 

This is what it looks like now.

[isaidno]

3 minutes ago, The Syrup said:

A tractor and trailer full of sheep has tipped over on the Leicester St / Wilton Rd junction in Melton now. Ironically it crashed next to the old sheep wash slope into the river next to play close. That's Melton ground to a halt now and live sheep roaming about the town

I've just tried to drive through that. Had to abandon and come home.

[Zear0]

1 minute ago, isaidno said:

I've just tried to drive through that. Had to abandon and come home.

Lucky sheep get to live another day!

[Tuna]

7 minutes ago, The Syrup said:

A tractor and trailer full of sheep has tipped over on the Leicester St / Wilton Rd junction in Melton now. Ironically it crashed next to the old sheep wash slope into the river next to play close. That's Melton ground to a halt now and live sheep roaming about the town

 

1 minute ago, isaidno said:

I've just tried to drive through that. Had to abandon and come home.

Crikey

[goose2010]

2 hours ago, Facecloth said:

Gone from Loughborough to Atherstone today. Too an hour answer 45 minutes, for what's normally a 40-45 minute drive.

 

Should have turned round the moment I i saw the crossroads at the Spartan chipshop was flooded. Ended up crawling down the A42/M42 and A5. Going home A5, M69 and M1 i think.

avoid the M1, M69 junction it was under water this morning and pretty sure the police were going to close it as it was ridiculous. Check before you leave! 

 

I did Hinckley to Tamworth and took nearly 2 hours. Flooding just before Mira on the A5 and then further up near Holly Lane roundabout.