Are we as a country going to have to start thinking differently?
The current flooding in the north of England is the third time in a fairly short space of time that some have copped it.
It must be devastating to have that happen to your home once.. but three times?
Trouble is, the bigger picture is weather change. How many times can you re-build a home and make it exactly like it was?
Is there not a case for, as a minimum, sockets being at waist height, bare tiled floors with movable rugs, expensive white goods up much higher, etc....in some countries houses are built on stilts, could we not build stuff whereby the ground floor is just parking, so you move the car elsewhere if there's a storm coming in...
.... then there's the inevitability of some places having to be given up on if it keeps happening.
Surely there's only so much the Environment Agency can do if our weather has or is changing.... not that i'm saying they've necessarily done enough currently.. just that in some cases it'll be a lost cause or doing so much still won't be enough or will just cause problems somewhere else.
Have we allowed too much house building in places they shouldn't have been built? How many times do you see an old church flooded, they seemed to put them on the higher ground usually?
Last edited by: Westpig on Sat 26 Dec 15 at 22:33
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